Cheap Vocal Booth

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Hang or prop up a heavy blanket (or 2) . Ive nailed mine to the celing (probably dont want to do that),to make a small covered area (roughly 3'x3') for the singer and mic. About as cheap as it gets.
 
Walk-in closet and the blankets that moving companies use. They are great for absorbing. Before I built a studio, I used to keep them in the closet and duct-taped hangers to them. I also had 4 hooks on the ceiling to hang one there.

Oh, and leave all the clothes in the closet too. The more absorbtion, the better. :)
 
check out the studio construction section theres loads of ideas on the subject in there.
 
I rigged up a vocal "booth" that was about 4' x 6' using rods and used drapery (which simply looked much nicer than packing blankets), My studio area had a drop down ceiling with accoustic tiles - so I bought a bunch of clamps used to hanga plants from ceiling tile grids and attached the rods to them.

I was able to slid open and close different sections both to help visual contact and to achieve different accoustc effects. It provided reasonably effective sound dampening, was portable and was cosmetically attractive.

I now have an actual vocal "room" in my new studio - but the curtains works for many years.
 
I saw a nice sytem (that i am actually working to acquire for myself now) from a guy i know who had a decent studio built into an outbuilding on his property. he has the whole room treated with various bass traps and acoustic foam, and has a number of large panels with foam glued to the blue insulatory foam that you would used to clad the outside of a house in construction. I have no idea how the blue foam would rate for noise absorption, so don't misread that-- it may only be marginally effective. But they do create a nice mobile "wall" with 2-4inches of acoustic foam that he can set up into a small room within his room, and i think these were 4' x 8' and when i saw them, he had a fairly large space set up for them, to record hand drums, room for two people to sit and play in with at least another layer of semi-isolation and some degree of absorption.

He is liquidating the studio now, so I am looking to get at least some of these panels, combining with some serious home made bass traps of my own and making a (hopefully) nice semi-mobile booth for my space.

Daav
 
Cool.. You might research their firerating if you can...

Good luck...


daav said:
I saw a nice sytem (that i am actually working to acquire for myself now) from a guy i know who had a decent studio built into an outbuilding on his property. he has the whole room treated with various bass traps and acoustic foam, and has a number of large panels with foam glued to the blue insulatory foam that you would used to clad the outside of a house in construction. I have no idea how the blue foam would rate for noise absorption, so don't misread that-- it may only be marginally effective. But they do create a nice mobile "wall" with 2-4inches of acoustic foam that he can set up into a small room within his room, and i think these were 4' x 8' and when i saw them, he had a fairly large space set up for them, to record hand drums, room for two people to sit and play in with at least another layer of semi-isolation and some degree of absorption.

He is liquidating the studio now, so I am looking to get at least some of these panels, combining with some serious home made bass traps of my own and making a (hopefully) nice semi-mobile booth for my space.

Daav
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