Custom Made Recording Booth...

[satchvaisoul]

ok guys...this is kinda like the topic "cheap sound booth" but a little different....ok...i have a shop my parents bought me to move my room and all my gear into to get away from the house haha...ivv had it for a couple of months and i want to turn it into a recording studio...its 14 x 18 ft and it has a very tall ceiling and it has a bit of reverb in the shop..so could i make a booth out of plywood, pad it down on the inside....just big enough to fit a cab and a mic in there to prevent the mic from picking up the reverb? or should i split a section of my room off and put up walls and pad it down? see the reason for all of this is to record tracks of my bands new material and send it off for my other band members to write there parts for it because they live far off. but i want it to sound professional lol...any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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[starch]

If all you are doing is recording electric guitar, why don't you just put a mic (ie, sm57, md421, re20) up on the grill of the amp, then take a moving blanket ($20 max) or even a heavy blanket from around the house and cover the amp and mic to avoid any unwanted room noise? The room verb probably won't even be an issue if you are close micing the amp.

Are you planning on recording other instruments there also? If wo what? Are you recording to hard disk, tape, dat, digital multitrack? Why were you thinking you would need a booth?