Feedback or Bad frequency when recording

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Hey dudes and dudettes, so I'm having an issue and I hope one of you fellow audiophiles can help me.

Here is my equipment:
Rode NT2A Microphone
Presonus Tube PreV2
Presonus Audiobox 44vsl
Recording on Ableton 8

The issue is I just built a home studio (Its a closet lined with acoustic foam with a blanket for a door, real professional stuff), I've been recording on home rigs my whole life and have never run into this problem. When recording vocals I am getting a frequency bounce or feedback from the microphone, I can find the bad frequency in the EQ but really want to find a way to get that out of my recordings. There is also a good deal of air in the tracks as well. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong in my set up? I usually set the gain of the tube preamp to about straight up and down, a few clicks up on the mic input and we're getting a beautiful wav form, but that frequency is killlllling me. I can upload a sample somewhere too if that would help. Thanks!
~Matt
 
This is one of so many reasons why "closet" does not equal "vocal booth" by any stretch (except in rap movies).

Well, that's assuming it's a "wooly resonance" as opposed to a "phasy screech" (at which point it could be a dozen different things, but likely how the signal is being routed).
 
Definitely would describe it as a "wooly resonance" for sure. Bear with me, what do you mean by signal routing?
 
The routing of the signal. Where the signal is going (and if there's a mult in that signal path or not, which would cause odd phasing).

Anyway -- It looks like the problem is probably the closet -- Which is normal. Closets suck. They're okay for noisy equipment. Otherwise, they're little resonant chambers. If you want to rip out all the drywall and fill the cavities with 703 or Roxul, you *MIGHT* get rid of it. Otherwise, keep in mind that a typical "vocal booth" is maybe 12x15 or bigger. Put the noisy gear in the closet.
 
Mookychew said:
The issue is I just built a home studio (Its a closet lined with acoustic foam with a blanket for a door, real professional stuff)
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I was going to say "Whatever you do, don't tell Massive !" but he got to you first.
Don't tell RAMI ! :D
 
Mic placement also has to do with this sort of problem..There are tons of youtube videos on this subject..Believe it or not the freq's change as you point the mic in different directions and angles...i would just experiment..Peace
 
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