any good ideas for a home vocal booth that doesn't upset my downstairs neighbours
Short of having only Aretha Franklin sing in it and asking your downstairs neighbors to sit in on the sessions, or moving to an apartment building built with Flexicore floors, there's probably not much you can do.any good ideas for a home vocal booth that doesn't upset my downstairs neighbours
Short of having only Aretha Franklin sing in it and asking your downstairs neighbors to sit in on the sessions, or moving to an apartment building built with Flexicore floors, there's probably not much you can do.
The closet idea might help if you laid down 1/2" steel plate on the whole closet floor and covered that with a "floating floor" made of hardwood or other stiff material that "floated" on rubber pads between it and the steel. Problem is unless you also float or de-couple the stud walls of the closet/booth from the floor, you'll still get transferrence that way. Whether it'll still be enough to bug your neighbors depends on how sensitive they are and how good your voice is.
if you want to find out more about floating floors, vocal booths or acoustic design in general, check out these books. But you're probably better off either killing your neighbors and renting their apartment yourself, or finding a bandmate's house or a rehersal space to do you recording in.
G.
I assume you mean Rod Gervais' book (any relation to Ricky Gervais? )? Yeah that guy knows his stuff when it comes to construction and acoustics. Good book to have in the studio library, for sure.Nice to see Rod´s book in your recommendations!
I assume you mean Rod Gervais' book (any relation to Ricky Gervais? )? Yeah that guy knows his stuff when it comes to construction and acoustics. Good book to have in the studio library, for sure.
That particular book might be a bit of overkill for this particular thread; not a whole lot of budget DIY or small-scale focus to that book, but one can always apply the larger principles and name-brand info to more generic and coloquial purposes. Glad you liked it too .
G.