How come vocal booths have lots of reflecting surfaces?

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Hi, i noticed that a lot of professional recordings are being made in vocal booths. and lots of times, i see that inside the booths there are a lot of reflecting surfaces. there is always glass (windows) and also bare wood. the surfaces are also parallel.

isn't parallel reflective surfaces bad for acoustics? is there something about the small size of the booth? what am i missing?
 
Depends.


Do you want a stale, perfectly clean recording with no anomalies and no contamination? You use a dead room with tons of absorption.


Do you want a full, thick sound with natural room reverberation and a real fat presence to the voice? You use a live room with good reverberation and real acoustic behavior.


It really depends. For certain stuff, you want absolutely clean source materials. For others, you can't really replicate or digitally enhance a track to get that truly live sound.
 
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