How many of you use vocal booths?

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Who uses a vocal booth?

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How many MC's in here use vocal booths in their studio?
 
I dont have one,i rout my mic and cables to a different room,and just record there.Its a lot better on the space,but harder to sound proof/pad the whole room rather than just a little booth.I'm still thinking about padding up my closet instead of going in the other room.You should see me hitting record button and running to the other room,and as soon as i mess up,i run back...and so on and so on,lol :rolleyes:
 
Currently, I have a few blankets draped over one side of the room for me to record the vocals there, but it's kinda like what Pinachi said. If I screw up, I gotta pull the sheets over and run over to stop it and so on. I was lookin' for a Red Rover but couldn't find one used.

I'm currently saving up for some Auralex foam. Until then, I just use my home recorded vocals as a test and take the serious stuff to a real studio for the vocals and final mixdown.

-Springfield
 
this is what mine looks like when i decide to put it up

https://homerecording.com/bbs/attachment.php?attachmentid=4152


Only difference now is that the balnkets are doulbed up on the inside so you don't see the PVC pipe. And i hang a black light from the ceiling bar ( got that idea from Jug)

works pretty good for some of the room noises out.

Frontier Design put out a remote DAW controller so you can run your session from the booth. it cost $200 which is really good if it works like they suggest.
 
im planning to set up a makeshift wall behind me when i record, and drape blankets and such over it.
if it works right, it should cancel all the reflective noise heading towards the mic.
probably not as good as an entire booth, but better than nothing.
 
Hi_D_Ho_Man said:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/attachment.php?attachmentid=4152


Only difference now is that the balnkets are doulbed up on the inside so you don't see the PVC pipe. And i hang a black light from the ceiling bar ( got that idea from Jug)

works pretty good for some of the room noises out.

Frontier Design put out a remote DAW controller so you can run your session from the booth. it cost $200 which is really good if it works like they suggest.
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How is that working for you? I was thinking of having a dude build some type of booth for me, I am doing research on material an such. I have been without a booth since day one, I never felt the need because it's just for a little hobby. But then Pops pulled me aside the other day and was like "Son, if you're gonna do something, do it right!".....(He's a perfectionist but he's right) I finished my whole basment and I am looking to get one built. I was just curious about how many of you guys really don't care and are only interested in making the music.Because if I really felt that way, I wouldn't have ever invested in a good set of monitors.....That's my other question" Why get good monitors if your room isn't treated? It defeats the purpose! Right?
 
Right now I use my closet in the spare bedroom, but I'm working on plans to build a booth with foam, fiberglass, and sheetrock with a wood casing. Might set me back a little bit, but I'm willing to throw it down and put some work into it for experimentation's sake.
 
Trumpspade said:
How is that working for you? I was thinking of having a dude build some type of booth for me, I am doing research on material an such. I have been without a booth since day one, I never felt the need because it's just for a little hobby. But then Pops pulled me aside the other day and was like "Son, if you're gonna do something, do it right!".....(He's a perfectionist but he's right) I finished my whole basment and I am looking to get one built. I was just curious about how many of you guys really don't care and are only interested in making the music.Because if I really felt that way, I wouldn't have ever invested in a good set of monitors.....That's my other question" Why get good monitors if your room isn't treated? It defeats the purpose! Right?
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Trump 2 wrongs dont make a right :D
 
I dont use one and really I dont need one. Alot of times you can over do it and kill your vocal recording it's better to just sound treat your room for recording. If you cant treat your room then place your Mic in the middle of the room. Before I went to school I did the closet thing the blanket thing and payed for studio time where I recorded in a both. My recordings are better than all of those things I tried.
 
my 2cents,

vocal booths are great for creating your own environment from scratch, if you record in a room that's not treated you will get natural reverb. i'm not saying recording in an open room is bad at all, because i used to do that and i've heard plenty cd's done this way. there are a lot of people like MF Doom who just has his mic in the middle of his room for recording. for budget sake, if you don't mind the natural reverb go for it, but if you are a strictest or stickler and you want to shape raw vocals with no additives then, investing in an acoustically treated area is the way to go.

yeah, hitting record with the 10sec precount is some funny shit indeed, but it get's my blood pumping when i make it back to the booth, and since my vox were warmed up and now i'm warmed up i'm ready to slay the mic.

try getting a wireless keyboard and mouse, learn the short cut keys, or program your own short cut keys and you are set. just buy or build a stand to hold your computer keyboard waiste hight in or right outside the booth and you should be good. I don't know if the receiver will pick up the RF transmissions through a wall, maybe a sheetrocked wall but not a brick or stucco wall. this is all in theory btw.
 
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chalin27 said:
I dont use one and really I dont need one. Alot of times you can over do it and kill your vocal recording it's better to just sound treat your room for recording. If you cant treat your room then place your Mic in the middle of the room. Before I went to school I did the closet thing the blanket thing and payed for studio time where I recorded in a both. My recordings are better than all of those things I tried.
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i definitely feel you on that chalin. nailing a blanket to a wall of a closet will (Dampen) the high frequency reflection, but the lowend reflection is still present because the low frequency is bouncing back. you need very thick comforters to be able to absorb the sound. eggshell foam or better yet the aurolex works best because the pockets and hills break up the sound as well as absorbs it . now, if you had a frame with blankets draped over it then the soundwaves haven't any immediate wall to reflect off of, and when it does make it to the wall outside of the frame, it's again absorbed for a second time, on it's way back through the blanket. of course the further you are away from the wall and/or the thicker your blanket the better this cancellation works.
 
Trumpspade said:
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he was referring to you thinking since you don't have a booth you don't need professional monitors. the more correct things you have the better mixing and recording will be for you.
 
I have a booth. I wouldn't record without one. I recorded 90% of my last album in here, and not one person has been able to figure out which 2 songs I didn't record in my home studio. They sound just as good as the songs I tracked at the professional studio.
 

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jugalo180 said:
he was referring to you thinking since you don't have a booth you don't need professional monitors. the more correct things you have the better mixing and recording will be for you.
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Thanks for clearing that up because I was lost..........I was never saying that you don't need monitors. All I said was :

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That's my other question" Why get good monitors if your room isn't treated? It defeats the purpose! Right?
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I think they work hand in hand............However, a vocal booth is a preference. If you have one room and it is properly treated room, you solve many of the vocal problems that exist in an untreated room, although not etirely. I want both a treated room for mixing purposes and a vocal booth treated specifically for vocals. That's what I am aiming for, but I know it takes time and money......
 
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Change of POETS said:
I have a booth. I wouldn't record without one. I recorded 90% of my last album in here, and not one person has been able to figure out which 2 songs I didn't record in my home studio. They sound just as good as the songs I tracked at the professional studio.
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This looks more like a sound treated area than a booth unless you took it apart for the pic? When I was in maryland I had a room a little bigger than that area I sound treated in a similar way.
 
chalin27 said:
This looks more like a sound treated area than a booth unless you took it apart for the pic? When I was in maryland I had a room a little bigger than that area I sound treated in a similar way.
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Well, it's semantics really. You call it a sound treated environment, I call it my vocal booth..lol...

Just for the record:

Main Entry: booth
Pronunciation: 'büth, esp British 'bü[th]
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural booths /'bü[th]z, 'büths/
Etymology: Middle English bothe, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse buth booth; akin to Old English buan to dwell -- more at BOWER:

A small enclosure affording privacy for one person at a time <a telephone booth> <polling booth> (2) : a small enclosure that isolates its occupant especially from patrons or customers <a ticket booth> (3) : an isolated enclosure used in sound recording or in broadcasting <a radio booth>
 
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