How many of you use vocal booths?

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Who uses a vocal booth?

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Fieva said:
Anybody thought of buying a Whisper Room?
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Yeah, I thought about it. Then I realized I could save $3G's if I made one myself. :D

Seriously though, if you have the scrill, it's worth the purchase. Unless you can build one to spec, like that. My homie built one for his studio, and it cost him about $1400 for all the sound deadening materials and lumber, etc... It's a nice booth.
 
I don't know anyone who has one and haven't heard any reliable info on the pro's/con's. For me I may just build absorbers.
 
jugalo180 said:
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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yo homie hit it on the money as for the vocal booth goes
 
There is a thread that was created in this forum a couple of years ago on a DIY vocal booth.

I will try to find it.
 
I'm New hear I was reading about the topic I use a booth what I did was I went to a studio and watched ,I went to home depot and I bout the door with the frame all ready put on and I got 3 slabs for the walls and wood for the roof ever thing came out to about close to 300.00 the booth is about three feet by three feet then I went to national liquadaters and bout tila carpeting its 20 dollers a box I needed about 4 box's and did the out side of the booth with it then I went back to the studio which is my brother inlaws and asked him what does he use for sound proofing and he gave me sondproofing blankets which are real nothing but over priced moving blankets and I did the in side of the booth and thats about it so my home studio is perfect when peopl hear my music they think I lie when when I tell them where I did it I have the zoom MRS-1608 with the CD burner and some other things and I love my set up I used to be in the studio every night intell like 3 in the morn now I be in my house and it's work's out better to hear the sound I come out with go to www.dirtyhartz.com and wile your there let me know how you like my music.
 
im a lil too lazy to read everyone's post right now -- sorry but im tired as hell n have a headache

but here is my two cents

1) i had a friend (he no longer is a friend, cuz he wanted more $ from me than we had originally agreed upon for building my booth) build me a booth/room. its pretty close to the size of a small closet. i then put in "drop ceiling" materials. i have not draped the walls -- though i think about it every now n then.

since building the booth, i have noticed a remarkable dif. in soundquality.

2) i recently found a magazine on studio booths and found in there some "build a booth" materials. for like 1500 you can purchase the kit that comes with "soundproof" walls, panels, door, window, etc.

im thinkin of doing this in the future -- the advantage -- you can always take it down and take it with you, if you move from one spot to another

well if repeated something, sorry
hope this helps

if i can remember/find the name of that magazine i will let you know
 
What are you doing wrong?

Probably not starting a new thread for that.

Just my two cents,

The Deen
 
I took about an hour of my day to build a booth in my closet... and i was pretty fun too. I took those foam egg crates that you put under mattresses and cut it and staple gunned it to the inside of my closet... then i stapled little cardboard stuff on the parts i missed. Then i take a thick comforter and drape it over a wooden bar for hangers. When the comforter is on the bar, if you clap your hands, it is no echo at all. Plus i have a one by 2 feet painting right infront of the rapper where you can paste your verse... and to top it off, i have a flouresent black light screwed in right above your head so your verses are very readable... i love mi booth
 
grapeboi510 said:
I took about an hour of my day to build a booth in my closet... and i was pretty fun too. I took those foam egg crates that you put under mattresses and cut it and staple gunned it to the inside of my closet... then i stapled little cardboard stuff on the parts i missed. Then i take a thick comforter and drape it over a wooden bar for hangers. When the comforter is on the bar, if you clap your hands, it is no echo at all. Plus i have a one by 2 feet painting right infront of the rapper where you can paste your verse... and to top it off, i have a flouresent black light screwed in right above your head so your verses are very readable... i love mi booth
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could you post pics sometime?
 
It's a closet booth. I bought some studio foam and covered the wall behind the mic and the wall right of the mic fully. I then took a heavy sleeping bag and covered the wall to the left of the mic completely. I have the hanger bar in an ascending angle going up towards the ceiling. I placed foam on the bar to create a "ceiling" of foam. I have clothes hung up behind where i would stand and there is a comforter placed between me and the clothes. I think it is a very creative booth. I laugh about it but i actually sounds pretty good. I wonder if i can get the same quality when i move.
 
I do not have one yet, but I love raw, fresh, live recordings best.
 
No booth here. Just a good sound soundproofed room. And all computers and stuff that makes noise is in another room... Works great...
 
BeatsBuY said:
No booth here. Just a good sound soundproofed room. And all computers and stuff that makes noise is in another room... Works great...
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Then, you have a booth. It's just the size of a room. ;)
 
absolutly necessary, of course for hte next album I was thinking of setting everything up on Boston Common on a Saturday or Sunday and recording all my vocals right there in public on the common, (lol) well maybe just for one song... Then again, thats probably why KRF Records said we were the new Arnold Schoenburg...

-C$
 
I wanna buy that case for the pc that is suppose to keep your pc quiet. Also might build me a booth here this weekend. I already have the design & just need the foam & fiberglass. I got sheetrock here & might need some 2x4's
 
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