How small can a vocal booth be?

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Julys Home recording magazine has an artical that shows you how to make 4 by 8 foot baffels to attach to a wall or a ceiling

What I would do is set it up on a corner of the room. Treat the walls and ceiling and build two more to free stand so you can connect them air tight somewhat. Its a good idea to put a window in one of the baffels that is in view of the workstation Make sure it is triple glazing so sound from the monitoring system out side doesnt bleed into the mics.

Use R13 insulation in the baffels to soundproof the room as much as you can.
 
Work has begun on the Iso-Helmet

Self contained head gear with built in headphones, microphone and output jacks (both XLR and Phono).

Of course no air gets in but what design is perfect?


:D
 
Soon after using the device you will be assimilated by the borg.:(
 
Re: Frederic

No problem on the clarification Moelar2. No problem at all. Cubical partitions are generally neutral, but you can spray them with adhesive, and stick acoustical tile on one side.

A friend of mine made his own gobos... and since he's into woodworking, they came out very nice. Basically, its two 4x8'x.75" pieces of plywood glued, then screwed together, with a 2x4" frame around it. The 2x4's were milled with a groove, so teh plywood fits partially inside the 2x4's for strength, neatness, etc. Was an excuse to use his milling machine :) Anyway, one side of the plywood was coated with bathroom tile, the otherside was covered with 3" auralex acoustical foam. He made several. If he wants more "live" in the recording, he faces the tile towards the sax player. if he wants it more dead, he turns it around. Clever, huh?

If you really really want to buy Gobos, www.auralex.com makes some of the nicer units I've seen. Other companies make them, but they tend to weaken structurally as far as I can tell. Of course, I haven't seen them all :)

Also, I'm probably going to build a small room within my garage. The dimensions are going to be 8x8x6. What is the best way to run cables in there? One of my friends as a similar setup and he has a junction box. Where can I find these? What are they usually priced at?
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Most garages don't have a fancy smancy ceiling, so feel free to run the wires up your newly constructed walls, and in between the joists. its probably the easiest way of routing cables. A/C goes one way, audio goes another way for maximum hum prevention.

JERRY: I looked into whisperbooth; it seemed awfully expensive! Lucky you! [/B]
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They are nice, and they are expensive. In raw materials, the whisperbooth is expensive, no doubt. However, they are VERY easy to setup, and all your corners are square :) If you make it yourself, and have the same limited woodworking talent I have, you will have slightly non-square corners :)

I knew my inability to build parallel walls would be useful someday :)

Frederic
 
bcnx/moelar: I paid a bundle. (got the MDL 4242 SNVBP-- check out whisperRoom.com if you must know what I forked over-- my shame prevents me from reprinting it here). But you have to understand the nature of my insanity. I am mostly interested in learning to sing right now. You see I used to have to run out at night to the office from time to time, to practice, and this upset the lady greatly. Recording is secondary at the moment. I have put off buying a decent recording apparatus to get this WhisperRoom-- which will keep me, my girlfriend and the neighbors all happy at least for the moment. Hopefully.
 
No justification needed. The greater part of my monthly pays go to music. So what. I've worked for it and everyone is entitled to his/her own ambitions. If it makes you happy, go for it.

Good luck with the singing!
 
Thats sounds retroactive to me. but are the rooms good rooms? and do they cancell out the echo good. Ive been thinking of building a room lately
 
darrin_h2000: Are you asking about WhisperRoom? In any case, I just put it together last night and tried it out for the first time. The sound actually seemed a bit more lively inside than I imagined it would be. I once built a vocal booth that had turned out a lot deader sounding inside than this one, but didn't isolate the sound on the outside nearly as well.

As I said, my immediate need is sound isolation for practice, and in that department WhisperRoom seems to have met the bill. Last night I went in there and bleated pretty seriously at around 12:00 AM. That volume normally would have gotten the dogs howling pretty good. But last night the lady in the next room slept peacefully: she didn't hear a peep. Oh rapture!

I won't be able to check out how the room handles recording for a while. I am still waiting on buying a decent DAW. The walls came lined with felt and they give you some extra foam/eggcrate-style liners to add (triangular egg-crate style). I could probably kill echo with more foam/pillows?

For now, life is good. I actually prefer a warmer, more lively sound for practice anyway.

Keep you posted.
 
You dont need the room to be dead anyway. dead on one end and live but diffuse on the other end. Is ideal.
 
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