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pure.fusion
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Hey guys,
I just got given a homemade "Vocal booth", rough dimentions 2.5m x 1.5m x 2.2m(H). Thats 8ft x 5ft x 7ft(H)
I got it 'cause i needed an isolation cabinet for my valve guitar amp - it's getting fairly loud which limits my recording time and angers the wife
It's a fairly serious construction - the walls have structural pine frame, a layer of acoustic plaster inside and out and it's packed tight with insulatiion. The insulation is probably less dense than the usual sound stopper density (~50kg/M3) , but packed never the less. I think it'll stop a serious amount of sound from getting out.
Bizar, after contemplating the iso cab all those months ago, that it actually falls on my door step...
It was set up like most vocal booths you read about here - cubic shape, with no bass trapping and some thin irregular shaped foam covering all walls killing high frequency reflections only, probably giving (in comparison to a real vocal booth) a bass-boomy, flat sound.
Not wanting to do things by halves, and having invested nothing except some space in my house and my sore back to move the heavy bastard, here is the question: Should the box be treaed the same way for both the amplifier application and the vocal/sax application?
Really, my knowledge gap comes from not understanding why people use vocal booths - is it just ambient noise isolation like an amplifier ISO box?
Any help, pointers to info or general comment are welcome.
Cheers,
FM
I just got given a homemade "Vocal booth", rough dimentions 2.5m x 1.5m x 2.2m(H). Thats 8ft x 5ft x 7ft(H)
I got it 'cause i needed an isolation cabinet for my valve guitar amp - it's getting fairly loud which limits my recording time and angers the wife
It's a fairly serious construction - the walls have structural pine frame, a layer of acoustic plaster inside and out and it's packed tight with insulatiion. The insulation is probably less dense than the usual sound stopper density (~50kg/M3) , but packed never the less. I think it'll stop a serious amount of sound from getting out.
Bizar, after contemplating the iso cab all those months ago, that it actually falls on my door step...
It was set up like most vocal booths you read about here - cubic shape, with no bass trapping and some thin irregular shaped foam covering all walls killing high frequency reflections only, probably giving (in comparison to a real vocal booth) a bass-boomy, flat sound.
Not wanting to do things by halves, and having invested nothing except some space in my house and my sore back to move the heavy bastard, here is the question: Should the box be treaed the same way for both the amplifier application and the vocal/sax application?
Really, my knowledge gap comes from not understanding why people use vocal booths - is it just ambient noise isolation like an amplifier ISO box?
Any help, pointers to info or general comment are welcome.
Cheers,
FM
