Portable Vocal Booth best solution or not?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Unadonis
  • Start date Start date
U

Unadonis

New member
NEW EDITED POST: After continuing to review posts here, I'm no longer considering the below $595 portable vocal booth - I'm going to go with a PVC frame and drape sound-dampening blankets from them. It'll be smaller to store and about 6 times cheaper...

So now I just have to determine whether 1) these "official" sound blankets are the best
http://www.markertek.com/Product.as...ubcat=&prodClass=ACBLANKET&mfg=&search=0&off=

or whether 2) U-Haul moving blankets will serve my purpose or
3) whether adding studiofoam to the inside of the blanket-draped booth will be best. Thoughts?
______________________________________________
(MY ORIGINAL POST IS BELOW, WHICH I'VE DECIDED AGAINST)
I've read a LOT of posts here about vocal isolation booths but I'm still confused; I'm not going to build a vocal booth in my home studio (read: spare room) but I want to maximize the quality of my recorded vocals.

Would this "Portable Sound Booth"
http://www.markertek.com/Product.as...bcat=&prodClass=SOUNDBOOTH&mfg=&search=0&off=
be the perfect solution for a non-permanent way to record best vocals? It LOOKS good, but there's no reviews/feedback for it... anybody here use one or demo'd one? If so, please let me know.
 
Last edited:
If you're going to be laying down vocals separately, my suggestion would be to make some of the other panels in your room taller and put them on wheels or stands instead of mounting them on the wall.

That way, you can surround your vocalist with them when doing vocals and move them back into place around the room when mixing.
 
A different way would be to make 4 - 2' X 4' panel absorbers (703 wrapped in fabric) and sew some loops on the tops then suspend them from the ceiling in a semicircle type of formation with the center of the trap at head height. then just back your singer into it and set a mic in their face.

Just take them down when you're done doing vocals. It shouldn't cost more than $125 if you DIY.
 
That will work if you have a quiet room. It will also cost you extra money for absorbtion that you only use for vocalists.

What I was proposing was to reuse existing treatments and save the money for other things. No sense in buying things you only use 10-20% of the time when you can reuse what you already have for different things.
 
I certainly wasn't discrediting your idea, Sir. I was simply offering another suggestion. Unadonis is proposing to use moving blankets which I don't think would work as well as some good rigid fiberglass absorbers - Plus it would definitely look more professional. Maybe, I'm wrong, but that's my point of view. The absorbers I proposed could be used in other applications as well so, there's no waste of money involved. Who couldn't use some extra treatments for their studio anyway, not me.
 
No problem. Sorry if I came across wrong. 'Twas not intentional. I was just trying to save him some money. I agree that either way, the fiberglass can look better and do a better job than the blankets.
 
Unadonis: first of all, those "official" sound blankets look exactly like the moving blankets that I bought for $120/dozen. I've heard several times that these sound blankets are just moving blankets with a different name and higher price. Not worth the money. Also, you might check out this thread - some similar stuff was talked about... https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=174552

Oh, and I'm not sure, but I think U-Haul blankets aren't quite as thick as what you're showing there. Try to find something that looks like those sound blankets, but without the price. I called around here in St. Louis for about 15 minutes and found a distributor that I could buy from (1 dozen minimum, but that's worth it to me).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top