Silent fan for recording booth??

[elove]

I have just finished building my first recording booth. Everything sounds great, looks great...but one problem? I need to add some type of small fan inside so that we can breath after long periods of recording. Where can I find a little cheap silent fan that the mic wont pick up that I may be able to just put on the floor to circulate air? Also, I need a little small battery operated light to that doesnt get that hot. What are you guys using for air and light these days? My budget is hella low, so give me the budget ideas. thanks..

 

[Dani Pace]

Your best bet might be to run duct work to the booth and put an exhaust fan on the other end. Chances are that any fan in the recording booth will be picked up by the mic or at least cause a hum. Yeah we all need to be able to breathe and not get too hot but unfortunately electric motors hum and most fans, even really small ones make the kind of noise that a mic will hear even if you don't.

 

[apl]

Large fans going very slow are quieter than small fans going fast.

 

[VSpaceBoy]

Problem solved

 

[reshp1]

Does anyone run an Ionic Breeze in their studio? From the commercials, it looks like it moves quite a bit of air quietly? Kinda pricey though..

 

[Bass40]

Problem solved

Those run out extra extra fast.

 

[thane1200]

Does anyone run an Ionic Breeze in their studio? From the commercials, it looks like it moves quite a bit of air quietly? Kinda pricey though..

I think frederic has a few of those.........

 

[Innovations]

Something that just moves the air around is not good enough. Your booth is most likely sealed pretty tight and your own carbon dioxide could build up enough for you to pass out.

Also just having a fan blowing out is no good if there is no way to get air in. The fan will provide more noise and less air.

What most of the premade boths do is to have a piggyback air handling unit on one side or top. What you want to do is to have both the intake and exhaust take a couple of turns due to baffles in the box and to have the surface be lined with absorbent material so the sound has to bounce against the absorbent material just like the air.. Then you want to put the fans on the outside surface. Usually you would use small computer case style fans (either 110 volt AC versions or use a transformer to use DC fans) If you have both intake and exhaust paths the fan could go on either one of them or use two small fans instead of one. You might also put them on a dimmer switch located inside the booth so you could crank them up between takes and then down a little while tracking.

 

[MrBoogie]

Does anyone run an Ionic Breeze in their studio? From the commercials, it looks like it moves quite a bit of air quietly? Kinda pricey though..

All those air purifiers that produce ozone make me feel sick, literally. Also, it has a certain smell I do not like. It's supposed to neutralize odors, but it's worse to me than the odors it's suppose to neutralize!

Not everyone seems to have issues with this, though. I gave mine to a friend, and now she has 3 in her house and likes them.

 

[Goldcan]

All those air purifiers that produce ozone make me feel sick, literally. Also, it has a certain smell I do not like. It's supposed to neutralize odors, but it's worse to me than the odors it's suppose to neutralize!

Not everyone seems to have issues with this, though. I gave mine to a friend, and now she has 3 in her house and likes them.

Don't go visit her house much then do you

 

[oldtymer]

Fans

Im getting way too much inspiration at Walmart lately. I was in the fan section and saw two neat looking fans by Stanley. I bought the smaller one. it has two small squirrell cage fans inside. I will connect a duct and then run it to the booth. Ill let you know how it works when I finish. the small one was 18.00 and the larger was 29.00 as I remember.