Sound Proofing

[Debo32]

hey im trying to find out about this. special peice of foam that goes behind the mic and around the sides to give your mic that soundproof feel. even when you dont have the wall sound proofed at all. can anyone help me find the name of it or if you do know about it tell me the web site that i can get it on. would really appreciate it alot also. or if you dont know then tell me the best way sound sounsproof my mic. im a in corner eran and dont have any space to work with that is why i dont have a vocal booth.

thanks.........

 

[thane1200]

I just so happen to have an Auralex catalog here in front of me...................... just a sec.........................*turning pages*............ahah! here it is........Aural.Xpanders made by Auralex.

PS. Alot of what you said in your post is questionable, but I think this is what you meant?!?

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Hey thane, what does the catalog say these "supposedly" do? Thanks.
fitZ

 

[thane1200]

Hey thane, what does the catalog say these "supposedly" do? Thanks.
fitZ

This is what's written in the catalog, page 40.

Aural.Xpanders.™ The Toolkit for Sonic Sculpting!™

Aural.Xpanders give the recording engineer a high degree of control by providing the capability to filter the undesireable external overtones-nasty anomalies that tend to push engineers to over-process during mixing stage.

Aural.Xpanders offers the recording engineer a means of tonal control and passive filtering before sound ever hits the signal path and before ever reaching for a knob or launching a plug-in.

Seems kinda vague if you ask me.......

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Seems kinda vague if you ask me.......

I don't know if it does what they say but I often wondered if you had small mini absorbers around the mic, if for nothing else, but to isolate the mic, reduce comb filtering from walls etc. I'm going to try making some ....for when my somewhat studio build finally starts takeing shape. It won't be long. ... yea, right.

 

[thane1200]

I don't know if it does what they say but I often wondered if you had small mini absorbers around the mic, if for nothing else, but to isolate the mic, reduce comb filtering from walls etc. I'm going to try making some ....for when my somewhat studio build finally starts takeing shape. It won't be long. ... yea, right.

If you come up with something cool, post pics in the DIY Thread.

 

[EVT]

Hi,
I just recently finished recording a song and sang the vocals kind of far from the mic. I was told that I got a lot of the room sound, and since the room I'm recording in isn 't acoustically treated, it wasn't a good thing.
So, I was told to use moving blankets possibly behind, around the mic and me.
I came up with something in the meantime which seems to have helped a lot I think.
evt

 

[Debo32]

yeah i just got some of thos efrom that catalog they work perfectly here's some pics of it im going to get three more of them tomorrow and totally enclose the mic and then ill have almost great quality coming from my mic.

 

[earthboundrec]

I like to use those Expanders on snare drum mics... With the mic placed to reject the highhats there's usually still just a bit of bleed through. With these little things it's pretty much eliminated.