Vocal & Acoustic Room?

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> The main problem with only using fabric is that it doesn't
> absorb the mids or lows. When you only absorb the highs you
> can end up with a very dead but boomy room.

Yeah, I know. Bass is just a misery all around, which is why I record bass direct or through a modeler, and am looking into getting something like Trilogy and just doing it with keyboard, the way it's being done in more and more major recordings ("Man, how did they record that great bass track?" "It's not a bass...").

Drums I'm doing electronically, for the same reasons. I'm just trying to get the grosser reflected echoes under control in a small, near-cubic room.

I would dispair of ever trying to kill outside noise, as it's nearly impossible in a wood frame house, and in my case it's not generally a problem at the times I record.

Getting a more deadened environment in the small vocal booth required heavier and denser material, and I believe the small size helps with bass some as well. I am going to try recording hand drums in there, too and see what happens.

Of course, the big problem is with mixdown monitoring, as there's no escaping the bass frequencies there.

In the home studio, everything is "improvise and compromise." :(
 
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bongo, Maybe (if your room is big enough) try building a frame within it, such as Shane has done. Build a separate floor in the frame and isolate from the main floor using sheetblock or similar materials. To begin with you could always start by using moving blankets over the frame and then later you could build them into walls. just an idea...
 
PsyCoNo said:
bongo, Maybe (if your room is big enough) try building a frame within it, such as Shane has done. Build a separate floor in the frame and isolate from the main floor using sheetblock or similar materials. To begin with you could always start by using moving blankets over the frame and then later you could build them into walls. just an idea...
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The floor is fine, as it's a concrete slab with several layers of carpet, so I don't have that crawlspace drum effect going on. Building a moveable, hi-density wall (what do they call those things in a real studio?) is something I will definitely get around to after I finish up the rest of the studio. One of those things rolled around in different positions can help a lot of different problems.
 
i am just curious to what size pvc pipe you guys use?
I think im gonna use 1-1/4" because my dad has a lot of it that he said i can have. I just have to buy a lot of the connectors.

also what do u think a good size is if i make a vocal booth like this. it just cant go over 7 feet because thats how high the cieling is in my basement. so i was thinking of cutting all the pieces of pipe 39" so that equals 6'6" then plust the diameter of the tubes for the base the middle and the top wich would make it 6'9-3/4" then im gonna buy these foams mats that they have at my work that r like 1/4" or 1/2". but i dont know if 39" will be big enough so i might make 2 different sized polls. 1size for the height and 1size for the length and width....

well thanks for any advice
 
What is the advantage to building it with PVC pipe? It is just more cost effective? Doesnt seem like it would build as solid a wall... I guess it would also have to do with the walls' purpose?
 
I like the idea of using PVC because i dont always record at my house.. so this way it is real easy to take down and put up again.

also this is my parents house so i cant go making walls
 
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