vocal booth help

[antispatula]

I was wondering if this would work. My budget on my little "vocals booth" in my closet is about 300 bucks, and I'm not looking to completely isolate or soundproof my room. A little sound muffling would be good, but I am in no position to make an imoble, temporary soundproofed closet, since I don't have the cold hard cash, and am moving in two years. I want to make the room pretty dead though, and help a little with outside sound. I don't know much about accoustics. Would this work?

So my closet is 4 ft by 4ft by 8 ft. It COULD be more like 4ft by 7ft by 8 ft (I want to cut the closet it half......half the price!). Keep in mind I am pretty accoustically illit. So I want to make a 2x4 frame for the closet, then screw up some plywood, so there is a couple inches of air between the drywall of my closet and the plywood. In the air, I really don't know what to put. Is the 703 fiberglass ok? Or is that better for the enterior? And on the outside, I was thinking of either more fiberglass covered with fabric, or foam. and in the corners, I wanted to add extra fiberglass, to help with the low frequencies, since they apparently like to gather in corners. What's the best way to do all this?

And please don't tell me "there is no such thing as cheap sondproofing." I know that. I'm a 16 year old that gets maybe 200 a month, that still needs to buy a bunch of other equipment, and gas, and the occasional trip to Fresh Choice or Dennys. I'm not planning on making a professional booth, just one that will make my vocals sound decent. Thanks a bunch to all you accoustical geniouses!

 

[famous beagle]

I'm not a total expert, and I'm sure someone more knowledgable will be able to help more than this, but:

I don't think the plywood walls would make enough of a soundproofing difference to account for the space you'd be giving up. If it's 4x4 already, then by the time you get done with a new wall a few inches out AND add fiberglass panels, it's going to be kind of close quarters in there.

I think you'd be fine just treating the walls of the closet (and the one new plywood "wall" you'd have to build if you wanted to cut the closet in half) with fiberglass panels covered with fabric.

But wait, if you're wanting to cut the closet in half, how are you going to get into the "booth?" Are you going to build a door ... or ...????? Are there two doors to the closet?

 

[antispatula]

hey, thanks for the advice. So does anyone know what's better, fiberglass or foam? Which one works better?

Haha yeah, my closet have 2 sliding doors on it.

 

[Innovations]

In general I think that you will get better results with fiberglass. Another advantage is that fiberglass panels are usually hung like pictures while foam is usually glued, which makes moving them a whole lot easier.