vocal/guitar booth

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I have a 6'x6' vocal/guitar booth,with fiber board on 3 walls, the celing and carpet on the floor. the door is a duel pane glass oak door. My question is should the room be VERY dead , how much does it effect the sound recorded- Im using a at4033 into a akai dps16, or i was thinking of putting wood slats over the fiber board to "liven" it up a bit- ... also should singing be done facing the glass door or away from it. thanks..
 
This post might fare better in the "Studio Building and Display" section.
 
The whole point in building an iso booth is....isolation.
You want that sucker as dead as possible. You can add ambience later, but record vocals dry. If you're recording acoustic guitar- same thing - you don't need freqs bouncing all around the room.


Bob
 
Thanks Bob, I kinda thought that but I've seen alot of studios with
either massive glass or wood panels in the booths so I was I guess confused but It makes sense, I can always wet it up later!


Hey I realize this is in the wrong Department, thats what late nights and too much ale does to you
 
The whole point of such a small space is to keep the pre-delay echoes so short that when you later add artificial reverb,it seems smoother.
Face the vocalist away from the reflective door.Also be aware of music stand and sheet music reflections by keeping their angles back.
That is a nice size for a vocal boothLong movable curtains would let you have a certain amount of control over the EQ and reflectivity.


Tom
 
thanks Tom, I did have the music stand directly behind the mic, i'll move it off-center.
 
Bob, I really like it, I was debating getting either a computer system which I could expand on, or this all in one system- It has 10 in and 16 play- back. 2 xlrs, 8 1/4 inch in, and a slew of onboard effects, a 6 inch screen and is so easy to walk through.
my only problem is finding a cd-rw with a scsi in to dump projects
on to so I'm not stuck with just one project on the hard drive.
It holds 10 g, I know of some major record releases which didn't use but 6g, so i'm sure theres plenty of room- thanks for asking!!:cool:
 
I have always been a fan of Akai gear, back to the tape days!
I, too, prefer a workstation to a computer. Glad you like yours- I may have to get me one. As for the CDRW, Hewlett Packard has a SCSI drive, the HP CD Writer 9600 SE. I don't know the price, but they make a pretty good drive. Thanks for the report on the Akai.

Bob
 
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