Why small vocal booths?

[longsoughtfor]

I am about to start construction on my studio and I have a plan that makes three rooms, two tracking rooms (10x19 & 11x9) and a control room.

I see lots of threads here and elsewhere concerning making really small vocal booths. The extreem is the current thread about using an equipment rack as a VB...

Is this borne out of a simple lack of space? is there an inherently good reason to make a VB that is small, hot and restricting? I have been planning on making my 11x9 room dead(ish) and using that for tracking vocals.

Should I take a corner of one of the rooms and make a small completely dead space?

Just wondering - Thanks
Kevin.

 

[Track Rat]

Pesonally, I don't have a dedicated vocal booth. I have a small controll room (10'X12') and a small tracking room (16'X12'). If whoever I'm recording needs to have the vocals done at the same time as the rest of the music's being tracked or even a scratch vocal just so the rest of the band can keep the tune straight, I put him (or her) in the controll room with me. Now if I had a gymnasium sized tracking room it would be cool to have lots of rooms for isolation purposes but they wouldn't be equipment rack sized or even phone booth sized for that matter. More like bedroom sized or a little larger. I was talking to the gentleman who wanted to make an iso booth out of an euipment rack and he was doing so I believe because he was in an apartment and needed to be able to scream at the top of his lungs without attracting the police and he couldn't build a perminant, dedicated structure. My recommendations are just my humble opinion. YMMV.

 

[longsoughtfor]

Thanks Track Rat - thats what I was thinking. I figure if someone needs to do a scratch vocal, I could always set them up in the control room with me.

Cheers
Kevin.