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Hey you guy's. The people that's building my new house say they would build my vocal booth for 2 hundread dollars, so i've been looking around for a nice big window but don't know where to look. the booth is 5x6 would any of you guys know where to look for them at.
 
The people that's building my new house say they would build my vocal booth for 2 hundread dollars

What are they proposing for $200?

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does that include, double drywall layers, a solid core door, and an almost airtight door seal?

oh, and no holes in the drywall?
 
You can get a window at pretty much any Home Depot type store, or at a glass shop, or at a pro supply house. If you want a standard double pane fixed panel window, just measure the size you want and order it. If you want something non standard like real thick glass, probably a glass shop is a good bet.

I'd recommend tempered glass, and the window is likely to set you back another $200.
 
If you want glass in a vocal booth, its true a lot of people use a double-pane window, tempered or not, however usually the glass panes are the same thickness, and in true parallel. Therefore, sounds inside the vocal booth will transmit vibrations to the first glass pane, through the air "chamber" between the two pieces of glass, to the second glass, then come through into the room facing the vocal booth (console room usually).

The two pieces of glass really should be different thicknesses so they do not share the same resonant frequency, and one should be perpendicular to the floor, and the other at a small angle so the air chamber inside does not have parallel "walls" of glass. This simple construction technique seriously cuts down in acoustical transmission from the booth to the control room, if that is what you are looking to do.

Making a window yourself is really not that difficult. I chose not to make from scratch, and instead I bought a double pane window as Ms. Hilarious suggested, then built another wooden frame for the angled piece of safety glass, and have it ready to screw into the wooden frame of the purchased window. Cost me about $50 on top of the cost of the purchased window.
 
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