vocal booth
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Posted on Sep 01, 2009 01:42 pm
ddreadi
Member Since: Oct 16, 2007
greetings to everyone
i need some advice here on voice recording
i made a vocal booth from plywood and a 2x4
but i had some spunge i found from my baby matres
so i put the spunge inside my vocal booth whic is 2 inch length and width 2inch aswel
qst is am i on right track here voice sound different
any advise on that would be great
i forget to mention that i cover the spunge with the same covering of the matress.
thank you
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pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Sep 01, 2009 03:47 pm Hello ddreadi,
I'm not sure what spunge is, but I'll assume it is some type of foam.
Also, i'm not sure what you mean by 2 inch length and width. That's pretty small, so I think there's a small communication problem.
Anyway, for a vocal booth, or shield, I think having a curved type thing: \_/ that you can stand somewhat inside of, is the idea. Having foam on the inner walls of the shield will knock down reflections and such, giving your mic a 1 voice only signal. So you won't have any reflections or echo in your recording.
Here's an image of something similar:
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Sep 01, 2009 03:48 pm Oh, I get it: sponge! heh, it took me a minute =P
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Sep 01, 2009 10:13 pm Ya, too much absorption will make the vocal pretty dead sounding. You need to use some but not too much. That mattress foam is probably a bit too thick.
Sep 03, 2009 08:44 am I bought a pop filter from this site called www.editorskeys.com, have been using it constantly since and its actually amazing, I get perfect audio recordings every time! Saves me having to use a full vocal booth set up. Also I managed to pick up this 10% discount code from soundonsound.com I will put it below, think it only lasts another 5 days though
Sep 03, 2009 09:37 am thanks for your response
at the moment i have the sponge 2,5 inches thick
do i need to make them thinner.
what if i had it at 1.5 inches thick what do you think