So any of you guys ever built a vocal booth???????
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Posted on Apr 24, 2003 05:06 am
uhuhbigfan
Member Since: Apr 01, 2003
The only thing left to construct in my studio is two more ISO booths which I want to start next week. Other than that its all cosmetics.
One will be 6'x6' and I would like to set it up for vocals. It will also double as an amp room for guitar tracks.
The other will be 4'x6' and will be set up as an amp room also.
In between these two rooms will be a 4'x6' closet for storage and sound buffering. This room will also house our mounted snake and a mounted 6 plug headphone splitter. Cables will be distributed from there.
The entire unit will be 14'x6'. This will be seperated from the control room by a 4' wide hallway.
I pretty much know how I want to build them as far as soundproofing goes. I will be applying much of the same applications that I did for the drum room (double sheetrock, heavy duty doors, felt packed walls, lotsa caulk,....).
My question for you all is this. Do you have any suggestions for interior applications that will help out the sound. By this I mean, would hardwood floors be better than carpet? Would wood on the walls give it a warmer sound? Is 6'x6' too big for a vocal booth? Actually I'm looking for any suggestions I can get from people that have more experience with this than I do. I just don't want to go to all this trouble for something that is not going to work well.
Any help is much appreciated.
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flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Apr 24, 2003 11:47 am from my knowledge of acoustics...which admittedly is pretty basic, carpet or similar will deaden the sound - you'll get a clear crisp representation of what youre trying to record.
on the other had, hard surfaces such as wood or walls will give a little reverb which will (hopewfully) give a little 'warmth' to your sound.
other than that (which might be wrong anyway), im no expert, like i say. someone on here'll know though
its a project i fancy doing one day, so let us know how it goes!
Apr 24, 2003 11:56 am Well, obviously this is one of those things that you pretty much will want to suit to your taste, but if it were me, this is what I would do. For a vocal booth, I would use carpet on the floor and absorbtion foam on the walls to deaden the room. But I would install the foam using velcro or some other removable medium so that pieces could be taken down to "liven" the room up a little when desired. From what I've seen, most vocal booths are built to be pretty dead sounding. I think that generally, this is the best way to go since it allows you the most flexibility in the sound. I would probably do the same for an iso booth for guitars, etc. as well. Of course, I haven't done any of this myself, so take this stuff for what it's worth! Let us know how it goes.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 24, 2003 12:13 pm Wow BigFan, I truely would love to be a part of building your room. And no, I don't have the warewithall to have built one. In my research, it sounds like you are on top of the whole thing. I know double walls with an air space is usually recomended, and I noticed a lot of folks are going to floating floors as well. Carpet is very iffy. From what I understand it really is not a good sound absorbson material across the frequency board. I fact one article noted that concrete block does a better job of transforming sound into heat in a linear fashion than carpet. One of the best articles I have read relayed how an individual used computer simulation to design the perfect interior. When completed it sucked. The individual brought in an "old sound man" and he moved a few things around and wallah!
Hopefully Noise will see this post. He has a lot more experience to share in building studio's. Myself, I do a lot of experimenting. One thing I have noted. If you want to record bass via mic, make a BIG room. The wavelength of those low tones is huge! A small room quickly becomes part of the bass sound enclosure and the resonance can be very disturbing!
Apr 24, 2003 04:41 pm Thanks fellas,
I guess I'm gonna have to treat these rooms just as I have the drum room. For absorption we carpeted the floor with good padding and it's workin' well. We also made some 2'x3'x3" panels to hang around on the walls. We still need to do a few things in there to get it right but its gettin' there.
I have some half inch accoustical foam for the inside of the voc booth to start with. I'm thinkin' cover two adjoining walls completely and put a wood app on the other two. Then use the same approach for the two wood walls that we did in the drum room.
Maybe I will PM Noize and see what he thinks.
Thanks for the ideas fellas. It sounds like I'm thinkin' right so far but this is already the second time around building this thing and I want to make sure I get it right.
I appreciate you guys!
