Vocal Booths, how important are they?
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Posted on Mar 25, 2005 10:24 am
ZX6R1033
Perdido
Member Since: Dec 15, 2004
The home studio I am building is 18' x 20' on the floor, and has a pitched roof rising 8' 8" at the peak (all the way from the floor). I am going to be a bit limited for space, so I was wondering how important a vocal booth really is?
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Mar 25, 2005 10:27 am well I have NO clue as to the american Measuring system... But I have a square room (bed room )
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and I have NO need for a Vocal Booth... I have a room FULL of stuff to absorb sound and stuff.. so It won't get reflected...
I don't think it's THAT important
Mar 25, 2005 10:32 am www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm
vocals can be done to taste. sometimes in a hallway for echo and space. sometimes in a dead room for a ghetto vocal booth just use a heavily padded corner of your room. or go to the center of your room for a little more life. depending on what you want to bring to the recording try using different polar patterns.
Mar 25, 2005 10:33 am I think they're more for tracking vocals at the same time with other instrumnts and what have ya.
If your tracking them separate and don't have background sounds coming in your recording space, I don't see any problems.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 25, 2005 10:50 am It sounds like the shape of the room is pretty good for acoustics. I've read that the ceilings that are shaped like /\ are better than flat ceilings as far as acoustics go.
If you don't like the acoustics, then maybe some dampening materials would help diffuse some of the waves at the problem frequencies.
Something that I"ve learned from the people here is to do some clapping and listen to the room's reverb to test the acoustics of a room. Now my dog thinks that I'm crazy.
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Mar 25, 2005 02:15 pm I wish I had one just so no one could hear me while I'm doing my vocals. :P
Dan
drakeMember
Since: Apr 13, 2004
Mar 25, 2005 03:03 pm a LOT of my recording is done in places other than in my studio. the worst sound i've ever gotten is in a room with 4 flat, painted walls and a 10' flat cieling. the best i've ever gotten is on an large auditorium stage with a 50' cieling and a circular curtain around the singers.....
so my conclusion is that corners and low cielings are evil. (and loud air vents.... hate... so ... much)
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 25, 2005 09:03 pm I have a tendancy to use the bathroom down here. IT rings nicely, and can be damped when needed. I rarely have to put any reverb on a vocal done that way. The upstairs is stone tile and has a pretty good tone as well. Again, a bit of damping and it can go from nice echo to dead in a heartbeat. I know from experiance a garage can also work real well. but street noise can be a problem.
