Vocal Booth

[Mr.BossPlaya]

I was wondering if anyone had a guide or DETAILED instructions on constructing a vocal booth. Something about 4-5 ft wide and deep, and about 7 ft tall. Just big enough to track one vocalist.

Thanks!

[Craig F]

other than how bad it would sound no I don't

[NickH]

This forum is great for this kind of thing:-

Here

I did all the research & plans once, to do it right I would have lost half the room...

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[DeNiro]

I personally think the booth thing is over-rated due to modern technology. Mics with new directional fields cut out on alot of unwanted noise. A room the size of a closet with the corners sound proofed would make for a decent recording. The corners are the only things that will kill your desired sound. Another thing is where your located. If you are recording somewhere near a street or train station, etc., then you will need to secure the 6 boundries of sound.(Up, down, sides, forth and back areas.) Other than that consider power conditioning. Think about it; when was the last time a consumer(our bosses) said "Did u hear that background noise?"..One last thing: Compression. Hollatchaboi!

[daeron80]

Craig F is right - a room that small is going to sound awful. Treating the corners is only going to address one of a hundred problems inherent in small vocal booths. There are also severe modal anomalies well into the lower mids, comb filtering in the upper mids, a complete lack of the crucial initial time-delay gap, and no distinction between early reflections and reverberance. If you need that much isolation so badly that you're willing to have your vocals sound like they are in a tiny, dead space, then you must do what you must do. You're probably better off pointing a tight-pattern mic (414s are great for this) into a corner from a few feet away, padding the corner and ceiling a bit, and living with whatever bleed gets through.