building a vocal booth

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:29 pm

I am looking to build an inexpensive vocal booth mainly for voice over work. Any suggestions on how to build or where to look on the web?

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:55 am

I thought this was a clever idea when I came across it. If this is how guster will be recording vocals for their new album, it must work pretty well.

http://www.guster.com/cat-bin/board/show?topic_id=456;list_only=1;noheader=1;ctn=rj12px;tn=guster_diarieslatest;id=3495

might want to try a different sheet design though.

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:15 pm

Swimmy,

> I am looking to build an inexpensive vocal booth mainly for voice over work. <

If you don't need isolation from other sounds, it probably makes more sense to just create a dead sounding area in the same room you normally work in.

--Ethan

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:26 pm

Yeap if your control room is quiet enough, just set aside a corner or wall in the room for some absorbtion material and place a seat near the wall and aim a cardioid, super cardioid, etc mic on axis about 6-9" away from your mouth.

If you dont like the sound of on axis with your voice find an axis where you do like the sound and add absorbtion products as needed. But the farther away from on axis to that wall you go the more room sound you pick up. Though you could allways build a tent with pvc and hang acoustic blankets over it.

Also try to stay away from aiming 45-90 degrees offaxis downward for the human voice it gives a "Boxy/Nasal" type tone because its picking up the sound of the chest cavity while you speak aswell. If you like that sound, then by all means go for it.

/VJ

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