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If you are trying to cut down on natural reverb in the room from getting into the vocal mic the thing to do is put your absoption BEHIND the singer facing the mic. I don't understand why people screw this up so much. A cardioid mic already rejects from the back but the human voice is relatively omni-directional. So if you put the absorption behind the mic you kill a little bit of voice from going out into the room, but the rest of it bounces around the room and goes right into the front of the mic where the mic is DESIGNED to pick it up! If you put the absorption behind the singer (best is to make a "V" shape or semi-circle with the legs equal to placement of the mic or further), then their voice goes out into the room, but it can't get back into the mic because it has to go through all the absorption. The only stuff that gets into the mic has to go in at the NULL point of the mic so it's already being rejected.
So what the original poster said is really ideal. Cover a corner and point the mic into that corner. That will generally work MUCH better than puttign absorption behind the mic.
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