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Old 3rd March 2006   #7
activexjava
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DirkB
You absolutely do not need a vocal booth when you have a decent bigger space to record vocals in.

Actually, I prefer bigger spaces for any recording situation and rather use some gobos to dampen the ambience into the mic.
In a small booth, the voice can easily get colored in a bad way when the vocalist moves away from the mic.
In general, small booth's are acoustically relatively problematic IMHO.

But lots of people get it to work, so there you have it...

Greetings,
Dirk
Hi Dirk ... I left a funny comment for you .. following your remarks about the ISA220 ..
I did a little testing yesterday .. following the thread I mentioned about bad vocals... I cranked the gain on the AT4033 .. and adjusted the compressor .. then tried to record my voice close to the mic .. and .. the voice was good .. bass components were there .. BUT .. the room reflections (as I cranked the gain high) became VERY clearly present with my voice .... it would ruin your vocal track for sure..
even though I had acoustic foam placed at the end of the room .. where my setup is installed .. I guess that would not be an issue in a vocal booth....

what do you think?..
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