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Old 4th March 2006   #10
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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

I agree completely !

The only "advantage" of a vocal booth is seperation. Otherwise just a nice sounding room is great and a nice sounding room is typically on the bigger side.



Jose I use a monitor with most of my vocalists and I never have problems with bleed even when they`re cranked up a bit. Headphones are the anti-christ ! Get the room shaking a bit and see how much better the vocalist sings !
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