Vocal booth

[Seti808]

I got a bathroom that is about 5 ft wide, 6 ft long and 9 feet tall.
At 1st I tried tracking with the bare walls and had a horrible slap back echo + crappy bathroom sound.
I added some blankets to the walls and it stopped the flutter echo.

but

My issue is the blankets are only helping the high end reflections and I have a bass problem.

I got some more blankets and some left over Auralex rubber vinyl sheets that I could put all around the bathroom.

i was wondering if blankets and vinyl can cut it?

Any suggestions?

Or is another order of realtraps for the bathroom the only way to go ?

[Ethan Winer]

Hi Seti,

> i was wondering if blankets and vinyl can cut it <

I'd love to sell you more traps , but you live far away (shipping is expensive) and a vocal booth doesn't really need substantial absorption at low frequencies. I can't imagine that vinyl barrier is useful for deadening a bathroom, but heavy blankets will certainly work in a pinch. Especially if 1) they're very thick and heavy like moving blankets, and 2) you hang them so they're spaced 3-6 inches away from the walls. Both the thickness and air gap will help to extend the absorption to lower frequencies.

--Ethan

[genericperson]

you could just stack up massive amounts of Charmin 12 packs along the walls. that will give you absorbtion and softness in multiple ways.

[primomusic]

hi guys, well I just was reading the article on acoustics that ethan wrote, very sweet man . Learned a whole lot. Well my question is this im recording and monitoring in the same room , only because theres now where else I can setup. My room is like a square box. the measurements are as follows. its 9feet in width and 8 or 9feet in height. I read this in ethans article.


"The only time you might consider making a room entirely dead is when treating a small vocal booth or a very small studio or control room - smaller than, say, ten by ten feet. When a room is very small the reflections are too short to be useful and just make the room boxy sounding. In that case the best solution is to cover all of the surfaces entirely with absorbent material and, for a studio room, add any ambience electronically later. Top"
Ethan Winner.


now since my room is like squared and it 9feet by 9feet . Could i make the sucker dead. please tell me yes , since I bought alot of foam already. I guess i what be wise since the reflection will be too short to be useful like ethan said.

thanks guys I appreciate it

[Absolute]

Originally posted by genericperson
you could just stack up massive amounts of Charmin 12 packs along the walls. that will give you absorbtion and softness in multiple ways.

yeyeyeyeyeh......softness

[primomusic]

anybody??

[primomusic]

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[primomusic]

hey ethan
hi guys, well I just was reading the article on acoustics that ethan wrote, very sweet man . Learned a whole lot. Well my question is this im recording and monitoring in the same room , only because theres now where else I can setup. My room is like a square box. the measurements are as follows. its 9feet in width and 8 or 9feet in height. I read this in ethans article.


"The only time you might consider making a room entirely dead is when treating a small vocal booth or a very small studio or control room - smaller than, say, ten by ten feet. When a room is very small the reflections are too short to be useful and just make the room boxy sounding. In that case the best solution is to cover all of the surfaces entirely with absorbent material and, for a studio room, add any ambience electronically later. Top"
Ethan Winner.


now since my room is like squared and it 9feet by 9feet . Could i make the sucker dead. please tell me yes , since I bought alot of foam already. I guess i what be wise since the reflection will be too short to be useful like ethan said.

thanks guys I appreciate it

[JohnnyTooLoud]

You might want to try posting this question directly to Ethan over at the acoustics forum on musicplayer.com.

Good luck.

--Giovanni

[Midlandmorgan]

Originally posted by genericperson
you could just stack up massive amounts of Charmin 12 packs along the walls. that will give you absorbtion and softness in multiple ways.

Is this installation surface or...er...flush mounted?