Vocal Booth or No Vocal Booth?

[Arqen]

I would focus on iscolating the full control room. When you record vocals, you can construct a temporatry vocal booth using broadband absorptive panels, or a product like PVB.

[xaMdaM]

15x9x8 is just barely a vocal booth as it is... 4.5x5.2x8ft is a nice mic locker, storage closet, amp iso or some combination of the three... but it's certainly not all that worthy of being called a vocal booth.

[Glenn Kuras]

I agree with the above. If the control rooms acoustics are done right there is no reason you can not also record in that room. In the end it should cost you less and sound MUCH better.

[sumbody]

Much appreciated

xaMdaM-lol I thought as much!

[legato]

I hate vocal booths.

Especially for singing.

Many like 'em, though.

Don't like headphones, either.

I guess I'm strange.





Henk

[limey222]

Interesting opinion, many companies that manufacture vocal booths have models that fall within that size range and even smaller from 4 x 4 up to 16' x 16'. 4' x 6' is very common in small studios. After all you are going for isolation not room acoustics.

Originally Posted by xaMdaM

15x9x8 is just barely a vocal booth as it is... 4.5x5.2x8ft is a nice mic locker, storage closet, amp iso or some combination of the three... but it's certainly not all that worthy of being called a vocal booth.

[jwl]

Good advice. Tiny booths (especially tiny booths where the dimensions are related, such as 4x4x8) are really hard to get a good sound in.

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