#HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP VOCAL BOOTH HOW TO#

With just fabric it sounds like a closet with foam it's 'dead'. Weakest link in that wall stays the door though, so keep an eye for the door as wellД¬lick to expand.Yeah, I know it won't be perfect at all, but the foam really does help compared to nothing at all. ThatВґs about as sound-proof as it gets, literally nothing is able to pass through. The edges were treated with compressing foam band, it seals small gaps from 3-15mm by self-expansion. Filling material is 50/50 wool and styrofoam. 15mm wooden boards as walls, dampened with bitumen all over from the inside, plastered from the outside. ItВґs 28cm thick in total, made of 4x25cm wooden planks as the base structure. Myself, I built a sound-proof wall which divides one big room into two smaller rooms, which now make the studio. ItВґs not there to do the soundproofing anyway. The foam you linked is too expensive for the fact it doesnВґt do anything usable at all IВґd go with at least 10cm thickness, plain form and no fancy pyramid shit (!), 100x50cm, 10 pieces, and put some additional bracing behind the boards. That really is a problematic frequency area for any recording. On top of that your walls might resonate somewhere around that area as well, because very light foam doesnВґt prevent them from doing so. I did make a ventilation system with a fan that I never installed in the old booth but I did survive without it.Дў cm foam is not able to absorb a lot (close to nothing) below 2kHz, so all your fundamentals and mids will be bouncing around the booth. I might even add layer of polar fleece that I can paint to get something that's a bit dense.Дo you think the 45mm wool will be enough to reduce the noise? Then there's latex filler and spray on foam insulation in the corners. It's used under flooring.ДЄnd I can cover the booth on the inside twice and the outside once. It's a paper and fabric mix that's 0,7mm thick. Maybe it is painters foil? Paper was a poor translation on my part. I'll be making the new booth taller than the old one. It's not going to be Abbey Road Studios, but at least I'll be able to record again. Nothing I felt impacted what the mics pick up.ДҐ pieces of 40 x 60 x 2 cm foam, for under 16в‚¬: I know it's not a lot of money for some, but I'm on a tight budget.Д¬lick to expand.I never actually had a problem with the resonance, it was a bit boomy but the foam for the car speakers works okay. It's going to be twice the cost, when everything is purchased, of the estimate above. Then I'll add a mat/covering to the flooring and I might need another bag of dampening foam. On top of that is foam and insulation for the corners, hinges for a door, and paint. The frame, glass wool, and two layers of polar fleece. Or instead of paper I could add a couple of layers of 2mm (0.078') Polyethylene foam/plastic, that's used under floors, to keep the wool in place.ДЄnd then on the inside I can use a layer of polare fleece before the dampening foam. I still have to saw, but hey, it's the cheapest option I can think of. I'll use latex sealer (for windows) in the corners, then some spray on foam to cover any airpockets in the wool and also in the corners to keep it in place. Then a couple of layers of paint, and lastly the acoustic dampening foam.

Then adding some thin (thicker than regular paper) paper to seal in the wool on both sides. My current idea is to make walls out of 45x45mm (1,77') wood stud as a frame and filling it with 45mm glass wool. The floor would have extra studs and a wooden square to stand on. Or even 90cm to save space, but still enough to fit a guitar or cab in there. There's one company that cuts board to specification but the price is too much (for me in my situation). Hate the sawing and I want something lighter that I can tear down again if need be. I really don't want to use wood board again.

#HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP VOCAL BOOTH HOW TO#

I've gone through different ideas now on how to make it a cheap build (that would be easy to do at home). Though it's pretty pointless now that it's gone.

Was planning on showing the whole process at some point. The old booth was (outside to in) Wood, isolation foam, two layers of fabric, acoustic dampening foam. Pics from the process of building old one: I think the booth was really dead inside and I never worried about the acoustics. That's what I'd like to achieve again so I won't be disturbing the neighbours. The old booth worked great and I could sing, and scream., in the middle of the night. I've built one before that was super budget.Д«ut I had to tear it down recently for reasons (I did save the acoustic dampening foam).

How to make a cheap vocal booth