Creating a Recording Dead Zone

**Professionality** · 05-02-2012

I don't have any space in my future home studio for a vocal booth. I'm on a tight budget. My room itself isn't completely dead yet and I've been thinking about buying some EZ Hang acoustic blankets and hanging them from hooks in the ceiling in a portion of the studio, "boxing" the microphone off from everything else. This way I can also take them down when I'm not recording anybody.

The blankets are only 6 feet tall and my ceiling is probably a good 9 feet. This would leave 3 feet open from the ground. Would any sound be able to enter the recording from underneath?

Also, would the blankets hanging alone be enough to deaden the sound inside the "boxed" area? There's not really ambient noise in my studio other than a very quiet PC. I'm mainly just concerned about those nasty natural reverbs.

Sorry if these are all noob questions. Thanks for any input guys.

**troll33** · 05-07-2012

Hi, I have studied this in college. You can work out how reverberant your room is by listing the square footage of each material in the room and looking up the absorption rates. But I guess your room isn't huge, if you are interested then let me know. It's a bit too much to go into on this post. I really wouldn't worry too much, I have just hung up some curtains around the walls for now. At college we used acoustic tiles which you can find on amazon amazon.co.uk/Studio-50-Acoustic-Tiles-Pack/dp/B002G38QIM if you look at the ones in the top right they are only £25 and I'm sure it would be enough for what you want. I also wouldn't worry about the ceiling or covering all the walls. A few strategically placed panels will be fine. If you want info on calculating the reverberation time of your room get in touch at trollsmusicpro.co or Facebook mytrol pageov or troll33 at sound cloud. Hope this has helped.