Mattress Recording Booth

[youngdeuce954]

So I put together a lil ghetto booth. One wall is dry wall and the other three are are mattresses. It's about 3x3. Is this actually going to accomplish making my vocals sound any more professional or am I better off just putting my mic in the middle of my room?

 

[Beats_BANG!]

3 by 3 is going to make it sound like you recorded in a cardboard box. Its too small. Go for something like 5 by 4, or whatever just don't use a square, think rectangle.

Any way you go without the right amount of diffusion (breaking up the waves so that they don't reflect back at the mic) and absorbtion (thick material "soaking" up the waves, basically what your doing) your recordings will sound dry, in fact probably too dry, like they're lifeless.

Here's what I do:

I took a partician (like a little folding wall) hung a couple towels and a comforter on it, placed the mic in the middle with the sides forming a 'v' around the mic, and I just left the back open, it absorbs the reflections the the artists voice make, but leaves a little air in the recordings, they come out great.

 

[FUNKNSTIEN]

^^^yea what he said

im sure with some creativity you can create the same idea as BANG with your abundance of mattresessesess

 

[Weasel9992]

I took a partician (like a little folding wall) hung a couple towels and a comforter on it, placed the mic in the middle with the sides forming a 'v' around the mic, and I just left the back open, it absorbs the reflections the the artists voice make, but leaves a little air in the recordings, they come out great.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Beats the living heck out of a 3'x3' made with mattresses. Most people are much better off just recording from an open room than recording from a closet or any other tiny, closed-in space

Frank

 

[Beats_BANG!]

That's what I used to do, just stick the mic out in the room, but there was waaay too much reverb in the room, and sometimes you could here the echo if there was dead space in the vocals. Putting that partition in front of the artists (but behind the mic) made a world of difference, they're voice was being projected that way and it would bounce rightoff the wall in front of them, right back to the mic again. With the back end being opened it still let's the studio "ambience" back into the vocals, thus making it sound alive.

You can still build your own vocal booth, but you just have to make it right, which most people can't do.

 

[youngdeuce954]

Yes I have an abundance of mattressses.. Lol.. My boarding school just ordered new ones and they have about 70 old ones stacked outside my dorm.. Ima figure summin creative out.. Thanks for the advice..