#3 - Pro Vocal Booth & Production Room For Cheap

DUBturbo presents: (Step By Step Instructions & Pics Below ) How to build your own sound booth and recording room for cheap.

See step by step pics at: http://forums.nichechoppers.com/showt...

This is a personal journal video as I convert two rooms in our new unit into acoustically treated recording and production rooms with a sound booth conversion in the closet.

Soundtrack from: http://www.artofbeats.com

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It took me about 4hrs in total once the closet was emptied.

*GET A FAN GOING FULL BLAST nearby if you plan on using spray glue.

*Plan ahead so you have a good idea of what odd pieces you'll need in the end.

*Don't forget about the ceiling and the floor, both must be treated or you'll lose 50% or more of your sound treatment.

*Once you've covered all the surface areas, you may want to cut out single or double strips of the foam and hit all four edges along each corner, and along the ceiling/floor. You'll notice it's hard to totally cover all angles without treating the seams of the walls/floor separately.

*You can use 3/4" nails to get the foam in place/hold it there before OR after you glue. I ended up having to nail both my main room and vocal booth in full as well as glue both.

*If you come up just short on the floor, use another piece anyway, you want to overlap your floor a bit if you can so it's easier to meet with your carpet/blanket/whatever you use to treat your floor.

*You will want to drill a hole in your door about the size of a golf ball to fit your wires through for your mic(s), a light, a small vent/fan, computer screen/keyboard etc. Once the wires are through simply use more foam to cover the rest from both sides.

*Hang a sound proof sheet on the inside of the closet overlapping all the edges of the doorway to create another seal. You may or may not want to re-inforce your door with some weight and some foam depending on how loud the room is outside of the booth.

*Get weather stripping and line it along the edges of all doors in the room.
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Congratulations, you've just built a professional sound booth!!!!!!

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[Sambinothaking]

im not a professional but im pretty sure this will not sound good. I would not follow this if you r trying to build a booth. Unless you are rich and you got alot of money to throw away. Thats closet is toooooo small for a vocal booth and for all that padding. frequencies will get cluttered

[DubTurboBeats]

@Sambinothaking

It's all about experimenting and doing the most with what you got.Consider:

* the room outside the booth is treated too - I can record with the door open/half open/etc to achieve a certain sound.

* Remove/add foam at will to increase or decrease the dampness/tighness.

* Bring in elements/bass traps/wood/water/different mics to get even more balanced sound.

* Curtain is optional.

* I use cardoid, condensor, and dynamic mics, all have different needs.

[FRNKNSTNmusic]

I've always been charismatic and tall, jaded, dramatic, and bald. Nice.

[DubTurboBeats]

@FRNKNSTNmusic

Cheers :) - Jaded Dramatic and Ball - double dares manage 'em all, so I'm a spit some truth, rather spit bars about gatherin ars-enol and after his car explodes I'll drive through on cruise... Intro from an old track I wrote under 'nfinite conciousness' should be in youtube somewhere..

[newmusicbeats]

keep it up, im pretty much doing the exact same thing in my studio

[DubTurboBeats]

@newmusicbeats

Cool shit, post it and hollar when you do I'd love to see.

[DubTurboBeats]

@therealfactor

Thank you for watching my video :)

[MylesPerDread]

edward norton has a studio?

[DMAN71711]

small closets are horiable for recording vocals,you cant get away from the sound,,, fact,, that your in a box..the foam is only for high freq range absorbtion,it does nothing for the bottom end.anyone watching this would be better off tracking vocals from the main room and stay out of the closet..your vocal will sound cleaner and more open...

[GhettoPunktual]

@Sambinothaking good opinion. what do u think about a fully foamed vocal room? i am turning a room into a vocal room and and have been foaming it. i plan on foamint it all. the floor is carpet. will the frequencies still get cluttered? i figured foaming it all is the best way to get a natural sounding recordings.

[tehchosenyoutubr]

and.. $3 for the foam?  or did you mean $300, just wondering

[tehchosenyoutubr]

the music makes it impossible to tell the quality of the dampening, especially if its WAY too loud

[shady1genius]

@sambucafish

THANK YOU VERY MUCH i APPRECiATE iT

[sambucafish]

@shady1genius Wedge foam

[pmrpimp]

How many foam pieces did you put in the booth? I'm planning on making a booth with studio foam but my closet is a bit bigger.

[shady1genius]

KAN ANY ONE HELP ME BY ANSWERING THIS QUESTION;

WHICH FOAM IS BETTER PYRAMID FOAM OR WEDGE FOAM