Sound Absorption Blankets - How good are they?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 99 posts since 12 May, 2003 from Canada
I'm trying to come up with an affordable but effective way to achieve the same as a vocal booth, ie:
a) reduce reverberations
and
b) reduce sound level emanating out (I don't want my neighbours to hear me singing)
Anyone know if sound absorption blankets would help achieve the above, let's say if I were within a "cave" of said blankets?
Call me crazy, but hey.
a) reduce reverberations
and
b) reduce sound level emanating out (I don't want my neighbours to hear me singing)
Anyone know if sound absorption blankets would help achieve the above, let's say if I were within a "cave" of said blankets?
Call me crazy, but hey.
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Dean Aka Nekro Dean Aka Nekro https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=162100
- KVRAF
- 6178 posts since 4 Oct, 2007 from Escaped At Last
They can work rather well, However to do so they need a 3 layers with some space inbetween, Sort of like this | | | (if that makes sense?) The middle layer being the most dense. Hope that helps some, If you were to hang a few blankets around it would only touch the high frequencies and aid little in reducing emanating levels outwards. DIY is probably you best friend here and go dipping in SOS mags website for all the studio SOS articles as I'm sure they have put together/built a few over the years
Dean
Dean
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Dean Aka Nekro Dean Aka Nekro https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=162100
- KVRAF
- 6178 posts since 4 Oct, 2007 from Escaped At Last
Oh no, nothing like that, It means SoundOnSound magazine, Here is a link to the articles which might be of use to you leroik:
http://www.soundonsound.com/search?Keyword=studio+SOS
For example
http://www.soundonsound.com/search?Keyword=studio+SOS
For example
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- KVRian
- 921 posts since 14 May, 2010 from Atlanta, GA
The cheapest, bestest isolation solution I've found for home or apartment vocal recording is a closet full of clothes.
Put your mic just inside the closet, and while monitoring with headphones, find the optimum distance where you hear the room and early reflections from the closet walls the least. You'll be surprised how well it works, and costs nothing!
KVR/eSoundz: Xenobt
Put your mic just inside the closet, and while monitoring with headphones, find the optimum distance where you hear the room and early reflections from the closet walls the least. You'll be surprised how well it works, and costs nothing!
KVR/eSoundz: Xenobt
- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
no an SOB is a cool old amp by Mesa/Boogieleroik wrote:Thanks Dean!
What does SOS mean, by the way? Is it like SOB?
Are you trying to make a booth in a room so others in the room or an open mic in the room wont hear/pick up you? Are you trying to make a booth in a room so people outside of the room but in the same building wont hear you? Or are you trying to make a booth so the mic in the booth wont pick up outside sounds?
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- KVRAF
- 8181 posts since 22 Sep, 2008 from Windsor. UK
The most effective home solution is to build a DIY vocal gobo like this :-
I'd use Rockwool RW3 instead of fibre glass and then cover the entire thing with suitable fabric. You'll also do well to put the mic inside as in the picture, and then get a reflection screen on the mic stand as well giving you a fully enclosed space to record in. The entire thing could be built for less than $100.
I'd use Rockwool RW3 instead of fibre glass and then cover the entire thing with suitable fabric. You'll also do well to put the mic inside as in the picture, and then get a reflection screen on the mic stand as well giving you a fully enclosed space to record in. The entire thing could be built for less than $100.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
well then you'll be surprised how much the empty the air in the room will do if you build a booth within that room. You are not talking a lot of bass here at high volumes but I would still try and get if off the floor a little. I have an isolation cabinet for my guitar amps and it's far from perfect in the room with me but my cab is about 6 or 7 feet from the door to the common hall in my apartment building and cranked up in the hall it sounds like an old transistor radio if you really try to listen for it. In adjoining apartments or even in other rooms in the apartment you can't hear it all.leroik wrote:I'm trying to make a "booth" in a room so people outside of the room but in the same building wont hear me.
Before that I had a 4x12 in a closet full of clothes and it worked oky but outside noise came in and I could not crank it up when the wife was sleeping. I have done this for vox as well and it works pretty good. I think the blankets with some foam to cut down on the reflections in your booth should do the trick.
Here's a place for good deals on foam if you do not want to pay auralex's prices, check ebay for them because they have "ebay bundles". (like 48 sq' for 40 dollars) I suspect for killing the reflections 1" foam will do the trick, I added 1" foam to my iso cab and while it did not make a huge difference in blocking sound it does change the dynamics of the cab quite a bit
http://www.foambymail.com/acoustical-foam-products.html
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- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
that's nicetehlord wrote:The most effective home solution is to build a DIY vocal gobo like this :-
I'd use Rockwool RW3 instead of fibre glass and then cover the entire thing with suitable fabric. You'll also do well to put the mic inside as in the picture, and then get a reflection screen on the mic stand as well giving you a fully enclosed space to record in. The entire thing could be built for less than $100.
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 99 posts since 12 May, 2003 from Canada
Thanks guys! Really glad to see some ideas to go on here.
I was thinking of making a "half booth", which I haven't seen or heard of and, as well as being off the floor, it would take up less space. I'd just have to elevate it from the floor somehow.
I was thinking of making a "half booth", which I haven't seen or heard of and, as well as being off the floor, it would take up less space. I'd just have to elevate it from the floor somehow.
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VitalMastering VitalMastering https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=287565
- KVRer
- 8 posts since 9 Sep, 2012 from NYC
just build some bass traps. you have a lot of DIY options out there that will work much better. but blankets are better than nothing i guess
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- KVRAF
- 1612 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Salt Lake City, Utah
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- KVRian
- 522 posts since 19 Jul, 2007 from Netherlands
+1ObiK wrote:Ive used moving blankets a lot hung off of a photo background stand. Works amazingly and was dirt cheap. I got the stand for $30 over 10' long and extends to 12' high!
I also have good (enough) experience with suspending wool blankets on the ceiling...
You might also try to build a head-compartment. That's like a mini-booth you just put your head in. But this doesn't dampen the sound in such a way your neighbors will not hear it... or your sleeping wife for that matter...
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