VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

BALKY · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: BOOTH

Hey guys!

I have finally decided to buy myself a vocal booth. I spoke with a sales person of this company and got a price quote of 5,300.00 for Gold Series booth.

The question now arises where to get that much money in one lumpsum. Frown

Has any one of you ever dealt with this company vocalbooth.com ?

Perhaps there's another place where I can get a booth cheapper? I know that if I built it myself, it would be considerably cheapper except I am not that skilled, of course, unfortunately!

Anyway, hope to hear from you soon! THnks

Pavel
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Balky do a search. This topic has been discussed a lot. I think you'll find quite a bit.
Personally I have no experience with them..

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Whisper Room does a great booth, in my opinion.

One of their 3X5's would probably be in the $5000 range.

Philip Banks · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

Do not buy it you will be disappointed!

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Bill Campbell · DC Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 621

Professional VO in top studios is rarely recorded in a small dead sounding box. Most studios in LA and NY are usually at least 12x12 and relatively quiet. No matter what size room you have, just get rid of reflections from walls and glass for a good sound.

My room is 8x10. On two of the four walls I hanged corduroy drapes from ceiling to floor ($50). Quiet, little reflection, not quite dead, and certainly not "boxy". Just doing two walls is all you need. Pick a color that energizes you (red?).
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louzucaro · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:58 am Post subject:

I have a 4x6 Whisper Room and I really like it. My only real complaint with it is that there are only two pass-through holes for cables and that's not nearly enough.

The holes are about 1.5" and plugged with dense rubber plugs (they look like corks) with little cut-outs so that cables can be run through them. Each plug has two holes, so you can pass 4 cables total (or a couple more if they're the skinny kind that are attached to a power brick). Again, not nearly enough. I have around 9 or 10 cables going into the booth so I had to do some serious finagling, including running some cables through the vent ducts which, let me tell you, was a pain.

But then again, it did only take a few hours and once it was done it was done.

Overall, I'm very happy with it.
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CarynClark · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:06 am Post subject:

At the Voice 2008 conference, they had a booth set up by VocalBooth. The VocalBooth guy was VERY nice!

It was pretty large... I dunno, maybe 6x8? I did an ISDN session in it, and the studio on the other end complained about the sound they were getting.

So, to me, that's not a good sign.
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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

louzucaro · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:18 am Post subject:

Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Hey Lou,

I have a 4x4 Whisper Room, like Rob, and thought I only had two cable ports, but I found a third along one of the side walls. Give it a look, again.

BTW, I purchased two bass traps from Guitar Center: one sits behind me in the corner, the other I shoved up into the corner behind my music stand and mic. The latter is what truly killed my boom. I also purchased a window which keeps the room "alive."

Dan

Bruce · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:12 am Post subject:

I'd say build your own sound proof environment. It's much less expensive and only a few people are in such a terrible environment that they need a glorified phone booth to read in. There's tons of information in here from people who have sound proofed their spaces.

I will say that using a highly directional mic like the 416 and a wee bit of gating on my mic's channel has eliminated almost all of my extraneous noise problems. Cheating, I know, but it works.

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BenWils · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:31 am Post subject:

Interesting with the cork thing in the pass through. I guess that is needed with a double walled booth. I have a singe wall GK/Soundsuckers Booth with an added layer of heavy load vinyl installed and it has one pass through. They take a small strip of the foam that lines the booth and roll it like cinnamon roll. So basically your cords are to get rolled in the "roll" and then you stuff that tightly in the pass through hole. I hear no sound leak from it.

Here is my booth with a new monitor and shelf I installed recently. The monitor is a 24" so I can mirror my Apple Display outside the booth. I had a smaller monitor and it was messing up the monitor outside by dropping down to the lowest common resolution....so the bigger mirrors directly now at 1900 x 1200. The only thing is, for a really long session, I would never the monitor. It heats up nicely. But for quick sessions and auditions....it is golden having it in there. Plus, it has livened up the booth a bit without sounding like I am hearing any reflections.

I also have bass traps running floor to ceiling, except for the side with the shelf. One below...one up top. The other side has floor to ceiling bass traps and the side with the door has smaller 6" bass traps just to de-sqaure the booth. In the upper areas you can see that took some of the extra foam sent with the booth and rolled it....again in an attempt to de-square the booth as much as possible.

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