VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

so if it is 120cm x 90cm x 220cm will it ok as I do not know how to measure the right ratio
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vkuehn · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:19 pm Post subject:

I converted your metric dimensions to our state-side feet-and-inches world and you are talking about 3' x 4' x 7'3'' roughly. That is a tight fit for you to work in, but a good effort to try and shape your room to the formulas that Monk and I have referenced. From previous conversations, I am confident that several of the people who participate in VO-BB are using recording spaces of that size.

In reading conversations here and elsewhere for several years, I gather many of these people dream of eventually moving in a larger space, but you start where you can.

In a space this small you have limited options, by try to come up with a plan where the mic is not too close to one wall or the ceiling. Most male VO people are fine with a little big of Proximity Effect, You would like for your mic to have as much opportunity to "function in free space" as possible, but in a small space the mic has to be pretty close to at least one surface.

MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

You are right regarding the space as it is small indeed but this is the best I can afford for the time being.
I've some audio gear including:-
Shure SM7B - Heil PR-40 - EV RE-20
Roland TRI-CAPTURE usb interface
dbx 166xs Compressor/Limiter/Gate
dbx 286s Microphone Pre-amp Processor
Graphic EQ >>> an old one with 31 bands I guess it is 1231 (not dbx).
You mean if I stayed at any corner I will have a bad voice result!?
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vkuehn · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:13 pm Post subject:

paulstefano · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 7:07 am Post subject:

MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

Rick Riley · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:31 am Post subject:

I’ve skimmed over all the advice and bottom line, the only way you’re going to get rid of the kid noise is to get rid of the kids or move. Otherwise it’s going to have to be a compromise.

You don’t have the resources to eliminate the noise. You don’t have a big enough space and to build a booth in your bedroom enough to where it actually did eliminate the noise, well, it wouldn’t be a bedroom any more. So, work it out with the family that you are going to record at certain times and they’re going to have to be quiet by finding something to do that doesn’t involve noise. TV at low volume, computer game, board game, READING… you get the picture.

You’ve got a ton of obstacles to deal with to try to record in the house. People walking, running, talking or yelling, air conditioner noise, heating noise, just to name a few. I presume you can also hear what’s going on outside with the neighbors and the yards. Leaf blowers, mowers, cars, horns, trucks. With all that being the case, eliminate what you can as easily as you can. The only thing you really have control over is the room acoustics (reflections, etc.) and talking with the family to help dad with his work.

Compromise. As long as you’re in the house, with your family, with neighbors and don’t have thousands of dollars to throw at really isolating the noise, because with true isolation that’s what it takes, all you can do is live and work with compromises. From what I’ve come up against in working with the same conditions, that’s what I have found to be the reality.
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MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

the reality
Gasp

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todd ellis · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:45 am Post subject:

i'm just impressed by the bedroom doors! MAN are those nice!
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MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

Honestly I was expecting to hear no voice after this door but I am afraid I am still hear it while it did helped but not as expected :(
It costed me about $200 us.
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Rick Riley · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:07 am Post subject:

todd ellis · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:12 am Post subject:

is it made from unicorn horns? what is the difference between it & a 2" solid oak door? i'm not disparaging --- just curious.
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MGadAllah · Joined: 16 Mar 2016 Posts: 19 Location: EGYPT - Cairo

Nice place indeed ... god bless you my friend.
Yes your previous 1st post was just the reality ... nothing more nothing less !
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Rick Riley · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:24 am Post subject:

vkuehn · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:44 am Post subject:

dI remember as a young lad attempting to launch a broadcasting career and visiting some radio stations that had some pretty impressive doors. (I have always wondered what became of those doors as we modernized and radio moved into non-special office space on the same floor with insurance companies, collection agencies, and cosmetic surgeons.

The other thing that I remember about those installations which would be hard to duplicate in a home studio was "the sound lock". Enter the first well built solid acoustical door, let it close behind you, walk maybe six feet through an otherwise useless hallway and proceed through the second acoustical door. You could walk from the noise office of the radio station through the sound lock and into a live broadcast and introduce no noise into the broadcast.

If your home studio is in a bedroom at the end of even a short hallway, a second door across the hallway even if only 30 to 36 inches from the door of your new studio could bring a lot of isolation. If you are a do-it-yourself kind of person, that could be a little less expensive than the marvelous door Rick Riley has! (Also, not quite as isolating.)