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Many people who are starting to set up their home recording studio often get confused on what is soundproofing, and what is acoustic treatment.The materials and techniques used in soundproofing…
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In this interview Martin Morissette from 4chordsproduction shares essential set-up information for Audio Production on a budget. Included are his thoughts on the three key aspects of capturing good sound:
1) Quality of the instrument; 2) Quality of the player and, 3) Acoustic Room treatment.
Marty shares how he uses the Producer’s Choice Acoustic Blankets for recording vocals, guitar, vocals and the drums, as well as how he uses them for on-site audio recording at client locations. The portable Producers Choice Sound Blankets allow Marty to manage his recording environment, becoming his portable recording studio.
Marty publishes a weekly blog on musical production which can be found at http://4chordsproduction.com/
Sound Booth blocks noise to neighbors. This video explains how it works.
Noise from Neighbors is the number one reason for noise complaints, create a lot of animosity between neighbours.
NOISE is the UNWANTED sound, so even if the noise is within the city ordinance, people would complain if they do not like what they hear.
No matter how quiet the noise is, if it is heard next door, it can trigger the complaint.
This Singer had the problem just like that.
It got to the point that she was on the verge of choosing between her passion – singing, and her work. She had relocated for work to NY on a temporary assignment, and now she had to find an option that would allow her to keep the job, continue singing, keep friendly neighbors and not waste money on improving a rental apartment.
Sound booth from VocalBoothToGo.com solved all these issues. As an added bonus, when she leaves – she can take the booth anywhere she goes.
For more details about the product,
please go here: sound-booth-3-x-3-with-soundproofing
While attending the VOICE 2014 convention in Anaheim, CA, George took time out to review products from Vocalboothtogo.com
Featured in this review are the VB66 6×6′ Vocal Booth, the VB72G sound blanket with grommets, Vocal Booth on Tracks Ceiling Kit, Hanging Acoustic Vocal Booth, and the Voiceover Glove “Gizmo” hand mounted mic shield.
You might have seen portable vocal booths made out of a box with acoustic foam lining.
Whoever used such a box knows that the audio recorded in it sounds boomy and boxy.
In this video we explore a different aspect of the acoustic foam: how healthy is it?
We heard many complaints from people who had used a vocal booth or sound booth with acoustical foam as acoustic treatment inside.
The complaint is that after some time the foam absorbs smells and starts to stink, especially if different people are using it.
A director of communication technology in one of the US Universities told us that they had such a problem, when using a Mobile vocal booths for students, Especially it is a concern during a flu season. They tried to use Lysol to disinfect the foam, and deodorants to mask the smell, but after some time the chemicals start to disintegrate within the foam and the smell becomes even worse! What to do?
Acoustical foam is widely used as means of sound absorption and acoustic room treatment.
What makes acoustical foam absorb sound is an open cell structure, with long tunnels going through the foam.
Sound gets into the openings and loses its energy in the long twisted channels.
The acoustical foam has to have the open channels so the sound can get in. if you think of it – the foam is like a sponge.
but what else gets into the open channels? what else gets absorbed by the foam?
If the open cell acoustic foam behaves like a sponge, then it can also absorb and retain dust, mold spores, allergens, bacteria and viruses.
What happens to the germs and allergens that landed on the foam?
Warm, dark environment seems to be an ideal place for mold and fungi to grow…
Mold spores, allergens or viruses trapped in the foam can potentially contaminate the next user when the foam gets disturbed.
Because the acoustic foam is an open cell material with long channels it cannot be easily washed.
If water gets in, it would stay in those channels and cannot fully evaporate. On the other hand, how can you wash the foam? In most cases it is glued to the wall, you can’t take it off, it is too fragile to be properly washed.
How can you keep it clean and healthy?
There is a healthier alternative to Foam: truly portable vocal booth – Carry–on Vocal Booth, available from http://www.VocalBoothToGo.com. Carry on Vocal Booth is made out of Producer’s Choice Acoustic Blanket. Material with very high Noise Reduction coefficient ( NRC 0.8)
Carry on Vocal Booth gives a great sounding recording – no boxiness and no boominess,
Some voice over actors told us that since they started using the Carry-on Vocal booth for book narration their publisher told them that it was the best sound they ever had!
Carry-on Vocal booth is a great tool for travelling voice actor. It is light weight, durable, portable, easy to set up, versatile and can carry all your recording gear as well!
if it gets dirty in travels – you can easily remove the Sound absorbing liner and wash it in a washing machine.
Most importantly it allows you to record great sound anywhere!
When Michael treated his podcast audio recording studio with Producer’s Choice Acoustic blankets he was amazed by the results!
We spoke with Michael about his podcast, his satisfaction with the efficiency of our sound blankets and more. You can see compete interview here: http://youtu.be/nHS9FMs32bo
Being a professional drummer, Michael needed to stop the sound from escaping the room, so he can play his drums. He hung two layers of producers choice sound blankets around the room, and covered windows with additional layer of acoustic blankets from VocalBoothToGo.com.
This allowed him to create a completely dead sounding recording studio and soundproof his drum room at the same time!
You can listen to Michael’s award winning show at www.solopreneurhour.com.
To get sound blankets for soundproofing and acoustic treatment of your recording studio go to http://www.vocalboothtogo.com
Ever wondered how professional podcasters get their sound right? Are you a drummer and have issues with your neighbors?
Michael O’Neal, a professional drummer and podcaster, explains how he managed to kill two birds with one stone: soundproof his drum room to avoid neighbor’s complaints and create an acoustically treated audio recording room at the same time!
Michael hosts a podcast with the goal to help people to make that important step to become successful on their own. You can listen to his award winning show at www.solopreneurhour.com.
As the show became more and more successful Michael needed to come up with a solution to improve the sound quality in his studio and at the same time, being a drummer, he needed to stop the sound from escaping the room so he can play his drums!
Previously, Michael tried to use acoustics gobos, but that did not help much. It might have done something to cut early reflections, but did nothing to stop sound transmission. Outside the room his drums were heard loud and clear.
After thorough research he found Producer’s Choice Acoustic blankets. Michael treated his studio with these sound blankets and he was amazed by the results!
Michael also gives useful tips to fellow drummers to avoid potential conflicts with new neighbors.
You can get the same sound blankets that Michael uses for soundproofing and acoustic treatment of his podcast recording studio from http://www.vocalboothtogo.com
Voice actor and news anchor Dave Courvoisier reviews the portable vocal booth, the Carry-on Vocal Booth Pro and interviews VocalBoothToGo.com’s President and Founder Adil Aliev.
Courvosieir highlights VocalBoothToGo.com’s acoustic treatment and soundproofing products and use in home studios. He talks with Aliev about how the company was founded.
When voice actor Michael Johnston needed to record an urgent job for a client, Vocal booth and home studio guru George Whittam of EDGE Studio and EWAB recommended Carry-on Vocal Booth Pro.
In this video you can compare a sound track when recorded outside of the portable vocal booth and then inside the booth.
The exact same test narration was recorded at the same time using two microphones. One was positioned outside the vocal booth and the other (visible in the video) was placed inside the booth. There was no editing or any sort of audio manipulation was done to any soundtracks. The first audio with live video action is from outside microphone and the second (still images) .
If you need to do acoustic room treatment with sound absorbing panels or acoustic blankets and have a drop ceiling in your room, this video will be very helpful. It suggest a neat way to hang acoustic blankets from a drop ceiling without any drilling or installing any additional screws. Out of Producer’s Choice Blankets, we created a space 6 feet x 6 feet with blankets covering the entire wall from floor to ceiling. Total cost ( not including the blankets) was under $10.
If you noticed we did not hang the blankets flush with the wall. This is very important for better sound absorption and noise reduction. That extra air space makes a lot of difference.
To see how effective these blankets are, watch our video showing how well these blankets performed when treating a drum room.
In this video you can see how to set up the Carry on Vocal booth Pro.
The booth comes with metal support table, support arches and fiberglass support rods already installed.
Additional included items are : MicroMic Stand, Miniboom, Light and Microphone Mounting bracket.
MicroMic stand is good on the road or table top set up, where you might not be able to have regular microphone stand.
Microphone mounting Bracket is designed to work together with support table and go onto a Microphone Stand shaft.
Miniboom can be mounted onto the Micro Mic stand or Over a regular microphone stand and provide adjustable support for a microphone, script holder, pop filter or other attachments.
Light can be attached to the front or the back arch support of the portable vocal booth with Velcro strips.
Additional accessories that are available from http://www.VocalBoothToGo.com site are Copy holder (works with pretty much any tablet), Microphone stand, Pop Filter ( with or Without goose neck attachment), accessory bag.
Carry on Vocal Booth is allowed in most aircraft as a carry on luggage. In some cases we were told that the booth was placed in a separate cargo department on the plane ( like they do with strollers).
Booth size folded 22 x 4 x 22 inches,
Booth Size open 22 W x 20 H x 20 Deep.
Weight 12 lbs.
to listen how the Carry-on Vocal Booth actually works watch this video: http://youtu.be/GKKnQB4c68A
Thank you for watching.
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