Vocal Booth Design Help!

Vocal Booth Design Help! I need to build a vocal booth, I'm a student sound engineer looking for a cheap solution so I can work at home and generate good, quality recordings. I have seen: http://www.dawbox.com They look great but have a suspicion that it is a bit of a con and my reasons for thinking this is because I think I would need a lot more absorption that it looks in the the pictures. Is there any other solutions out there, I have looked at: http://www.acoustimac.com And was considering making some panels up but I don't like this idea too much as I want to not only get a good result from my recordings but look professional at the same time. Could I make some kind of booth from panels? Can any body help me understand 3D acoustics a bit better? Should I just get a portable solution for now? like the SE reflection units out there? or alternatives? PLEASE COME FORWARD WITH SOME IDEAS, SUGGESTIONS I think it will benefit a lot of people

What would benefit a lot of people is to know where you are in this big old world. Then for you to take some time and refine your search engine skills to get the answer to these types of questions. It's been asked and it has been answered. That is the purpose of such an information textured forum as this one is. The information is there, look and ye shall receive :) And right before you poke my eye out because you think I am not helpful to your cause, read them stickies! Read them and apply what you discover, it is important or they would not exist!

Thats bit harsh I have tried searching thought I would try the forum to cut down on time as I find it easier to learn if pointed in the right direction

That isn't even close to harsh. What is harsh is your cutting down on the time by asking someone else to do your job and you still will not give any information that the people can use. Where do you live, geographically speaking?

Exactly. Not harsh at all. Just what Brien said. There is an announcement at the top of the forum about what to do to assure getting as many responses as possible. The announcement leads to this post (click here). Actually, several people, who are experts on this forum, will not reply if you don't do what is written in that post. Many others who are very helpful, will not reply out of respect for the moderators' wishes. Folks here will bend over backwards to help you if they see you doing everything you possible can do help yourself first, but I don't think they'll be too keen on doing your homework for you. Come up with a basic design, based on the solid and proven principles outlined all over this forum and in the best books on the subject, post your design here, ask questions about it, and you stand a really good chance of getting constructive criticism, which may well be harsh too, but it will be good, sound, scientific advice, based on real principles of acoustics, the best advice you can get for free on the internet, and it will NOT be the typical stuff you see all over about egg-crates being great for treating walls, and carpet being good on the ceiling. So if you want the best advise possible, stick around and do the research, post your ideas, and ask questions. - Stuart -

Thanks, Stuart I now understand why perhaps I misunderstood users intentions. I've not been on many forums and I did not realize there was any rules or how people behave. I to be honest am I little lost with regards to design I have looked across the web and seemed to find very little in the range of budget vocal booths. I was thinking about using the whole room as a booth but I did not was this as I think it will be too much of a challenge as the room which I want to use has loads of short hi end reflections due to lack of absorbent material and also almost all walls are parallel like a rectangle and I also thought it would be more professional as I'm only going to be record vocals to present In a booth. I was thinking about a basic box 4 ft x 4 ft x 7 ft then covering the insides with absorbent material (foam). If people think it may be better to use the room then the rooms dimensions are 4m x 3m on one wall then 1/5m by 4m on the opposite wall then two side walls are 2/5m wide and come from 1/5m high to 3m high as the ceiling has a slant. The walls are plasterboard and I'm renting at the moment. I understand that a lot of people on this site have a lot more experience than me I feel rather stupid not being able to keep up with what's going on. A little about me might help people: I'm a student in the UK (england) studying sound engineering BSc at solent university as you may be able to tell i've only just started this course. but have a good amount of experience using pro tools, cubase, waves, logic and many more. I'm more of a producer than an engineer specializing more in the song content rather than how it's being recorded but I'm looking to change this. I have tried to do my research and have found some links as mentioned in previous posts I am on this forum not to soak up information from others but to hopefully develop my skills and to contribute later. If I have left any information out please guild me on this as I'm still new on this forum and am a little unsure on how to go about posting information still

Part of it depends on your needs in terms of isolation for the singer and good sound. I personally would never build a 4'x4'x7' vocal booth, generally such rooms are far too small to add anything like useful room sound. Additionally, you don't want 2 dimensions to be the same. For more of my thoughts on this subject, see this article.

Thanks for your reply I've had a small look I personally want to record professionally I want to do overdub vocals for bands and voice overs I suppose I would need some ambient room sound what would you recommend for a vocal booth?