Sound Proof Vocal Booth

Hello all. I'm getting ready to build my studio, in some commercial space. I use to have it in my bedroom. While in the bedroom I had the following materical covering on my walls to help with sound bouncing around: - AUDIMUTE PRO ACOUSTICAL COVERING (NRC=.70): - Got it off ebay - http://cgi.ebay.com/Home-Soundproofing- ... dZViewItem Would this material still work inside my new vocal booth, instead of the foam??

Looks like plain curtain/wool to me. Not to deep. What is it, 1/2 inch? It'll sure demp in mid/high range, so for vocal booth it'll do something maybe. But without SPECS there's no way of telling what'll happen. There's some PDF on http://www.audimute.com/ to be found tho. Seems like some cheap way of making money. The "mega clips" are just plain old glueclips (or whatever the name). You can get those at your local hardware store for a few cents. Well, why not measure your vocal booth before and after and you(we)'ll know what it's worth. In general I'd stay away from such ebay resellers). Besides it might be much cheaper to DIY with wool. You don't need to worry about long RT in small vocal booths. There's a lot of reflections going on. Absorption IS advised, but again I'd go broadband frequency absorption (and thicker wool absorbers) (NRC measurement is not full frequency range. It's human vocal range. So be carefull using it as an absolute) ps. could you put that LONG link between URL tags?

The info on how to make long links NOT cause side-scrolling is located here http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3231 which is supposed to be required reading before posting - might wanna review it... Steve

Ah yes, another "soundproofing" snake oil con joins the ranks. :roll: Soundproofing my ass. :roll: Where do these a-holes get the gall?

I was recommended the Audimute blankets by an associate of mine who I regularly hire to do sound for film and video work (field mixing, studio recording, etc.). He's got a studio in his house which is very small, and every now and then he needs to do a bigger setup there. He bought a bunch of the Audimute blankets and hung them from horizontal bars attached to C-stands (for those of you not in the video industry, a C-stand is a very heavy duty light stand). Basically created a 10x8 framework within his living room, and used the Audimute blankets to create a wall all the way around (a make-shift room within a room). It wasn't soundproof by any means, but it absorbed enough of the outside sounds and dampened any slap-back in the room that he was able to do ADR (advanced dialogue replacement, aka looping) for a movie soundtrack he was posting. They're not perfect, but they do absorb much more than ordinary moving blankets and most other similar products, and he often uses them in the field to build a make shift sound booth when on location on a video/film shoot, if there's a particularly important piece of quiet dialogue and extensive outside sounds. I'm about to use them to line the walls of my band practice room/recording studio, not because they're the best option, but they're quite affordable and work well to deaden sounds coming from the room. I'm going for a configuration like this: NOTE: This image is from Audimute's website, and it's an image of a setup from one of their customers - this is not my place, just the inspiration for my plans. I'll also be doing much other work on the two walls of the room that aren't against the poured concrete foundation, because I can get to the other side of them without removing existing drywall. They'll get 703 fibreglass batts between the studs, a layer of drywall, Audimute Peacemaker MLV-type rubber sheeting, then another layer of drywall. The ceiling treatment is still yet to be determined. I'm not going out of my way to sing the praises of the Audimute blankets, as I haven't used them in my studio yet, but I've seen them in use at my associate's place, and we've used them on the set of several video shoots and they do what they say they're supposed to do - and much better than moving blankets and other competing products out there. They are definitely NOT snake oil. One of the main guys in the company is a drummer and he has a similar setup for his drum room at home. Check out their website, they sell many different sound proofing and absorption products - the blankets are just some of the "budget" products they sell. I will report back as to their effectiveness, after I've put them up. (I'll definitely be doing a sound test before and after).