VO GUY / PIPE DREAM?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 2:58 am
Hi and may I say,
what a treasure trove of valuable acoustical tips and
meaningful input! Thank you for providing such a venue!
I have a perplexing dilemma that may or may not have an acoustical solution
or maybe so at least as a partial solution. Open to any and all thoughts that
would be greatly appreciated!
SCENARIO:
I do all sorts of media work and a lot of same includes recording my voice for
broadcast ads or online videos etc. Because 95% of these offerings are produced
with background music any nominal noise demons present are well camouflaged.
(I also avoid doing same when the army of lawn men start mowing and blowing except
for in-between times on that particular day.)
In addition to the music-in-the-ad "blankets" I use either a dynamic or very low, self-noise condenser mic.
MY PIPE DREAM is to quiet my actual little recording area (see attached) further to be able
to record voice-only work WITHOUT having to fix little noises in post. I will say that I don't
like the boxy/hollow sound of little voice booths on the market.
- 2nd floor bedroom of townhouse that was built with poured concrete walls. Room is 8' high.
- (2) specific noise areas of concern: Sliding glass door to balcony and AC vent over entry door
- The sliders are old and well built with 2 pains of glass in them and do a pretty good job
blocking outside noise except for say those mowers and blowers. They're muted some.
I'm not near a busy road either.
- I use half of a 2' deep, length-of-wall-closet as my work area that can be entirely closed off at night with
the sliding closet doors. The wall inside this area are covered with Sonex Wedge type panels.
There's a butcher block type bench and the computer is beneath on a carpet
covered bench with the comp-fan facing into the Sonex covered back wall. I can't hear the fan noise,
even with the condenser open, but could also hang something in front as well if need be.
IDEAS to block exterior sound further...
- One idea I had was making folding divider of sorts where each panel/partition
was of mass and absorbing-material inside framed panels connected via continuous hinges. "piano hinge"
When not needed, I could fold together like a divider and push out of the way. I was thinking like 7 feet high.
- The other idea was build 2 or 3 panels to insert in the area between the slider doors and the verticals.
The idea being to try to cover the entire slider area with 2-3 panels of mass. I have a gap there of just
over 2.5 inches. The would stand about 78 inches high and maybe rest top side against the track of the sliders.
Sitting side by side with the one being able to lifted out if I'd have open the door for any reason.
SEE THE ROUGH LAYOUT and I'll fill in the blanks thereafter not knowing what else
someone will need to know to at least proffer an idea or simply say, fughidaboudit.
I'm thinking this is probably a pipe dream but figured I'd float it in case there is some type of possibility.
ALSO...if I were to be able to do VOICE ONLY work, I'd also buy a Sennheiser 416 shot gun mic.
This is another very "forgiving" condenser mic when used for VO since it SUPER-cardioid.
THE ULTIMATE GOAL would be to reduce as much outside noise as possible
and totally eliminate any AC Vent AIR NOISE. The room right now is amazingly pretty quiet
with a hint of "live-ness."
I thank you for ANY thoughts whatsoever!
what a treasure trove of valuable acoustical tips and
meaningful input! Thank you for providing such a venue!
I have a perplexing dilemma that may or may not have an acoustical solution
or maybe so at least as a partial solution. Open to any and all thoughts that
would be greatly appreciated!
SCENARIO:
I do all sorts of media work and a lot of same includes recording my voice for
broadcast ads or online videos etc. Because 95% of these offerings are produced
with background music any nominal noise demons present are well camouflaged.
(I also avoid doing same when the army of lawn men start mowing and blowing except
for in-between times on that particular day.)
In addition to the music-in-the-ad "blankets" I use either a dynamic or very low, self-noise condenser mic.
MY PIPE DREAM is to quiet my actual little recording area (see attached) further to be able
to record voice-only work WITHOUT having to fix little noises in post. I will say that I don't
like the boxy/hollow sound of little voice booths on the market.
- 2nd floor bedroom of townhouse that was built with poured concrete walls. Room is 8' high.
- (2) specific noise areas of concern: Sliding glass door to balcony and AC vent over entry door
- The sliders are old and well built with 2 pains of glass in them and do a pretty good job
blocking outside noise except for say those mowers and blowers. They're muted some.
I'm not near a busy road either.
- I use half of a 2' deep, length-of-wall-closet as my work area that can be entirely closed off at night with
the sliding closet doors. The wall inside this area are covered with Sonex Wedge type panels.
There's a butcher block type bench and the computer is beneath on a carpet
covered bench with the comp-fan facing into the Sonex covered back wall. I can't hear the fan noise,
even with the condenser open, but could also hang something in front as well if need be.
IDEAS to block exterior sound further...
- One idea I had was making folding divider of sorts where each panel/partition
was of mass and absorbing-material inside framed panels connected via continuous hinges. "piano hinge"
When not needed, I could fold together like a divider and push out of the way. I was thinking like 7 feet high.
- The other idea was build 2 or 3 panels to insert in the area between the slider doors and the verticals.
The idea being to try to cover the entire slider area with 2-3 panels of mass. I have a gap there of just
over 2.5 inches. The would stand about 78 inches high and maybe rest top side against the track of the sliders.
Sitting side by side with the one being able to lifted out if I'd have open the door for any reason.
SEE THE ROUGH LAYOUT and I'll fill in the blanks thereafter not knowing what else
someone will need to know to at least proffer an idea or simply say, fughidaboudit.
I'm thinking this is probably a pipe dream but figured I'd float it in case there is some type of possibility.
ALSO...if I were to be able to do VOICE ONLY work, I'd also buy a Sennheiser 416 shot gun mic.
This is another very "forgiving" condenser mic when used for VO since it SUPER-cardioid.
THE ULTIMATE GOAL would be to reduce as much outside noise as possible
and totally eliminate any AC Vent AIR NOISE. The room right now is amazingly pretty quiet
with a hint of "live-ness."
I thank you for ANY thoughts whatsoever!
