Creating Closet Vocal Booth: The Game Plan

Tired of going to other studios and paying expensive fees just to use their vocal booth to lay down songs? Well in this tutorial you will learn how to create your own vocal booth just from a closet inside of your home. It makes no difference if it's a walk in closet or just a small closet in an apartment. This guide will list the materials you need, show you how to assemble the booth and even give you extra add on's to personalize your booth how you want it.

The Plan

The plan is to decide what kind of vocal booth you want. Sure it's going to be a closet vocal booth but you need to know how to handle the space you're dealing with, whether it is big or small and also learn the process of where everything goes to make your vocal room as "dead" as you want. Many people say that a completely dead room will take away from how the vocals sound and this is absolutely true. You want your booth to be soundproof so no air gets in or out but you also have to take proper care to do it right or your vocals could come out sounding butchered. There will be no need for measurements and everything like that unless you're trying to make a professional vocal booth with top of the line capabilities and options. If that's what you're looking for the future tutorial on advance vocal booth building.

To see what kind of space you're working with you have to clean out the entire closet so it's basically empty. After cleaning it out evaluate it by talking in each one of the corners, talk LOUD. This will help you determine where the echo is coming from in the room and that's what you need to eliminate. You figure it like this; if you wanted echo effects you could always add them into your mix with a basic plug in on your audio program or even a analog effects generator. Just as a quick fact, many people set up their vocal booths in bathrooms as it gives them the naturally sounding reverb once the sound bounces off of the tiles. But since we're dealing with the closet, we want it just about dead but not completely. Although the size of the closet isn't really important, have common sense when building. Make sure you can turn around in the closet and you actually have enough room for comfort. It's nothing worst than being in a vocal booth that's either to small or too hot, believe they heat up extra fast.

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