I finally built mine. Sharing my homework in case anyone runs into the same issues I did. The 1.5' lengths (which I read as 1'6") should be 1'5". If you cut the 12 sections to 1.5' (1'6") they won't fit, but you only need to cut one inch off of each of the 12 sections to make it work. I think they intended the 2.5ft (2'6") sections to be 2'5" also. They'll still fit together, but at 2'6" your blankets will hang a couple of inches off the floor. As before, if you've cut them to 2.5ft (2'6") you only need to cut an additional inch off of each section. The blankets have loops, not just grommets, and they'll fit the 1 1/2" diameter PVC pipe like sliding curtains onto a rod. When possible, remove the section of pipe and slide it through the loops, rather than sliding the loops onto the pipe (as they did in the video). I ordered a fourth one so that they'll overlap more and have more of a ruffle; they're a bit taut with just three. I used eight 10ft lengths of 1 1/2" diameter PVC pipe, and I listed my cuts below. I didn't have a whole lot of waste, but I'm sure there's a better combination. I don't remember what other lengths they come in, but with something like five 10ft lengths and four 6ft lengths, you'd have nothing leftover. 1st: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections 2nd: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections 3rd: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections 4th: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections 5th: Four 2ft 5in sections 6th: One 3ft section, four 1ft 5in sections 7th: One 3ft section, four 1ft 5in sections 8th: Four 1ft 5in sections. If you're a little confused by the differing names of all of the fittings like I was, don't worry about that. Just go by visual appearance and purpose. Make sure you get 1 1/2" diameter. Some of them look tapered, but that's just to prevent snagging; your 1 1/2" pipes will still fit into them. I couldn't find them all locally and the ones I did find were more expensive anyway, so I ordered them all: You need *four* 4-way tee fittings (the link is for a Pack of 4): www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYPFI?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (one of these) These go vertically on the rear side. You need *eight* 3-way corner elbows (the link is for a Pack of 4): www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYPBM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (two of these) These are the corners, top and bottom. You need *eight* side tee (the link is for a Pack of 4): www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYGXO?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (two of these) Four of these go vertically on the front side; the other four go between the corners at the very top, connected to the cross. You need *one* 4-way cross pipe fitting (the link is for a single unit): www.amazon.com/dp/B018HF6IYQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (one of these) This goes in the very center of the top. You may go over budget on this project, especially with 2022 prices (and if you get a fourth blanket). I ended up close to $300 but it's still very cost-effective.
Thanks so much for spelling out all these details. I'm thinking of making mine a bit larger than the size in the video. I'll be using the booth with a big mic with a shock mount, mounted on a tripod mic stand. Does it seem like 3 feet by 3 feet is enough room to include a mic on a tripod stand, along with a pop filter? I'm also 6'2" tall and I'm wondering if 3" between me and the top of the booth is enough headroom. Do you have any opinions about that? Thanks again
Hey thanks for all the extra information you added to this I found your input very helpful. So I'm just wondering was there a specific kind of pvc pipe that's better than others ? I only ask because the prices are varying at every store I check.
Finally built one of these for my own! However, i did a few minor tweeks to really give it that more "professional" touch and look. First off, i put some cardboard walls on the inside and lined every wall with acoustic foam squares, and also added a wall mounted fan in one of the corners. For inside lighting i ran an led strip around the top, and cut the surrounding foam to fit. The result is a MASSIVE noise reduction from inside to out, and inside, virtually dead. The sound of a dead clap is quite interesting. All of this and still saved over $200 building it! (I also extended out the side walls to make it a 4'x3' space for more room)
My only tweak I’m adding to your build is going slightly bigger (5x4x7) so I can create both a recording booth and a dj booth for live streaming with green screen fabric lining the inside so I can add my visuals in the background
A tip for tablet users: You can buy a tablet holder that with adjustable clamp to attach a tablet to the pipes. Gives you light and you can read the text from it easily, or control the DAW from vocal booth with suitable app.
Yep, i got a tablet for mine too, haha great for reading vocals and self tracking when it's not for clients. Also, plan to upgrade my led strip so that you can control the light mood from the tablet
Check this out: I also bought myself a $100 Gazebo / Pergola (200cm x 200cm) and placed it in my basement on a noise absorbing rug. I left the outside "walls" off and placed moving blankets on all five sides. Got myself a 10M led strip for the inside and some bass traps in the corners and foam on the inside off the blankets. Super easy set-up for recording with my D18 and singing at the same time straight into my iPhone using the Roland Go Pro mix. Call me cheap but I just love my little "tent" inside my basement. Nice and cozy. Love your channel man!!
That's AWESOME! At NAB 2019 I checked into 4 x 4 vocal booths and WOW! Cha-ching! This is especially cool for VO, narration, audiobooks, etc. No one cares what it looks like. GREAT video! 👍
It does a good job at the end of the day. Especially if you're doing something like an audio book or quick VO session where there's never an on camera portion of the person. ... Though... i wonder if we can convert this into a mobile sound baffle wall for film sets...?
First, I would like to shout a HUGE thank you for sharing this brilliant idea that I needed to see a lifetime ago LOL.......but really God knows exactly what I need and when. This is just what I need. I've gotten my blankets and saw, but that PVC is now 2-3X the price listed in this video!!! I have searched all over online, locally and second-hand, and the prices are all pretty much the same!!!! This is definitely less expensive than the Vocal booth to Go, but is no longer very budget-friendly. I'm ecstatic about building my booth because I have songs that need to be recorded like yesterday so I have no choice but to invest the necessary funds to complete the build, but I thought it would be a kind gesture to update everyone's expectations on what they should be prepared to spend on this alternative DIY booth. I will be sharing my experience when I begin building my also. Wishing everyone all the best.
I think this idea is great. I have a pretty isolated room already, but need slightly better absorption for some of my recordings. I think this is a great solution. And for those TH-camrs out there that want it to be a little more aesthetically, pleasing, you could always double down on the blankets, and have a second set on the INSIDE of the pipes too, so you don't have to see them. 💪
This turned out really well! The only thing I would probably do differently is thread the moving blankets on the INSIDE of the booth, thus removing any possibility of the PVC pipes affecting the sound.
Thanks for the tutorial! I went ahead and made this too. I'm currently waiting on the blankets to arrive. I will note, that if anyone else is planing to make their own vocal booth, don't forget to take the thickness of the PVC fittings into account. If you follow the measurements in the video, you will end up with something that is taller than 6.5 ft.
@I A M D Y N A S T I I built it, but if I could go back, I would actually just build sound panels and cover my walls with them. But if you're set on building this booth: I recommend double layering it, to make sure there are no reflections coming off the walls into the mic. Also! DO NOT buy the blankets from the link in the description. They arrive damaged and smell terrible. I instead got all the blankets and grommet kit I needed from a Harbor Freight store. You can find them at a hardware store. I got 9 blankets total, two per side, and one for the top. In the end it was about $250. You should buy a PVC cutter tool. Makes it easier.
We made a very similar portable booth 6 years ago for when we go out for school activities only we used aluminum square tubes and glued acoustic foam to the blanquets. Still works like a charm.
Just finished this design. Had to special order some pieces from Home Depot (the 4-out joints), but this was easy to do. I used 1" pipe to save some money and it's still plenty sturdy.
Thanks for this. I was fighting over whether or not to get the 1" pipe (since the price of PVC has gone through the roof). You saved me $40, so again much appreciated.
This is like an adult version of building a house/tent indoors, something kids love doing. Real nice idea and not much more than these pre built isolation booths which are a lit smaller and probably less effective.
I made one of these a few years back. I made the mistake of making it too small. Big enough for one person and mic. It's nickname is the casket. As bad as that sounds it ended up creating a really nice isolated sound. Paired with a SM7B it was very much worth the effort.
Designed and built one of these, trying two types of moving blankets. I didn't notice a huge difference in recording with or without it. Been using a master closet, filled with clothes instead... Just like engineers did in the past.... Closets, bathrooms, kitchens :) Works really well, but it means moving equipment to the closet but, found a moveable rack cabinet, which a laptop can sit on. Planning to modify & build it. Will probably sell the vox booth. If u build one, make sure you don't make it 8 ft tall if u have an 8 ft ceiling. Have enough room for a person, wearing headphones (adding height) and a mic stand and possibly a stand for lyrics on paper, a phone or tablet. If u don't have a ton of room, think outside the box (pun intended), like making it triangular so it's placed in a corner.
I love that you included a shopping list of parts...i cant afford it in one go but with a solid list i can pick up a couple parts from each of my paychecks over a coupls months. I will finally be able to start singing again with some kind of quality. Thank you for this video guys!
this is a great option to make a larger booth to fit your space. the online portable ones seem small and if you want a chair in there with a small table, the lower priced kits can't accommodate that.
This is very cool. My computer and desk, with my microphone, are in my laundry room. It's a small enough room, no reverb when I clap. Plus, I live in a condo where it's pretty quiet, very little outside noise...
"If I were to clap, *clap clearly reveals the roomsound* it's completely dead to the world." Haha you should've done that with a mic in the booth, now it barely made any difference for the reverb
And then the hoo hoo hoo hoo at the end you can clearly hear the reflections, if you can hear them outside the booth,, you can hear it from the inside and the mic will hear it too
@@blazingfire90034 What? I know it's not for sound proofing that's not what I said. If you're doing voice work the deader the better. If you're speaking inside the booth you don't want the mic to pick up room reflections. If a talent agent or whoever listens to your audition or demo and hears the "room", that's a strike. Don't you think reverb is something used artificially? Adding a reverb effect to guitar or vocals? "The booth is for reverb"?? Makes no sense. What you want to do for recording the voices is called "absorption". Homemade bass traps are the best way. If you make this booth and can still hear the room it's useless.
Very nice, I enjoyed watching the full video and the idea of not spending much and the fact it is also easy to move around. Thank you. Happy 2023 to all from the beautiful Algarve. Do you know? If not, welcome to know with us.
this is actually pretty cool. This, as a core idea, is great for future developing a DIY foldable vocal booth. I can see myself using this idea with like tent-bone structure (sticks that unpack to a structure) and make it rather portable. Good job, as always guys!
Great video! I know the purpose is not sound isolation, but will it reduce the volume enough to be used for vocal recording in apartments without disturbing the neighbours too much? I mean; how much will it reduce the noise for people outside the booth?
A very huge thank you to Andrew and Steve of Deity Microphones for this DIY Vocal Booth video. I have been searching a while for a affordable and portable vocal booth. Thank you so much for this video. I have gotten all of my supplies to build my own vocal booth and I am looking forward to doing more of the thing that I enjoy doing, “voice overs” 😊. Again I say thank you.
Just built this out, so a note if you're looking to build based on these specs: The pipe fittings add 2in, so you have to adjust for either the 1'-6" pipes to each be one inch shorter at 1'-5" or the 3'-0" pipes to be two inches longer at 3'-2" in order for the width of the sides to match up.
Yep, I had the same issue... they didn't account for the length of the connector in-between. I made mine larger... 5 feet instead of 3 feet, with 2.5 feet at the top instead of 1.5, but obviously the same problem. Easy enough to cut the short ones a little shorter, but it would've been better to know ahead of time.
Just what I've been looking for. Our garage was converted to become a music room, so there no closets to build a vocal booth for my recording project. This is a godsend. Thanks so much!
I built one like this myself, draped two layers of moving planets over it. It got really hot in there when singing and when I sang louder still a lot of low end reverb and echo bled through. I ended up buying an Isovox2 and it’s vastly superior to any home made vocal booth. It’s expensive but so is completely acoustically treating your room. Pound for pound the IsoVox2 is the best option out there. I wish it wasn’t so damn expensive though
we ended up doing some tweaking to get this design to where we wanted it, but also glad to hear you found success with the IsoVox. It's a very unique product.
For sound isolation, I record in the middle of the night. But I still need to solve the sound absorption problem because my room is super echoey. This seems like a great solution.
@@rome8180 get some acoustic blankets that can help get the job done it definitely helps to deaden that nasty reverb sound in the room this can definitely help from the sound of the room get you might here a little reverb but it a whole lot more better than nothing
Great video! This was exactly the kind of solution I was looking for. Quick question: How well does that setup keep loud noise IN? I live in an apartment building with thin walls/floors. If recording VO's (especially at night) require moderate yelling or shouting I want to make sure that my neighbors can still get good sleep, lol.
Not well at all, unfortunately! The moving blankets just don't have enough mass or absorption ability to really dampen the sound very much. This is more for controlling reverb and room echo.
You can add more blankets to this type of setup to get multiple layers for a *little* better control of your yelling, maybe even air-gap the blankets by an inch or two, but yeah...still not going to quite you down very much.
I’m a lyricist and a comic book writer and wanna branch out to make my own music. Thanks for the video this will really help me get into creating my own sound recording studio. Right now I’m a truck driver and small comic book writer
Little addition if you add some PVC Water Pipe Clamps Clips the ones that allow PVC pipes to be clip to the wall, you can screw or glue them into insolated foam which can be cut to the size of the squares spaces of the booth you then clip the foam onto the pipes this will fix sound isolation issue and easy to dismantle. You can add the foam all around but please note you will need ventlation some type of fan I use a slient usb fans I made using 4 200m fans which are silent I did this because they were at hand and was easy enough to add a usb and controller to them 2 for intake for good air and the other 2 for outtake the bad air.
I need to get me some of those blankets. I’ve had two last minute requests for recording audio at someone’s business and both times I was wishing I had the right gear on hand to do the job correctly.
Excellent! I've been designing a PVC based booth (my first) but this is the first execution I've found. I think it's great, but I'm going to scale it up a bit to accommodate me.
I’m gonna try this but with free Priority Mail boxes. Gonna build a fort out of the boxes cus they’re pretty solid and gonna put stuff in them to help with the sound and then put the blankets inside
Im crying! I'm so happy someone did it and that it's a specific group like deity! IVE BEEN LOOKING forever on youtube of DIY sound booths for VO. I hope t his becomes a series.
Just a question. Take your frame and blanket setup and add some 2 to 3 layer cheap blackout curtains to the inside. Not flat but waved vertically similar to if they were pulled aside partway on a window. They are designed to block out light and noise. I think the curtains and blanket setup would block most outside noise and flatten all frequencies. What's your take on this change?
This is great. I want to make one using sections of recycled denim as we get these with a food delivery and I thought I could repurpose them to use as temporary soundproofin.
Would gluing 2 inch high density foam to the inside of the moving blanket add to a more dampened space? Only asking because I have a good amount of them and am wondering if they will offer more dampening to the blankets? Thanks, getting ready to build this booth.
in 11/2024 this frame using furniture grade PVC in white in the upper midwest cost roughly $460. Black is $490. You can mix it up to save $ and use plumbing PVC straight pipe and plumbing flat cross section and furniture grade three-way elbows and four-way corners to bring that down to about $190. this is for a 5'w x 3.5'd x 6 5"h frame
Where are you buying those moving blankets? Harbor Freight has a better price on those, and they come in several different sizes. I've got several walls in my room covered with them, and they do a great job on killing those reflections.
The pipes being round, it will be fine either way. The sound will disperse unequally on the round pipe and then bury itself in the blanket. The key is ridding yourself of hard flat parallel surfaces where the standing waves and reflections can cause problems.
I built my vocal booth using this same method with pvc pipe and heavy sound blankets. The way I see it is if your going to hang the blankets you might as well hang them from the inside covering the pipes.
@@rjsrox07 nice, does this work? like idk if these blankets are as powerful as professional sound absorbing panels,bc this method is perfect and affordable,but id like to see the difference
You could also mount blankets to a corner of the wall( 2 sides settled) and just construct an L shaped wall to close up. Obviously this isn't portable, but takes up less room as the L shaped " wall" can be turned around to lie flat against wall
Hi, great video. I have a question. I have build the pvc frame and bought these professional DIY blankets. My question is; is it still advisable in order to get good sounding vocals to use the SE professional shield inside the booth? My Shield is not the soft material but the hard material that probably absorb and reflect.The booth works well and get rid of the reflections coming from the walls and windows in my living room, however, isn't some reflection needed for a vocal to breath so the voice stays fresh and alive? Hope you can share your experience with these blankets and vocals especially opera voices. Thanks in advance
Great video. Moving blankets are rated in "pounds per dozen". * Light duty are 35 lbs/dz. * Medium duty are 60 lbs/dz. * Heavy duty are 90 lbs/dz. * Real sound blankets are probably heavier. Sound blankets quite often have multiple eyelets on each side. You can add these with a brass 3/8"-1/2" eyelet sets. No sewing, just a hammer, punch and die set. You might want a 2" x 2" nylon or canvas backing on each side under the eyelet. You can use black cotton cord to tie them up. The least expensive heavy duty black/white blankets I have found are Supreme Mover Moving Blankets, 4 blankets for $90. Here is the exact blanket description on amazon: Supreme Mover Moving Blankets | 72 inch x 80 inch Heavy Duty Black and White Moving Pads| 7.5 pounds each (90 pounds per dozen) | 4 Blankets BTW, you forgot to mention that your sound booth is portable. Just disassemble it.
Thanks for the video, perfect for my needs. Do you recommend a particular diameter PVC pipe? Not so much for strength, but making sure I get small enough to fit through the loops on the moving blanket. Also, assuming 2 blankets will do the trick (72"x78" each). Thanks!!
Great video. Where can you put the laptop that the mic and interface need to hook up to, though? And how do you keep it from overheating from the computer, or even from body heat? Thanks!
Thank you for the video and the parts list I built the PVC booth today and have to put grommets on my blankets tonight. I broke each pipe down by what sizes to cut. After that it was very easy.
Did you have trouble with the “ceiling” / top bars? Every time I try to put them on the rest of the booth falls apart. And they don’t seem to be long enough at 1.5 ft. Any tips?
I found this channel today, and I'm looking to make a similar booth or sound treat otherwise. I can't find the same blankets with the link in any of your videos mentioning it, so I was curious if you had other recommendations or any similar products. Please let me know!
@@sannaanna9992 Yes! One thing to be aware of are the pipe lengths depicted at 3:48 ... these should probably be with the connectors in mind (which add several inches), not the pipe length alone. I originally cut the pipes at those lengths, but it came out too tall (the blankets hung and didn't touch the ground), so had to trim further accordingly. I love my booth! When set up, it's a very consistent environment that I find stress-free and flexible for my music project... I did some singing that were days, even weeks apart, on the same song (making lyrical or performance revisions), and it still sounds like it was all done over the same take! :)
I finally built mine. Sharing my homework in case anyone runs into the same issues I did.
The 1.5' lengths (which I read as 1'6") should be 1'5". If you cut the 12 sections to 1.5' (1'6") they won't fit, but you only need to cut one inch off of each of the 12 sections to make it work.
I think they intended the 2.5ft (2'6") sections to be 2'5" also. They'll still fit together, but at 2'6" your blankets will hang a couple of inches off the floor. As before, if you've cut them to 2.5ft (2'6") you only need to cut an additional inch off of each section.
The blankets have loops, not just grommets, and they'll fit the 1 1/2" diameter PVC pipe like sliding curtains onto a rod. When possible, remove the section of pipe and slide it through the loops, rather than sliding the loops onto the pipe (as they did in the video). I ordered a fourth one so that they'll overlap more and have more of a ruffle; they're a bit taut with just three.
I used eight 10ft lengths of 1 1/2" diameter PVC pipe, and I listed my cuts below. I didn't have a whole lot of waste, but I'm sure there's a better combination. I don't remember what other lengths they come in, but with something like five 10ft lengths and four 6ft lengths, you'd have nothing leftover.
1st: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections
2nd: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections
3rd: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections
4th: Two 3ft sections, two 2ft sections
5th: Four 2ft 5in sections
6th: One 3ft section, four 1ft 5in sections
7th: One 3ft section, four 1ft 5in sections
8th: Four 1ft 5in sections.
If you're a little confused by the differing names of all of the fittings like I was, don't worry about that. Just go by visual appearance and purpose. Make sure you get 1 1/2" diameter. Some of them look tapered, but that's just to prevent snagging; your 1 1/2" pipes will still fit into them. I couldn't find them all locally and the ones I did find were more expensive anyway, so I ordered them all:
You need *four* 4-way tee fittings (the link is for a Pack of 4):
www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYPFI?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (one of these)
These go vertically on the rear side.
You need *eight* 3-way corner elbows (the link is for a Pack of 4):
www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYPBM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (two of these)
These are the corners, top and bottom.
You need *eight* side tee (the link is for a Pack of 4):
www.amazon.com/dp/B00MNIYGXO?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (two of these)
Four of these go vertically on the front side; the other four go between the corners at the very top, connected to the cross.
You need *one* 4-way cross pipe fitting (the link is for a single unit):
www.amazon.com/dp/B018HF6IYQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (one of these)
This goes in the very center of the top.
You may go over budget on this project, especially with 2022 prices (and if you get a fourth blanket). I ended up close to $300 but it's still very cost-effective.
holy cow, well done! hope your build is working for you :)
Thanks so much for spelling out all these details. I'm thinking of making mine a bit larger than the size in the video. I'll be using the booth with a big mic with a shock mount, mounted on a tripod mic stand. Does it seem like 3 feet by 3 feet is enough room to include a mic on a tripod stand, along with a pop filter? I'm also 6'2" tall and I'm wondering if 3" between me and the top of the booth is enough headroom. Do you have any opinions about that? Thanks again
Hey thanks for all the extra information you added to this I found your input very helpful. So I'm just wondering was there a specific kind of pvc pipe that's better than others ? I only ask because the prices are varying at every store I check.
How many blankets should we buy? :)
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Finally built one of these for my own!
However, i did a few minor tweeks to really give it that more "professional" touch and look.
First off, i put some cardboard walls on the inside and lined every wall with acoustic foam squares, and also added a wall mounted fan in one of the corners. For inside lighting i ran an led strip around the top, and cut the surrounding foam to fit.
The result is a MASSIVE noise reduction from inside to out, and inside, virtually dead. The sound of a dead clap is quite interesting.
All of this and still saved over $200 building it!
(I also extended out the side walls to make it a 4'x3' space for more room)
Hi ! How that cost you in total ?
My only tweak I’m adding to your build is going slightly bigger (5x4x7) so I can create both a recording booth and a dj booth for live streaming with green screen fabric lining the inside so I can add my visuals in the background
genius
dude you definitely gotta do a video or show a picture, that sounds really interesting
A tip for tablet users: You can buy a tablet holder that with adjustable clamp to attach a tablet to the pipes. Gives you light and you can read the text from it easily, or control the DAW from vocal booth with suitable app.
Yep, i got a tablet for mine too, haha great for reading vocals and self tracking when it's not for clients. Also, plan to upgrade my led strip so that you can control the light mood from the tablet
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Thank god I found this. Cheap and easy set up. Thank you.
Check this out: I also bought myself a $100 Gazebo / Pergola (200cm x 200cm) and placed it in my basement on a noise absorbing rug. I left the outside "walls" off and placed moving blankets on all five sides. Got myself a 10M led strip for the inside and some bass traps in the corners and foam on the inside off the blankets. Super easy set-up for recording with my D18 and singing at the same time straight into my iPhone using the Roland Go Pro mix. Call me cheap but I just love my little "tent" inside my basement. Nice and cozy. Love your channel man!!
Nice! Always cool to hear different people's approach to this
That's AWESOME! At NAB 2019 I checked into 4 x 4 vocal booths and WOW! Cha-ching! This is especially cool for VO, narration, audiobooks, etc. No one cares what it looks like. GREAT video! 👍
It does a good job at the end of the day. Especially if you're doing something like an audio book or quick VO session where there's never an on camera portion of the person. ... Though... i wonder if we can convert this into a mobile sound baffle wall for film sets...?
@@DeityMicrophones I absolutely think that could be done. A bag to fit the PVC tubes and some blankets. BAM! A great idea!!! 👍
First, I would like to shout a HUGE thank you for sharing this brilliant idea that I needed to see a lifetime ago LOL.......but really God knows exactly what I need and when. This is just what I need. I've gotten my blankets and saw, but that PVC is now 2-3X the price listed in this video!!! I have searched all over online, locally and second-hand, and the prices are all pretty much the same!!!! This is definitely less expensive than the Vocal booth to Go, but is no longer very budget-friendly. I'm ecstatic about building my booth because I have songs that need to be recorded like yesterday so I have no choice but to invest the necessary funds to complete the build, but I thought it would be a kind gesture to update everyone's expectations on what they should be prepared to spend on this alternative DIY booth. I will be sharing my experience when I begin building my also. Wishing everyone all the best.
I’m fortunate that I have a closet in my room that I just hang up blankets in.
But then you still have hard walls hidden less than an inch on the other side of the blanket.
@@webvudu6998 The closet is big enough that there is several inches between the walls and blankets.
I think this idea is great. I have a pretty isolated room already, but need slightly better absorption for some of my recordings. I think this is a great solution. And for those TH-camrs out there that want it to be a little more aesthetically, pleasing, you could always double down on the blankets, and have a second set on the INSIDE of the pipes too, so you don't have to see them. 💪
Or spray paint the pipes black so it so a bit more seemless
This turned out really well! The only thing I would probably do differently is thread the moving blankets on the INSIDE of the booth, thus removing any possibility of the PVC pipes affecting the sound.
That and velcro loops so you don't have to thread the pipe through the loops.
Exactly what I was thinking. Those PVC pipes are pretty live.
Thanks for the tutorial! I went ahead and made this too. I'm currently waiting on the blankets to arrive. I will note, that if anyone else is planing to make their own vocal booth, don't forget to take the thickness of the PVC fittings into account. If you follow the measurements in the video, you will end up with something that is taller than 6.5 ft.
@I A M D Y N A S T I I built it, but if I could go back, I would actually just build sound panels and cover my walls with them. But if you're set on building this booth: I recommend double layering it, to make sure there are no reflections coming off the walls into the mic. Also! DO NOT buy the blankets from the link in the description. They arrive damaged and smell terrible. I instead got all the blankets and grommet kit I needed from a Harbor Freight store. You can find them at a hardware store. I got 9 blankets total, two per side, and one for the top. In the end it was about $250. You should buy a PVC cutter tool. Makes it easier.
We made a very similar portable booth 6 years ago for when we go out for school activities only we used aluminum square tubes and glued acoustic foam to the blanquets. Still works like a charm.
Just finished this design. Had to special order some pieces from Home Depot (the 4-out joints), but this was easy to do. I used 1" pipe to save some money and it's still plenty sturdy.
Hi where did you get the joints??
Thanks for this. I was fighting over whether or not to get the 1" pipe (since the price of PVC has gone through the roof). You saved me $40, so again much appreciated.
This is like an adult version of building a house/tent indoors, something kids love doing.
Real nice idea and not much more than these pre built isolation booths which are a lit smaller and probably less effective.
I used a grow tent, worked really well with foam glued to the inside and was cheap.
What Gary said....👍
1 minute into the video I went to Amazon and typed “portable dressing room”. I think those options are cheaper and less time consuming lol
Same I saw the dressing room first you’ll only need blankets n exercise form
This is a great idea😂
brilliant 😂 probably gonna do this, but liked the video just to be nice
Thank you ❤
that is exactly what I was looking for. This is genius!
I made one of these a few years back. I made the mistake of making it too small. Big enough for one person and mic. It's nickname is the casket. As bad as that sounds it ended up creating a really nice isolated sound. Paired with a SM7B it was very much worth the effort.
Nice idea, for anyone wanting to put one of these together I’d suggest putting the blankets inside of the tubes 🍻
Designed and built one of these, trying two types of moving blankets. I didn't notice a huge difference in recording with or without it. Been using a master closet, filled with clothes instead... Just like engineers did in the past.... Closets, bathrooms, kitchens :) Works really well, but it means moving equipment to the closet but, found a moveable rack cabinet, which a laptop can sit on. Planning to modify & build it. Will probably sell the vox booth.
If u build one, make sure you don't make it 8 ft tall if u have an 8 ft ceiling. Have enough room for a person, wearing headphones (adding height) and a mic stand and possibly a stand for lyrics on paper, a phone or tablet.
If u don't have a ton of room, think outside the box (pun intended), like making it triangular so it's placed in a corner.
I love that you included a shopping list of parts...i cant afford it in one go but with a solid list i can pick up a couple parts from each of my paychecks over a coupls months. I will finally be able to start singing again with some kind of quality. Thank you for this video guys!
Ditto
Thank you so much for sharing this. You're helping the VO community so much. You guys are amazing.
4 days ago? I literally just decided to make a booth. Had I figured out my closet wasn't gonna work a week ago, I woulda missed this gem.
this is a great option to make a larger booth to fit your space. the online portable ones seem small and if you want a chair in there with a small table, the lower priced kits can't accommodate that.
Can't wait to hear that VO!
They should hire you for the VO.
😂😂
That's sweet! I just built a sound booth in the closet but I'm gonna make one of those as a shiter when we go camping.
Brilliant. Gotta stay creative out there.
This is very cool. My computer and desk, with my microphone, are in my laundry room. It's a small enough room, no reverb when I clap. Plus, I live in a condo where it's pretty quiet, very little outside noise...
"If I were to clap, *clap clearly reveals the roomsound* it's completely dead to the world." Haha you should've done that with a mic in the booth, now it barely made any difference for the reverb
the door was open
so the sound entered the room
Shut up.
And then the hoo hoo hoo hoo at the end you can clearly hear the reflections, if you can hear them outside the booth,, you can hear it from the inside and the mic will hear it too
@@theshizon that's not how reverb works. The booth is for reverb not sound proofing.
@@blazingfire90034 What? I know it's not for sound proofing that's not what I said. If you're doing voice work the deader the better. If you're speaking inside the booth you don't want the mic to pick up room reflections. If a talent agent or whoever listens to your audition or demo and hears the "room", that's a strike. Don't you think reverb is something used artificially? Adding a reverb effect to guitar or vocals? "The booth is for reverb"?? Makes no sense. What you want to do for recording the voices is called "absorption". Homemade bass traps are the best way. If you make this booth and can still hear the room it's useless.
Very nice, I enjoyed watching the full video and the idea of not spending much and the fact it is also easy to move around. Thank you. Happy 2023 to all from the beautiful Algarve. Do you know? If not, welcome to know with us.
this is actually pretty cool. This, as a core idea, is great for future developing a DIY foldable vocal booth. I can see myself using this idea with like tent-bone structure (sticks that unpack to a structure) and make it rather portable.
Good job, as always guys!
Do it!! And then share the build with us.
Great video! I know the purpose is not sound isolation, but will it reduce the volume enough to be used for vocal recording in apartments without disturbing the neighbours too much? I mean; how much will it reduce the noise for people outside the booth?
Yes, it'll
A very huge thank you to Andrew and Steve of Deity Microphones for this DIY Vocal Booth video. I have been searching a while for a affordable and portable vocal booth. Thank you so much for this video. I have gotten all of my supplies to build my own vocal booth and I am looking forward to doing more of the thing that I enjoy doing, “voice overs” 😊. Again I say thank you.
Just built this out, so a note if you're looking to build based on these specs: The pipe fittings add 2in, so you have to adjust for either the 1'-6" pipes to each be one inch shorter at 1'-5" or the 3'-0" pipes to be two inches longer at 3'-2" in order for the width of the sides to match up.
Yep, I had the same issue... they didn't account for the length of the connector in-between. I made mine larger... 5 feet instead of 3 feet, with 2.5 feet at the top instead of 1.5, but obviously the same problem. Easy enough to cut the short ones a little shorter, but it would've been better to know ahead of time.
Luckily PVC is very easy to cut with just a hand saw!
Just what I've been looking for. Our garage was converted to become a music room, so there no closets to build a vocal booth for my recording project. This is a godsend. Thanks so much!
Great Creation. For better sound absorption, I'd probably put the blankets on the inside...
This is nerdy af, don't know how this got in my feed, but I will sub to this type of shit. Love DIY.
How
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to hang the padding INSIDE of the frame, and eliminating the pvc ?
Yep. I was already thinking that’s how I’m gonna do it ☑️
Lmk how it goes!
I would also add extra deadening by wrapping owens corning foam in burlap and placing them up against the walls.
This is the best video on TH-cam.
Excellent! I think I may have missed the O.D. of the PVC, though. I wouldn't want to get something too big to fit through the loops on the blankets...
Thanks for the vid, learned a lot from it. Since I already have the base I'll try to use the blanket. Surprised how inexpensive they are!
I built one like this myself, draped two layers of moving planets over it. It got really hot in there when singing and when I sang louder still a lot of low end reverb and echo bled through. I ended up buying an Isovox2 and it’s vastly superior to any home made vocal booth. It’s expensive but so is completely acoustically treating your room. Pound for pound the IsoVox2 is the best option out there. I wish it wasn’t so damn expensive though
we ended up doing some tweaking to get this design to where we wanted it, but also glad to hear you found success with the IsoVox. It's a very unique product.
This is really dope! Only thing I would add is some type of mattress Pad to cover the inside of the booth!
For sound isolation, I record in the middle of the night. But I still need to solve the sound absorption problem because my room is super echoey. This seems like a great solution.
@gid dude, I have literally all the pillows, blankets and clothes in my entire house in my vocal room. I even dragged in a spare mattress.
@@rome8180 get some acoustic blankets that can help get the job done it definitely helps to deaden that nasty reverb sound in the room this can definitely help from the sound of the room get you might here a little reverb but it a whole lot more better than nothing
Great video! This was exactly the kind of solution I was looking for. Quick question: How well does that setup keep loud noise IN? I live in an apartment building with thin walls/floors. If recording VO's (especially at night) require moderate yelling or shouting I want to make sure that my neighbors can still get good sleep, lol.
Not well at all, unfortunately! The moving blankets just don't have enough mass or absorption ability to really dampen the sound very much. This is more for controlling reverb and room echo.
You can add more blankets to this type of setup to get multiple layers for a *little* better control of your yelling, maybe even air-gap the blankets by an inch or two, but yeah...still not going to quite you down very much.
I bought all the stuff, put it together, tested it out, wondered why it didn’t block sound from escaping and just saw this comment. Fuck.
@ I’ve never heard of that. I will definitely look it up!
Awesome!! Do you think I could glue some sound proof foam panels to the pvc? 🤔
This is such and easy and great idea and it's not 4K like a whisper room which is way out of many musician's price range ! Thanks guys !!!
You might have just single handly saved my music career
Do you guys have a full spec list including # of pipes, pipe diameters and lengths etc? I’d like to build this exact booth. Thanks
2:26 is a specs list, 3:46 has dimensions
Thanks. Which blankets did you use? Think link you provided had many. Why are they better tan Harbor freight types?
I’m a lyricist and a comic book writer and wanna branch out to make my own music. Thanks for the video this will really help me get into creating my own sound recording studio. Right now I’m a truck driver and small comic book writer
Nice! Good luck, it may be a bumpy road but stick with it. www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/ is a great resource.
I was thinking of building it with cardboards but you gave me a better idea to use PVC pipes...thanks a lot.
Little addition if you add some PVC Water Pipe Clamps Clips the ones that allow PVC pipes to be clip to the wall, you can screw or glue them into insolated foam which can be cut to the size of the squares spaces of the booth you then clip the foam onto the pipes this will fix sound isolation issue and easy to dismantle. You can add the foam all around but please note you will need ventlation some type of fan I use a slient usb fans I made using 4 200m fans which are silent I did this because they were at hand and was easy enough to add a usb and controller to them 2 for intake for good air and the other 2 for outtake the bad air.
Would it be worth lining the inside with those blankets as well? Would that help with the sound absorption from inside and out?
I need to get me some of those blankets. I’ve had two last minute requests for recording audio at someone’s business and both times I was wishing I had the right gear on hand to do the job correctly.
These worked great!
Excellent! I've been designing a PVC based booth (my first) but this is the first execution I've found. I think it's great, but I'm going to scale it up a bit to accommodate me.
Literally how I visioned mine I couldn’t figure out where or how to get the poles though. Thank you
Thank you! I've been searching high and low for exactly this information.
I’m gonna try this but with free Priority Mail boxes. Gonna build a fort out of the boxes cus they’re pretty solid and gonna put stuff in them to help with the sound and then put the blankets inside
Im crying! I'm so happy someone did it and that it's a specific group like deity! IVE BEEN LOOKING forever on youtube of DIY sound booths for VO. I hope t his becomes a series.
Just a question. Take your frame and blanket setup and add some 2 to 3 layer cheap blackout curtains to the inside. Not flat but waved vertically similar to if they were pulled aside partway on a window. They are designed to block out light and noise. I think the curtains and blanket setup would block most outside noise and flatten all frequencies. What's your take on this change?
Adding more sound absorbing material will always help
I want to construct this, anyone of you say the cost for 6x4x6 feets and say place to buy theses quality products tq
This is great. I want to make one using sections of recycled denim as we get these with a food delivery and I thought I could repurpose them to use as temporary soundproofin.
Would gluing 2 inch high density foam to the inside of the moving blanket add to a more dampened space? Only asking because I have a good amount of them and am wondering if they will offer more dampening to the blankets? Thanks, getting ready to build this booth.
in 11/2024 this frame using furniture grade PVC in white in the upper midwest cost roughly $460. Black is $490.
You can mix it up to save $ and use plumbing PVC straight pipe and plumbing flat cross section and furniture grade three-way elbows and four-way corners to bring that down to about $190.
this is for a 5'w x 3.5'd x 6 5"h frame
Would you want to hang the blankets inside the frame so the PVC doesn't create any weird noise or is that just overkill?
Makes for an awesome fort too!
Great tips! I need to share this with my authors who want to self-narrate their books. Well done!
Hey guys thank you for the advice your tip I've been struggling with my voice sound echo and I'm going to do this thank you
Where are you buying those moving blankets? Harbor Freight has a better price on those, and they come in several different sizes. I've got several walls in my room covered with them, and they do a great job on killing those reflections.
except you should reverse the blankets to hang from the inside so the pipes are exposed on the outside.
Clearly didn't think of that but yes, that would have been better...
The pipes being round, it will be fine either way. The sound will disperse unequally on the round pipe and then bury itself in the blanket. The key is ridding yourself of hard flat parallel surfaces where the standing waves and reflections can cause problems.
What about putting foam pipe insulation, or pool noodles on pipes?
I built my vocal booth using this same method with pvc pipe and heavy sound blankets. The way I see it is if your going to hang the blankets you might as well hang them from the inside covering the pipes.
@@rjsrox07 nice, does this work? like idk if these blankets are as powerful as professional sound absorbing panels,bc this method is perfect and affordable,but id like to see the difference
You could also mount blankets to a corner of the wall( 2 sides settled) and just construct an L shaped wall to close up. Obviously this isn't portable, but takes up less room as the L shaped " wall" can be turned around to lie flat against wall
Will moving blankets from Home Depot properly absorb sound or do I need specially made ones
Finally! My 9 years of plumbing experience are about to pay off, building an advanced blanket fort.
Great design! Definitely going to build me one 🤙
Hi, great video. I have a question. I have build the pvc frame and bought these professional DIY blankets. My question is; is it still advisable in order to get good sounding vocals to use the SE professional shield inside the booth? My Shield is not the soft material but the hard material that probably absorb and reflect.The booth works well and get rid of the reflections coming from the walls and windows in my living room, however, isn't some reflection needed for a vocal to breath so the voice stays fresh and alive? Hope you can share your experience with these blankets and vocals especially opera voices. Thanks in advance
Dude that ending was 🔥
Thank you!
Well Explained...Superb Video,Keep it Up
Cool. I can see myself building this.
Nice place to hang some winter coats when you are not using it (not joking).
I appreciate this video!
Great video. Moving blankets are rated in "pounds per dozen".
* Light duty are 35 lbs/dz.
* Medium duty are 60 lbs/dz.
* Heavy duty are 90 lbs/dz.
* Real sound blankets are probably heavier.
Sound blankets quite often have multiple eyelets on each side. You can add these with a brass 3/8"-1/2" eyelet sets. No sewing, just a hammer, punch and die set. You might want a 2" x 2" nylon or canvas backing on each side under the eyelet. You can use black cotton cord to tie them up.
The least expensive heavy duty black/white blankets I have found are Supreme Mover Moving Blankets, 4 blankets for $90. Here is the exact blanket description on amazon:
Supreme Mover Moving Blankets | 72 inch x 80 inch Heavy Duty Black and White Moving Pads| 7.5 pounds each (90 pounds per dozen) | 4 Blankets
BTW, you forgot to mention that your sound booth is portable. Just disassemble it.
We didn't forget to call it portable, it's in the title. 😅
Do heavier duty blankets work better than lighter ones? In terms of sound absorption.
@@rfzw Mass generally helps out sound isolation a little more than absorption but on this scale it's kind of splitting hairs.
Oops, Captain Obvious was not on the ball today.
Hey Guys great stuff. Not sure if I missed something but what diameter is the PVC pipes are you using? Thanks. BB
Thanks for the video.
Can this work for not disturbing neighbors in the apartment when doing singing practices?..
Thanks for the video, perfect for my needs. Do you recommend a particular diameter PVC pipe? Not so much for strength, but making sure I get small enough to fit through the loops on the moving blanket. Also, assuming 2 blankets will do the trick (72"x78" each). Thanks!!
Great video. Where can you put the laptop that the mic and interface need to hook up to, though? And how do you keep it from overheating from the computer, or even from body heat? Thanks!
Thank you for the video and the parts list I built the PVC booth today and have to put grommets on my blankets tonight. I broke each pipe down by what sizes to cut. After that it was very easy.
Did you have trouble with the “ceiling” / top bars? Every time I try to put them on the rest of the booth falls apart. And they don’t seem to be long enough at 1.5 ft. Any tips?
I do have a question, can I build the booth around my desk? If I just add more PVC?
Would it be better to hang the blankets on the inside to isolate from the hard plastic of the pipe?
Awesome. Thanks for the idea
I'm truly amazed at the number of adults this guy has convinced to build blanket forts in their living rooms.
Just what I was looking for :D Thank you this is perfect !
Brilliant
Those pipes will resonate and ring! You will hear in your recordings... I would fill all pipes with liquid foam...
Hang the blankets on the inside so they cover the piping.
Bear in mind that acoustic blankets with the grommets do cost quite a lot more than standard moving blankets.
would love to get a link to the video where you previously used t stands. i tried searching your videos but couldn't find it.
The clap did have reverb to it. No doubt because one side of the booth was open.
Great idea. Costs could be cut maybe by going to goodwill and getting blankets or quilts.
I found this channel today, and I'm looking to make a similar booth or sound treat otherwise. I can't find the same blankets with the link in any of your videos mentioning it, so I was curious if you had other recommendations or any similar products. Please let me know!
Superb! Thank you :D
Just bought the blankets! Gonna start getting the pipes this week, excited!
How many blankets are needed for the booth in the video ?
@@slimannaciri694 You'll need 4 blankets, 3 that wrap around and 1 for the roof.
@@JohnnyQuanSW Thanks :)
hey. did it work?
@@sannaanna9992 Yes! One thing to be aware of are the pipe lengths depicted at 3:48 ... these should probably be with the connectors in mind (which add several inches), not the pipe length alone. I originally cut the pipes at those lengths, but it came out too tall (the blankets hung and didn't touch the ground), so had to trim further accordingly.
I love my booth! When set up, it's a very consistent environment that I find stress-free and flexible for my music project... I did some singing that were days, even weeks apart, on the same song (making lyrical or performance revisions), and it still sounds like it was all done over the same take! :)
Daym , happy that I clicked ont this! 📺
Any specs information on the moving blanket? Or a website where to order them from?
Great vid! Thank you for the cool idea