Recording Booth Design
As a Music Tech. student living in a small apartment on the 7th floor, recording stuff in my living room at 3AM was a painful experience. So 2 years ago, I designed a vocal/instrument booth. Basically, I built a mini-recording-room in my living room. I needed a quick/rough design, because I knew acoustical-calculations and simulations change everything. So I used Google SketchUp to design the room, and ODEON to calculate the inner acoustics of the mini-recording-booth. Walls are the most critical part of the design, filled with 4cm rock-wool, 4cm glass-wool and 2cm air between them.
Resonance, is the biggest problem with vocal booths in general. To avoid extreme-resonance I tried my best to avoid using parallel surfaces, and tried to create a sweet-spot for my recording needs. Also, I needed this in my living room, so it had to be space efficient. My band’s bassist plays double bass, and I wanted him to be able to play his double-bass in this room. Also in the 3D design, there is a glass window, however after running acoustic simulations, I decided to remove that.
Here are some photos:
If you want to hear the results, I recorded all vocal, guitar and double bass parts of my band’s album “Lines We Drew” in this room. You can click here to listen to the album.