Singing in an Apartment

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:38 pm

Puce wrote: ...as well as the tool for wallacing the grommets.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:15 pm

Bring that to the beach and see how long the feds take to smoke you out.

Borrow a camera. Hell, this needs iMax treatment!

Very inspiring, BTW. Can this be disassembled and reassembled relatively quickly?

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:33 pm

roymond wrote:Borrow a camera. Hell, this needs iMax treatment! Very inspiring, BTW. Can this be disassembled and reassembled relatively quickly?

I'll try to borrow a camera tonight, and I'll time myself when I set it up. My guess is a 3-minute set-up time.

Price Breakdown (CDN $):
6 pipes X $2 per = $12
8 joint X $1 per = $8
Hacksaw = $4
Grommets and Snaps = $4
Shower Curtain Rings = $Not sure (Had Spares)
2 Used Comforters = $10

Total: $40 CDN. Less if your thrifty / own any of the items already. It took about 3 hours to put it together, but I was watching MASH at the time, so you could probably do it faster undistracted.

It does a fantastic job of silencing my two PCs and my fridge. When you get in it feels very strange, because you're in a somewhat confined space but when you talk there is absolutely no echo at all, so it sounds like your speaking into an infinite void. It's probably the only place on earth that would unsettle both claustrophobes and agoraphobes concurrently. Xenophobes too, if you put all three in at once.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:29 am

Here are the bones:

The assembled base:

The skeletton:

Check out my Wicked Grommet:

Behold What God Hath Wrought!

Composite shot of the inside:

When I'll record I'll toss the comforter from my bed on the top so that I have a real soundproof box. It also makes a great sauna.

j$ · Post by j$ » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:32 am

That's a cheesy pattern on the curtains .... no wonder it was so cheap

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:34 am

j$ wrote:That's a cheesy pattern on the curtains .... no wonder it was so cheap

It was either the floral one or another that was stained with what looked suspiciously like fecal matter. I chose the poo-less one. Beggars can't be choosers, and shopping second hand makes me most definitely a beggar.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:46 am

roymond wrote:Can this be disassembled and reassembled relatively quickly?

It takes 5 minutes to set up (that includes time to snap photos) and about 1 to take apart. I wouldn't want to erect it in the middle of a SongSkirmish, but otherwise it's pretty quick.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:28 am

You could put it on wheels and use it when you need to buy embarrassing items of a personal nature from the chemist. Only your arms would need to stick out. Cool

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:41 am

That is a very clean recording space. Nice little "recording booth" though. It'll keep you mighty warm in the winter.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:26 pm

that's wicked man.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:50 pm

I'm totally making one of those!! I've been having serious ass street noise problems at the apartment I moved into a few months ago. I imagine that booth would be just as good at keeping noise out as in, right?

Smalltown Mike · Post by **Smalltown Mike** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:33 pm

Yea, I want one too.
Have you used it yet? It'll be good to hear the results.
When you break it down, what do you leave together? Does the whole frame stay together? This is fascinating; I've always wanted an isolation booth. I'd probably even use it for singing, too.

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:23 pm

Smalltown just wants a place where he can wear a pink skirt and post online pics in private.

That room is so clean! Man that vocal booth KILLS me. That thing is so sweet. I want to see a picture of you in there recording vocals.

I record in an apartment too. I have noisy streetcars going by out front and really noisy neighbors above me, and windows that were made in like 1930. It's great. I am definitely considering making one of those booths for myself. I like how the monitor stays in, but the tower stays out, to cut down on fan noise.

I've also heard that esp. for drums in a small place, one may consider putting a mic (stereo L/R mics) in another room to pick up ambience. Obviously not in the case of a vocal iso booth though...

I'd be interested to the same vocal track (same mic and singer, same mic placement):

1. recorded in iso
2. recorded in a tile bathroom

with no EQ, to hear the difference. John Lennon used to record vocals inside a cardboard box at one point, I heard...I'm gonna get a big one and line it with pillows for an iso booth...so cheap!

Plat · Post by **Plat** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:36 pm

I'd like a portable isolation booth like this

. (video)

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:53 pm

Plat wrote:I'd like a portable isolation booth like this . (video)

holy shit holy shit holy shit! After 8 months I finally watched that video. Genius caught on tape.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:07 am

Solved.

ujnhunter · Post by **ujnhunter** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:02 am

Do those pictures still exist somewhere? I just moved into an apartment, an need help with quieting my singing...

Singing in an Apartment

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