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DIY $23.00 Mini Sound Booth build in under an hour.
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2013
- I wanted to get better sound recording for voice overs at home. I decided to build my own home sound booth for $23.00 with parts from Canadian Tire and Walmart. (Links to these included below) I used the Blue Yeti USB Microphone for this video and loved the results. I no longer need to rent sound studio space which saves me time and money. My mini sound recording booth packs up and stores easily and makes my sound production portable.
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Just a note to those people saying this could be made "better'. Of course it could, anything can! That isn't the point. This does the job and is cheap. Would spending more money make significant and worthwhile improvements? Doubtful. If anyone wants to spend thousands of dollars on a sound booth nobody is stopping them, but that isn't what this video is about. It's about improving your voice recordings for very little time, effort and cash.
The truth is his design really could be improved upon by making minor modifications based on acoustic princibles. It's kind of funny though, you can spend thousands of dollars on a room and actually make it worse!
At the end of a day it wasn't a bad idea at all! Totally want to try to make a super bad ass version of his idea.
Forever Young I don't know enough about acoustics to add anything to his advice. It would be great if you could post some of the modifications you recommend. I'm sure a lot of people would find it helpful. I for one would be very grateful. :)
Forever Young What are the minor modifications? I'm making mine next week.
Forever Young what's a princible?
It would be hard to recommend exactly how to build one since I myself haven't made one.
But, for starters take a look at this...
www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/superposition/superposition.html
Then this....
artsites.ucsc.edu/ems/music/tech_background/TE-02/modes/Modes.html
^^^^ This is important to understand when thinking how to create a better design. Defiantly can be made better but, it will always have problems
If you would like further help just PM me.
If you are recording voice over for conspiracy videos, you can line the outside of the container with tinfoil.
+OneClickPony HAhaha
+OneClickPony best comment ive seen this year ..LMAO !!
OneClickPony That will be a good tip for the InfoWars, won't it?
love this comment
you could've also said - if you're a conservative or trump-supporter, this project is perfect for you. Bear in mind you'll need to line the OUTSIDE with tinfoil
0:45 "this is my room it has ALOT of walls as you can see" (me) "wow that's a lot of walls"
Jonah Snow the comment police on duty
Jonah Snow
He actually did, he just said it before
Jonah Snow 😂😂😂 yes he did!
LOL
I know... Damn... I only have 8 walls in my room. :(
Hi Les, It would be nice to hear two separate recordings... one in box and one out. For comparison. Also, FYI to cut foam like butter, use an electronic bread knife.
Thanks for Sharing.
might want to get a pop filter as well. But for something homemade it looks really nice.
Just wanted to let you know that your video inspired me to create my own sound booth. While mine differs from yours in construction, it is serving the purpose nicely. I used interlocking foam mats that I had from my kindergarten teaching years. I made a cube from them, and supported it underneath with a tv tray and from the inside, I used a small stand that I had for holding up video lighting. When I want things really soundproof, I put my foam blanket over it and over myself as well.
Just wanted to say thanks as i never would have thought to do this without the seeds of ideas and creation your video planted in my brain.
+Patti Pike Thank you for the mat idea - I already have some I can use.
Patti Pike that is so awesome!
Thank God a DIY tutorial that actually helps Canadians get the supplies they need.
Literally favourited and liked just because of that. Great result, looking forward to isolate my sound even more
That coffee intro reminded me of a home instructional video from 2003 haha
Wow, so relatable. I love coffee too.
I've never had coffee but its a great video!
Exactly what I was looking for. Just got a Blue Yeti for doing voiceovers on my channel videos and have no audio experience so this was bang-on perfect. As a Canadian was also loving the Canadian Tire shout-out and metric conversion! lol Thanks again. :)
Very ingenious and easy to follow. I have seen other similar approaches involving complex geometric shells, made out simple, also readily available materials. But they were surprisingly difficult to put together. This method confirms simpler can be better! I definitely will be devoting a Saturday afternoon to this. And my wife will appreciate that it can "disappear.
I was just about to get discouraged about recording at home when I found your video. Thank you for restoring my energy and optimism.
A very practical solution! Love it! Thanks for the idea.
Wishleads
Yes, I do love coffee! Thank you for asking.
Thank you Les for posting this!! Excellent advice. I got my music on the "air" using my home recording studio at a time when the internet was not available. One of my ideas which I got from a book as opposed to the internet, was how to build a simple sound studio.I used a "Tape recorder". And a mixer. And plenty of sound proofing.
Tape has it's own ambient noise which you have to deal with during mixing and as much elimination of noise as possible. When digital programs came around I transferred those tape recordings into excellent CD quality recordings. Mike placement , which I am sure Les McDonald knows about is essential along with installing sound proofing and this kind of
stuff. But it can be done. Especially now. It is easier than ever to record quaility recordings.
don´t grow up too much, best line ever. I will follow this teaching.
My wife wishes I would grow up a little more LOL
Really good idea! i will be making one my own. Can't seem to shake my backgound noice on my video, and i think this will help lift my videos to the next level.
very cool vid , makes a lot of sense and if doesn't work it will make good padded container for the christmas decoration.
Thanks so much, Les!
Making the transition from DJ to Voice Overs and was ready to drop a bundle and lose my office storage closet to get a quality quite sound. Got the box...the foam...and the "Yeti". Works like a dream! HEY, you don't need the world's quietest room...just the ability to isolate the mic!
Did you still holes in yours?
This sounds like a prefect solution for what I was looking to do. Cheaper, AND more space efficient, too! Thanks!
Hey. U need to poke lots and lots of small holes in the bakk and sides of the box to help let the low frequencies pass through instead of trapping it around the Mic causing your vocals to sound dead or muffled.
SWEEETTT!!! LOL Thank man going to make one of these.
Awesome! Thank you so much for this. I already had the container like yours so the Walmart trip had everything else. I work from home like you do, you saved me a money. Thank You!
SWEEEET! This thing really works a charm. A lot better than hanging blankets all over the room.
This dude has an unusual sense of humor!!! XD
0:12 "Coffee passes down throat"
lol
XD
Hamilton Handley Removals that's what she said
And that was when I ended the video!
Thank you, Les! This really helps. I am just starting in my voice over business and I don't even have my own place. Yikes! So, this inexpensive sound proof box is perfect for what I need right now. Thanks again.
Your build looks great. I built one with a spare cardboard box and some chair-seat foam, very similar to yours but a tad smaller. I really just threw mine together in less than 10 min. This is the BEST way to improve recording quality! My recordings afterward were so much more quite (noise-wise). Good job!
I already had my eye on that microphone, but this pretty much has me sold. I will definitely be building something like this for my channel. Great budget build!
OK, I am convinced, your sound quality is awesome, will build it this week! :)
+István Szép (Pestodesign) its been a month...you didnt build it did you? xD
I did! Looks almost the same :)
nice! do you like it?
I am still deciding if it is better with or without it actually! But I will use it for my next course and we will see!
cool
It works GREAT. I made mine even for less $$ than what you quoted, probably because I bought the storage bin right after Christmas. I am devoted to promoting your video to others (in fact I just did a few minutes ago) because I have a Yeti Demonstration video that I made and uploaded to my channel. It became and still is very popular because my husband is a system PC engineer and we were able to solve Yeti user problems 99% of the time. This generated referrals and now I intend to refer YOUR mini sound booth video as well. Genius! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video. My room makes my recordings echo so much and I get a lot of street traffic noise as well. I'll be crafting one of these in the next few days.
that editing is fire af
I'm gonna sample the "Sweet" and "kinda' sweet" haha
Thank you!! This video helped me alot with becoming a voice over artist. I live in a very small apartment with no space. Your small booth will be a nice way to start for now.... Thanks again!!
That's the microphone I purchased a few years ago but failed to do anything with. I submitted a few auditions on voices.com but stopped because it sounded horrible. Not the microphone but my lack of sound isolation. I'm hoping you're my saving grace. Thank you for taking the time to help clueless guys like me.
Automatic like for "SWEET".
I'd suggest adding some foam to the lid and finding a way to prop/stand/tape it in a stable way beside/behind you to catch any reverb that escapes the foam and plastic container. In lieu of spending more money for thicker foam, you could use two layers in the back/bottom of the container as well. Once you've glued the first layer in simply use a few safety pins to secure the next layer to it. Kudos still, probably the best setup for cheap I've seen yet. (I know one radio pro who still simply drapes a beach towel over her head and makes a "tent". It's hard to fault her setup as she's getting repeat jobs using this setup so she's doing something right.)
It works, not perfectly but I've seen some great results. As I mentioned above (I think) I have a friend who does professional radio spots like this in a pinch. She's a radio pro w 4hr daily show and she's done a lot of spots like this... getting same as studio rates.
Totally agree with you, the vibration alone would affect it, sitting in the bin like that
just got the Yeti and was stoked to find this video! thanks for sharing
thanks, very SWEET idea, using the sound box to transport all the audio equipment to location, you just made my life easier, thanks again
First off... KUDOS for going home made. I always like and appreciate innovation like this. I am a VO talent with a home studio aw well... I am listening to this video thru my studio setup and in my Sennheiser HD280Pro Studio Monitoring Headphones as to not have outside elements interfere with my observation of your audio. I can hear definitive room reflection at the beginning of the video when you are looking at the camera... I am not sure what Mic you are using at the beginning but it sounds like the Yeti at a distance... then you cut to the box and audio recorded within... my first impressions is that the room reflections are still there and not eliminated or reduced at all. You also get a slight proximity effect as you are in a small enclosed area with the mic. In fact, the recording in the vocal booth amplifies the room noise more as I can hear your house furnace/fan running which was not so obvious in the first part of the video but somehow became more obvious in the last part of the video when you returned to looking at the camera. So all in all, a good attempt but to get the most bang for the buck (so to speak) you should sound treat the room more and the immediate area around the mic from smooth reflective surfaces. The Yeti is prone to pick up fan noises too... so move the mic further away from your computer and ensure the pickup pattern is set to Cardiod. In post production on your audio, if you cannot minimize the room noise and reflections down to an absolute minimum, you should process thru a noisegate. I actually cover these topics on a series I do on my channel... stop on over and check out the discussion.
shut up dude
Rickey Michael Rickey... I don't understand why you'd even come at my comment with that reply. I make very VALID and accurate points. As someone that has worked in the industry since 1987 I speak from deep professional experience. BTW, I checked out your channel... you are a very talented freestyle rapper. Have a great day.
dude shut up
for what its worth i think you are right. the set up he did could not be better for the money he put in it. but yes i can hear some of the outside elements and maybe even some of the sound from the plastic container. i wonder if it would be any better if it was made out of plywood. either way pretty good results, i might be going the same route.
Rickey Michael Keep up the great maturity levels you portray in your comments. At this point I will not respond to you anymore, HOWEVER Will remain respectively active in comments. Have a GREAT DAY!
Hey, Les, great video! Did you ever make a follow-up video on using the iPad or iPhone with the Blue Yeti as a traveling studio?
Thanks Les! I've been recording eLearning modules under a fuzzy blanket. This cost effective solution is much more elegant. Thank you!
I need to try this. Thanks for the idea and details on how to build it.
Haha, best opening line ever!
i love it i have been looking everywere for a good sound proof for a blue yeti and this one is the best
Thank you for this video! I am definitely going to Walmart today and I will make this! It is a simple and inexpensive way to get started making your own voice recordings. It is portable, lightweight, and easy set up.
Try using a low pass filter on your audio. Gettinga lot of buzz
can be so the low-past-filtering using audacity? what range you think is right for his voice... just curious
It would be better if it went over your head than the mic. Dampening is meant to go behind the vocalist for the biggest effect. Sometimes filters are put behind the mic, but its only for that extra bit....e.g. could the same effect happen if you turned the desk facing away from the wall, and just stuck the foam on the wall. (I understand the impracticality i guess)...But also you face away from walls for best positioningso maybe in this bad positioning of all your kit if your mic is on that desk, its the best solution?
You're so funny when you do the coffee in the beginning and at the end. It made my day and made me smile haha 😄 keep doing you!! You're awesome 👌 👏 😎 ❤
On point.. I spent exactly 23 dollars. Bought a 4pk of chair foam, a small tote box and permanent double sided tape... I didn't want to wait for glue to dry.
I recommend using a wood crate instead of a plastic one. Sorry but, after you said, "all of the voice recording you're going to hear throughout this tutorial was recorded in this little mini booth" and "you be the judge" and then I heard the recording, it very well sounded like a plastic bin (at least in the mid-low frequencies). The foam doesn't absorb mid-low frequencies, so the plastic bin vibrates and creates the mid-low resonance that is audible. Wood might help with that (I might also include an idea I had to stack layers and layers of thin cardboard strips to make walls to diffuse even more sound). Also, if one didn't want to buy acoustic foam, perhaps balsa wedges (such as from a cheap BALSA LOT on ebay) would be a nice replacement for dense foam. Someone should try balsa. Even flat panels of it are sold for sound absorbers online. On a positive note, my local Wal-Mart has started selling wooden bins. So aside those issues, great idea and I'm going to try it.
BesideTheVoid Have you figured if it's better or not? I'm thinking of making one myself and I'd like to make sure :)
Yamsassi I found out balsa is very effective, as some commercial sound-absorbing panels are balsa. I also read a research paper that concluded carpet is better than other cheap sound-absorbing materials. I have not tested other wood yet. I would use a cheap wood crate, cover it in balsa wedges (since they are cheaper than balsa panels and are sold as manufacturing leftovers on eBay), then make the inside all carpet. I haven't tried making a vocal booth yet.
***** maybe with glue and good structure one could make an entire crate out of the thin balsa scraps.
BesideTheVoid How about using a cardboard box--would that be better?
Yeah, wanted to say the same thing. Sound is awful.
How/where do you keep your copy so you can read it while recording?
+Pretty Beard Productions That is my question as well
He hadn’t thought that far ahead.
Try a small tablet or cellphone and remote control to trigger forward/back a page. Put on stand in the back like a teleprompter. Won't cut bounce in that area but shouldn't affect it too much.
Awesome! I will be doing this 100% In my recording studio I am working on! I remembered about my mattress topper in my closet! thanks!
thx for the idea!!! and the foam mattress idea is awesome i did not think about that i have some studio foam already but for my walk in closet i should buy couple of the bed foam toppers and use them to sound proof my room!
sweeeeet
The acoustics of the room are still noticable, maybe your foam was too thin?
Very smart, this is an interesting way of doing things as well as having some extra pros from a full sized vocal booth.
Buddy, you've just save me a lot of money with this video. SWEET! Thank you very much!
Thanks Les, but I just went to EBAY and bought a second hand one for $20
I suggest dropping a terrycloth towel over the front. Acts as a pop filter and deadens a lot of room noise. And let's not forget a lot of issues can be improved if not perfected in post production.
Many comments come from people who have much better ears that most audiences, so what they hear and think is mostly academic. If most listeners think it sounds good, it is good enough. Don't let perfect, or perfectionists, be the enemy of good. Go build your studio and start creating.
youvinnie, LOL! Whatever! Why do sloppy half-assers give out advice? You’re encouraging him to settle for half-ass quality. I guess that’s what you must do.
Beautifully done! Thanks for the tutorial, this is going to make an awesome addition to my home office!
SWEET! SWEET! Kinda SWEET! 😁 Thanks for the tutorial, this mini DIY sound booth will be REAL handy for me and my audios - even better that I can totally do it on the cheap 😊
I don't want les mcdonald I want more mcdonald's
😂😂😂😂😂
+VON DUTCH 4wdghu
PAUSE!
While this method does sound better than a microphone sitting on an open desk it still suffers from the fact that the sound source (your voice) is coming from an open room, so the reverb is still present. It is however, greatly diminished since the reflections are deadened by the box. Good way to control, but not completely eliminate reverb.
It's a $23 result for a $23 product. What did you expect? He even made specific note to specifically mention that this was simply for convenience. If you want to splash all out on Anechoic chambers then be my guest, but expect to get what you pay for.
Also, in home studios most producers opt to optimize their room's already existing sound, rather than trying to deaden everything. This is a home studio video.
Thank you very much for such good information. I will let you know when I get it together. I have the mike and the Mac laptop, now the sound proofing.
wow, i never would have thought of this. I've been making a blanket fort, which has been working for me, but that's gonna get stuffy with summer coming up.
I legit got an ad abt voice recording and thought it was the vid
memezilla same lol
same here
dammit I thought it included the mic
We all wish the Blue Yeti was THAT cheap, lol
yes
Julie Sczesny The Smason Meteor is priced pretty GD
Greg 503BG Sanders-Brown Jr and you cant really buy it
At least I bought the Blue Yeti Pro. NOW I'm Building the Mini DIY Sound Booth. I LOVE this Microphone!!!
THANKYOU! this rocks! I will be trying to create this weekend!
I completed mine thank you so much Mr. McDonald, also posted a picture and gave you a shout out on FB :)
Ha ha ha. He said smooth backside, hey I'm just a kid
uhmm why am I hearing fan noise all over at the end, although your mic in the sound booth.
I love this idea! I am about to get into the voice over business, and I'm on a serious budget. This will definitely help with that. Thanks.
This video is amazing! Thank you so much, i just bought a Yeti (upgrading from the snowball) and needed this for my music career. Subscribed to your page!
Shouldn't you use acoustic foam? I feel like that foam is too thin to make that much of a difference.
Most foams will do the job, sound doesnt really like any foam-type surfaces ou carpets, and its supposed to be the cheapest possible só, this is quite good actually
Unfortunately Rafael is completely and utterly wrong. My university acoustics class took bedding foam, quilts, carpet, as well as actual acoustic treatment foam to measure the amount of filter you get from each substance to which frequencies. Live-wire is correct. None of the alternatives filter out ANY harsh frequency’s that audio engineers deem "unpleasant". This is an awful portable vocal booth that will not filter but add unwanted frequencies due to the plastic. The "good" sound quality most of you are hearing would sound better if it were not even there. If you were to use this from a musical standpoint, where you are mixing vocals with other instruments, this would become evident really quickly.
live-wire if you have engineering data using a sweep signal and a spectrum analyzer then show it, else don't pull numbers out of your sinky ass to show you as an expert. you ain't
Baki Pest I mean... anyone that's ever build a diffusor knows that low frequencies are harder to absorb and therefore you'll need thicker, higher grade foam.
DeeJay Easter but surely better then just leaving your mic in the middle of a room aye
If everything was recorded on the blue yeti then why do you have a mic clipped to your shirt?
Probably so that if one microphone ends up having shit quality for some reason there's a chance that the other microphone won't?
Um, he CLEARLY wasn't speaking into the yeti while he was on the video...he would have his face in a box! He had to have the mic on his shirt to record the portion where he wanted a real-time video. He meant that everything where he's doing a voice-over narration (not video) was recorded with the yeti. No offense, but that's kind of a dumb question. haha
Sydney Marie Hughes Well if youve never heard a Yeti mic, it literally picks up EVERYTHING in the room. and since he was facing away from the yeti, it would sound distorted because it would be picking up the echo. THATS why he was wearing the shirt mic.
Eddie Prieboy that's what I was saying. The guy in the video said he was recording everything with the Yeti. Stevepunk was basically implying that he was lying because there's a clip on mic. I was explaining that he used the clip on mic to record the very beginning, but the voice over part was recorded with the yeti. You were simply explaining the reasoning behind what I said. He didn't use the clip on mic to record the primary point of the video.
Sydney Marie Hughes ah my b didnt mean to reply to you. Sorry about thata
Excellent! Thank you. A very Happy New Year to you & family. Regards-Jon.
Finally I found one shows DIY from Canadian markets!!
I spent $23,000 on a high end professional sound booth, then I saw this. Now where's that receipt....
You fucking idiot
omg :S
mannnn
@@dancegod1691 stop you have no right to call them that
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No pop filter on it?
you dont need one if your going to be away from . you would need one if you were going to speak at it from like 6-10 inches away
TheFunnyMuffinGamer Actually it is dependent on the voice you are recording.
Michael Solano ya but i does depend on how close your going to be
I feel like 6-10 inches is kinda close. 6 inches is legit 1 hand length. . . trust me a $15 pop filter is worth if you are spending the money for this kind of mic.
TheFunnyMuffinGamer noooooo you need one always distance has nothing to do with ppppp and ssssss. Always use a pop filter they are not expensive. Sound quality is actually not to bad. Is their any post processing on the vocals?
Oh my God man you just saved me a ton of money and I thank you for that! Just started my voice over freelancing job, so I'm kinda new to all of the DIYs for my home studio. Also, this is super simple, much easier then setting my mattress topper all around me in my storage room. Cheers!
Glad I could help! It's nice to hear when people find my videos helpful! Makes my day!
I could not agree more! This vid was made what- like 7 years ago and still helping people! I just got my first VO gig and was like - ooooo my crap! How am I gonna pull this off. I have the yeti and the Mac but a studio!? And - VOILA! Your video appears lol THANKS A MILLION
thanks for the video. I just bought a nice condenser mic for voice over but I was getting to much echo in my room and picking up other stuff so this is really gonna help
Can i use this for rapping vocals
Yeah
***** lmao
+TheMrBroadcast Hands down the funniest comment ever. I laughed for 10 min. , no kidding. I have no life. I should get one.
Spikeycake I honestly don't see the joke
Purple Nimbus
Then sorry dude...
Nice to start the video out with the most annoying sound in the world..eating or drinking
Wow that sucks that you have misophonia, my ex has that and well.... Shes my ex.
The inability to deal with people that have no manners and cannot stop eating like f-ing pigs? Yeah..I have that. You grew up in house where you weren't taught to eat correctly..don't blame it on something else.
And your ex is over here..sucking quietly ;)
Totally agree!
Forrest Munden How is he eating/drinking like a pig? He took a drink of coffee. That's not being a 'pig'.
If he had dropped it on the floor, rolled around it, then licked it off, I would understand where you're coming from.
I never said "he" ate like a pig. I was making the comment that many people eat like pigs. I think many people eat loudly with no good reason
Thanks so much for this video. Your way of presenting the instructions were spot on!
I love the Blue Yeti USB Microphone. For its price it's amazing. The only issue is that it picks up more than I would like it to! I love this idea!
4:49... nastiest sound ever...
😭😭✌💨
Jesus IsTheWord 0:14 was worse in my opinion.
Personally I find it soothing. Not sure if that's normal but I do know that certain people get super irritated by eating and drinking related noises.
Ive never been annoyed by that. The opposite to be honest.
intro is soooo cringe I'm dying inside
Lol
>blue yhetti
>doncha just love coffee
>sweet
>sweet
>sweet
>kinda sweet
this guy is a zilch
+Oxy and Icy >normie
lmao
great, simple tutorial Les. Thanks!
Thanks so much for concise, easy and economical solution to improve my vocals. I can do this! I'll add a pop filter and I'm set.
It does work this trick. Just not in this video, this is cheap and wasteful. You need proper foam, not "any cheap bed foam"
Exactly, we can still ear his voice echoing the room.
+sp pro
To me it sounds like the actual plastic box itself that's reverberating. And even though he put cheap foam around the inside of the box, he put the microphone stand onto the box itself..
You got a good point.
+Sovrakha what would help? thicker foam? elevate the mic?
***** Thicker foam for sure, as well as elevating the mic. Your best scenario would be to have a hanging mic, but the next best thing would be to put as much shock absorption between the mic stand and the box you put it in.
Dude, this is AWESOME. Thank you so much. I'm definitely building myself one of these this weekend.
Very good... The tutorial was great and I appreciate the advice on the Blue Yeti mic. Thank you!
This was super helpful!! The audio in my vids just never sounded right to me, so I'm gonna make this today. Thank you!!!
Yepp, I was looking for a cheap solution like that. Thanks Les.
Got it :) Got a box and some Elmer spray, son had some foam sheets 2-3 inched with Vee grooves...really sounds great . Thanks indeed
I also did this with a H4N zoom, a cardboard box, and 4 egg cartons. Works fantastic.
At first, I thought that building the box would be the pain, but using a plastic bin is a great tip. Thanks!
Well done buddy, Cheap, Neat, Easy, and quick to do. Thanks for the vid'