Hermit's video: HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN VOCAL BOOTH One Minute Voice Tip

- If you don't understand something, or know where to buy it, pick a keyword and google it until you do. - Audio Foam, try 1 or 2 inch pyramid cut. It only addresses certain chunks of the audio spectrum but it's good enough for now, don't sweat the rest. Buy it. It needs to be shipped. Open the package and let it expand. It's been compressed. - How big are you making your vocal booth? Measure everything and decide how much wood you need. You need a floor, walls, and a roof. that's at least 6 pieces of wood. I used MDF - it's cheap and DENSE - which is good for my purposes. It's also straight, doesn't warp, and HEAVY. If everything is decoupled (ours isn't because it's INSIDE an already decoupled room (which is technically another layer of decoupling anyways), we just needed another layer of sound deadening and isolation) You're gonna need measurements for every length of wood, on the exterior and interior. - Metal Studs. Less mass for sound to travel through via vibration. 16 inches on center insulation will work, make sure it's for metal studs. I used Rockwool SafeNSound. - Lots of screws. All your wood is gonna be 3/4 inch thick so get some 5/8, 3/4, 1" and 2" screws. The small ones will need to go through metal and have flat heads (hard to find) the big ones are fine to be wood screws. Depending on your decoupling you'll need U shaped things to screw everything together so nothing is screwed directly in to the next thing. - Computer fans. as many as you want. you need to understand how many cubic feet of air per minute these babies can push. then understand that's free air, and your situation will have static pressure involved. so figure out how much pressure you've introduced in to the equation and find out how much air your fan moves now. this depends on the air maze you build to compensate for punching holes in your walls. air mazes are exactly what they sound like, they slow down the air and muffle everything going in and out so you still have sound dampening going on. you're gonna need to strip some wires of the comp fan and splice it into a 12v wall wart. google it. it's not hard, but don't kill yourself with stupidity and electricity. Ideally you'll want to change over the air in the booth 6 times every hour, less and people will feel stuffy, more and it'll probably be loud. - If you want A/C in there it's going to use the same channels as this. How you get air and a/c IN to the booth is also how you get cables and power IN to the booth. THat's a hole on the floor or bottom of the booth. That's the intake. the exhaust for air is on the roof or top of the booth. that's convection. the computer fan is quiet, they have rankings for this, our is 9-11db that's quiet. it's also outside the booth. - Use ducting or PVC to plug your air maze in to and out of the booth. ducting is better. PVC echos. make it quiet, use an acoustic sealant. - you don't always need screws. sometimes greenglue and acoustic sealant will do. - the door. you need to make this sealed. easier with 2 doors, possible with one. a small door is better. ours is 30 inches, you could go as small as 19 inches (but how would you get a chair in?) - interior wall, we used layers of rubber, plywood, and acoustic panelling, then audio foam. oh, and inbetween is where you put the rockwool insulation. - hang lights, run cords - we had a leftover carpet, and cut that to fit the floor. the floor is rubber, mdf, rubber, carpet. 4 layers total. we could have built a different type of subfloor but we didn't need to, you probably don't either. - If you google "building your own vocal booth" you will find explanations in more depth about literally every step of the process. You can do it! Don't believe the ppl that make it in to this impossible task. it isn't. it's also not easy. budget $500 - $2,000 and you'll be fine. It took us a week to build this including time spent purchasing materials. Please Subscribe to our channel! - https://goo.gl/EqQarf Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hermitcollectiv Check out our website - https://www.hermitcollective.com find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hermitsherpa More Twitters; - https://twitter.com/carolannimation - https://twitter.com/hanswactor