Readily available materials that will work for high/mid absorption?

[AdamWathan]

Hey guys, I'm planning on building one of those portabooths but it's damn near impossible to find a place that will sell me one sheet of Auralex foam and ship to Canada. Is there anything I could substitute it for that would work just as well? I'm not really concerned about portability, like I don't care if I can't fold it all down like you can with the real portabooth design. I just need something to line the box with that will absorb like the foam that I would be able to find at stores locally... Any ideas?

 

[broken81]

Is foam even good for a vocal booth?

I know i see it in everyones vocal rooms but i thought that stuff just killed a lot of mids. Maybe I'm wrong. :Smug:

We got like 4-5 huge sheets from our old practice spot just stuffed in a closet. Maybe i will break this out and build a vocal booth or something if its good for that.

 

[AdamWathan]

http://digitalprosound.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=89503

That's what I want to build... Someone here built one and the results were fantastic!

 

[broken81]

yea i seen the thread with that porta booth on here. Made me want to built one. I know there is quite a few big foam places here in Michigan. Not sure how the shipping thing goes to Canada though.

 

[Daunt]

Just buy the wave shaped foam made for mattresses. I'm sure you can find it easily.

 

[AdamWathan]

Just buy the wave shaped foam made for mattresses. I'm sure you can find it easily.

Thanks for the info bro! Is that going to work pretty well you think? Is the Auralex stuff really rigid and dense? I'm not sure what qualities I should be looking for in this foam...

 

[broken81]

Yea i bought a bunch of mattress foam things way back when i was just starting out. They can definitely make a room dead. So I'm pretty sure your just aiming to make that cube dead and that mattress foam would work fine.

 

[AdamWathan]

Yea i bought a bunch of mattress foam things way back when i was just starting out. They can definitely make a room dead. So I'm pretty sure your just aiming to make that cube dead and that mattress foam would work fine.

Awesome thanks! I also found this site which has a lot of cheap Auralex style foam for sale, I just e-mailed to see if they'll ship to Canada...

www.foambymail.com

$17 for a 12 pack of 12" x 12" pyramid foam... Not too shabby! I'm going to hit up Walmart today and see how much one of those egg crate foam mattress pads is though... Online it looks like they are in the $30-$50 range The cheaper the better!

 

[Daunt]

I pretty sure any foam will work for the application. Try to find shops that make custom mattresses. They will sell the small pieces cheap.

 

[AdamWathan]

Just got back from Walmart, found a foam pad for a twin size bed for $12 and a 13 x 13 x 13 collapsible cube for $8. Will report with results!

 

[AdamWathan]

Looks even more ghetto than the original portabooth haha... I'll let you guys know how it sounds tomorrow. $20 in materials!

 

[broken81]

Looks like it will work perfect. Now are you using that same little mic stand thing to hold the mic in there?

 

[AudioGeekZine]

At least you used a new mattress pad for that. Nothing like singing into a box with stains and pubic hairs looking at you.

 

[AdamWathan]

Hahaha... Yeah, but I think pubes add a nice warm coloration to the tone. Or was that tubes?

broken: I don't have a little mic stand so what I'm going to do is cut a hole in the bottom that I can fit a regular sized boom through and I'm going to mount the booth on top of 2 mic stands with the booms set up like "T"s. Hopefully that will work, I'm sort of worried about the feet for the mic stands getting in the way of each other but it should be okay.

 

[broken81]

Post a picture when its finished like that cause I'm kinda lost. If you get it working like that though i think i might just build one also!

 

[Aaron Smith]

Awesome thanks! I also found this site which has a lot of cheap Auralex style foam for sale, I just e-mailed to see if they'll ship to Canada...

www.foambymail.com

$17 for a 12 pack of 12" x 12" pyramid foam... Not too shabby! I'm going to hit up Walmart today and see how much one of those egg crate foam mattress pads is though... Online it looks like they are in the $30-$50 range The cheaper the better!

I dropped about $350 into Pyramid foam and corner absorbers from that site, only to have some lurker come on here and tell me that those sound absorption ratings are plagiarized and that Foam By Mail is dishonest, etc. I felt stupid for about two minutes, but regardless of whether or not the ratings are accurate or not, it has definitely helped the sound in my control room a lot...so as a satisfied Foam By Mail customer, I would say go for it!