As a creative producer or director, you’ve probably considered creating your own home studio to handle all that extra work. But, finding the space and the money can be your biggest hindrances. However, there is good news out there for you. Thanks to technology, we have today what are known as portable recording booths for voiceover recording. They are developed provide near studio quality recording and are easy on the pocket.
Why you need a portable recording booth
The most obvious reason is that you need a sound proof space to carry out your recording projects. Therefore, sound insulation plays a key role here. It prevents sound loss and keeps out noise. All of this can be achieved with the help of a portable recording booth.
Here are some of the key properties that you need to look out for when choosing one.
Sound deadening
A good recording booth should possess a dampening feature to help it deaden sound. Deadening refers to the elimination of high and low frequencies that can interfere with overall recording quality.
Echo reduction
This is another important feature. There are microphones that are super sensitive and thy can pick up ambient noise easily. When there is no dampening feature in the recording booth, you are going to get echo issues. Of course, you don’t have to be told what echoes can do to a voice recording.
So, make sure the booth you are looking at has echo reduction. It must keep sound from reflecting or bouncing.
Clarity
The next most important feature for a sound booth to possess is clarity of sound. When sound waves are produced, they get stretched and they bounce off surfaces throughout the time they spend traveling. As a result, a non-insulated room will cause the recording to be disturbed.
Portable recording booths compensate for this by creating a small insulated space within which the recording can completed without issues.
According to Sound on Sound, a company that manufactures vocal screens and booths, an effective recording booth can eliminate reflections by preventing their escape, which is done through sound absorption. Additionally, they also prevent the reflections from entering the mic.
The screens in these booths are designed to handle their proximity with the mic. As a result, the reflections come in only after the direct sound is produced and are audible as colorations instead of echoes or reverberations.
Also, the concave design of the screen uses acoustic focusing to enhance this effect.
ABOUT ROBERTA –
Roberta is a Professional AND award Winning International Voiceover Actor, as well as an accomplished on-camera actress and spokesperson. She lives in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area and is the owner of Roberta Kennedy Voice Talent and RK Productions, Inc.
She voices for companies around the world using her state of the art, broadcast quality studio. She’s hired for commercials, web demos and explainer videos, product infomercials, documentaries, promo/imaging, political ads, e-learning videos, podcasts, guided real estate tours, telephony/IVR projects, high profile corporate presentations, video games and character animation.
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