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I applaud your efforts. That's outstanding.
I like your decision to use glass wool; it's so much more effective than foam, especially on the bass frequencies.
If I can make a few comments:
You may want to experiment with the mic position. Even soft material reflects a certain amount of sound, so having it very close to the booth wall is going to pick up quite strong reflections in to the back of the mic. You also have that wooden upright support very close to the mic which is going to reflect sound. See if moving the mic forward 20-30cm makes any difference. If you do that, you may also need to experiment with the tablet position (reflections, again).
The other area to consider treating is behind you - that's the direction the mic's pointing so that's obviously where any residual echo will be picked up. A blanket hanging close to your back is often effective. Also, if you have the space to turn the booth so that your back is facing a corner of the room rather than being square to the wall. That often sounds better because it's harder for echoes to be reflected from room corners.
Happy experimenting, and thanks for sharing your hard work.
-Ian-
I like your decision to use glass wool; it's so much more effective than foam, especially on the bass frequencies.
If I can make a few comments:
You may want to experiment with the mic position. Even soft material reflects a certain amount of sound, so having it very close to the booth wall is going to pick up quite strong reflections in to the back of the mic. You also have that wooden upright support very close to the mic which is going to reflect sound. See if moving the mic forward 20-30cm makes any difference. If you do that, you may also need to experiment with the tablet position (reflections, again).
The other area to consider treating is behind you - that's the direction the mic's pointing so that's obviously where any residual echo will be picked up. A blanket hanging close to your back is often effective. Also, if you have the space to turn the booth so that your back is facing a corner of the room rather than being square to the wall. That often sounds better because it's harder for echoes to be reflected from room corners.
Happy experimenting, and thanks for sharing your hard work.
-Ian-
I have made some further modifications (does it ever stop?!). I put the microphone into the suspension again, after quieting it down (it made some squeaking noises before, which I fixed with some superglue). The microphone is now about 15cm (6") from the insulation. I also added a frame on which I can hang a blanket (see pictures), this should reduce echo from behind me. The first recordings with the new setup will commence shortly. [edit] Here's a test recording with the setup - I don't hear an echo, do you? http://mmikw.altervista.org/booth_new.mp3 [/edit]
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That sounds pretty good now. What mic are you using?
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I use the Samson Meteor Mic. Not the most expensive piece of recording equipment but for this purpose, it's well suited, I think.lurcherlover wrote: ↑January 19th, 2019, 11:25 pm That sounds pretty good now. What mic are you using?
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Yes, I thought your voice sounded very good. You certainly have a good set up now.
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Thank you All that hard work is beginning to pay offlurcherlover wrote: ↑January 20th, 2019, 1:45 am Yes, I thought your voice sounded very good. You certainly have a good set up now.
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This is interesting, but we do not encourage images in the forum unless really necessary and you have posted a large number of very large images when something a fraction of the size would have worked just as well. I don't want to have to edit your posts but could you please see what you can do to make them all much much smaller ?
You just need to make the images you link to small.
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You just need to make the images you link to small.
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Proposal: How about I remove the images altogether and instead, post a link to a gallery on Imageshack where everyone can look at the images at their leisure?annise wrote: ↑January 20th, 2019, 4:51 am This is interesting, but we do not encourage images in the forum unless really necessary and you have posted a large number of very large images when something a fraction of the size would have worked just as well. I don't want to have to edit your posts but could you please see what you can do to make them all much much smaller ?
You just need to make the images you link to small.
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I don't really like that idea but can you still edit the subject of the thread? You could supply a warning there.
As for the pics, you could reduce them in size easily with the batch processor of GIMP. I think there can be seen enough if thy have a size like about 200x300 px, there aren't too much important details. Und Fläche geht quadratisch ein
Never mind, I'm resizing the images and turning each into a link to an album on Imageshack with the full size images there.merendo07 wrote: ↑January 20th, 2019, 5:25 amProposal: How about I remove the images altogether and instead, post a link to a gallery on Imageshack where everyone can look at the images at their leisure?annise wrote: ↑January 20th, 2019, 4:51 am This is interesting, but we do not encourage images in the forum unless really necessary and you have posted a large number of very large images when something a fraction of the size would have worked just as well. I don't want to have to edit your posts but could you please see what you can do to make them all much much smaller ?
You just need to make the images you link to small.
Anne
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Wonderful!