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Having a home voice over studio isn't as expensive as you think it is, especially when it comes to good acoustic treatments! Gabby goes over some simple things you can be on the look for to DRASTICALLY improve the sound quality of your voice over recording space.
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Cheap DIY Soundproofing For Your Booth - 8:30
Hey guys, it’s Gabby. So I want to talk you about soundproofing. Now technically the title of this video and what I just said is really like a huge misnomer. There’s no such thing as soundproofing. Ok? That’s like NASA stuff. Really what we use in voiceover is acoustic treatment or acoustic dampening. But everybody just calls it soundproofing anyway, which is fine. If you’re just getting going, there’s a lot of confusion about equipment and probably even more so about building a room or a space in which to record your voiceovers. There are some outstanding do-it-yourself ways to get going. You can basically forego aesthetics and instead build a space to record that isn't going to look the best but is definitely going to get the job done. So I want to talk to you today about some of the alternatives and the things that you can do.
First of all understand that a studio space doesn't have to be very big. A standard regular size closet, not a walk-in, can be a suitable recording space. The smaller the space you start out with is, the less acoustic treatment you’re going to need. And the acoustic treatment is where a lot of your money comes from, so don't go too, too crazy. You can also build a modular or a portable type of setup using PVC pipe, or if you’ve got a little bit of basic carpentry skills, just some two-by-fours and not whole lot else, because really sheet rock and walls are kind of optional. You’re going to use other materials to make up that soundproof barrier.
Quite possibly the easiest and the least expensive way to go ahead and get a booth space started is with pillows. Pillows, and blankets toppers, and mattress pads, and anything that you can think of that is squishy and dense, ok, because this is what creates your sound barrier. This is how simple this is. Right now I’m talking to you and I’m speaking into an open-air space, and as soon as I put this pillow in front of me, my sound is cut, probably by half if not more, because the pillow is doing what’s supposed to do or intended to do in that situation. It’s stopping the sound, it’s absorbing it, and that’s what you want to have happen. So old pillows, blankets, couch cushions, quilts, you name it, and honestly one of my earliest voiceover booths was built by going to a Goodwill type store and buying up every single squishy, cushy type of material that they had, taking it to a Laundromat, and then placing it inside my little closet. And it can be quite effective. And so really inexpensive, and as far as how to adhere into the wall, anything you want. Liquid nail is the most permanent, but you can use Velcro. You can nail them depending on what it is. Sometimes you can just take some basic nails and tack them especially if it’s quilts or blankets and things like that.
Other thing that works really, really well is carpet padding. It’s ugly as sin, but [laughs] it really, really gets the job done because carpet padding's primary function is sound absorption. It’s sound dampening between the floors of your house. So remnants from a carpet shop can do wonders to create a really, great sound absorption process, and then you can just cover it over with a fabric or something that you like that doesn't look all hideous and speckly like the soundproofing material does. Then you get up into more professional things from there... (continued)
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30 сен 2024
