How To Remove Echo and Reverb In Any Room For Video and Sound Recording 

Loved your video... especially that my viewers have complained about my basement studio sound... the only problem is that I don't want to hang stuff on walls and those blankets were a bit pricy for me.. but it is great to keep it in mind for the future... loved the video and the way you explained it... well done.

For the rest of the world watching: 74lbs = 33kg

I LOVE sound blankets. Nice video guys. Thanks for sharing!

I had a few of the B&H Matthews ones. They are just very expensive packing blankets and are not really made for blocking out sound. I have a few of the Vocal Booth ones and, as you know, they are great. They are specifically manufactured for blocking sound/studio use. The B&H ones are not. Studio is coming a long. Looks great!

Another awesome video! Keep up the great work!

Flawless video! Keep it up. So much value.

Perfect style video guys!

Awesome video! I have been using foam (actually mattress toppers are much cheaper than the foam squares) and they work well but in my new studio, I think these will work much better

Great video. Thanks for this, guys. I needed a solution that was mobile and found that packing/moving blankets might do the trick if they're thick enough.

Me in my head: "Wow, that sounds perfect" Him 2 seconds later: "Not perfect but way better" Well excuseeeee me

This is SO useful! Thank you.

These are moving blankets. Some brands make thicker versions, which I would personally consider a true "sound blanket", but for myself, I went and purchased several moving blankets for about $15 each. Double them up (which is what I've done) and you've got a "sound blanket" for $20. I then bought a gromet kit, which is SUPER easy to use, cut some slits in the blankets and hammered the gromets in. I've got my studio totally covered for less than the cost of one "sound blanket" from those professional brands. I have a boomy voice, creates a lot of room reverb reflections, the moving blankets, sorry, "sound blankets" solved that problem for me.

Puerto Rico!!! Im a new RU-vidr from the island! Thanks for the video, helped alot

As always a great video an on topic for what I need right now! 'Heavy' houses are great but so much echo as you say.

There is a big difference between absorption and refraction. It’s incredibly hard to make a room soundproof. But to deaden the sound within the room it’s not hard at all. The main reason studio foam is popular is because of its curved surfaces, it absorbs a little and refracts quite a bit. I don’t recommend studio foam unless it is advertised as fire retardant. An insurance company won’t pay out if you put foam on your walls unless you prove it’s high quality and fire retardant. You guys definitely hit the nail on the head with high density blankets, the only way you could make it better is to make sure the blankets are never straight and have lots of folds in them.

Instead of screws into the walls, I suggest 3M Command Strip hooks. They can hold a lot of weight. They can be removed with no damage to the walls!

Amazing, thanks for sharing

Awesome video. Thanks

thank u men .thATS WAS GREAT

Sound blankets are good for upper mid-range and highs, but almost meaningless for low mid-range and low end sound, which is MORE destructive but not as obvious (the "reverb" you were talking about). You can get some bass traps in the corners where any walls meet at a 90 degree angle to help.

Thank you!

Good thing I'm going for Vinyl for my future home, gotta have some IIC 60.

Thanks for this video. I'm trying to do a DIY video studio in my basement on the cheap and I was concerned about the low 8 ft. ceiling. I have tile floor and threw down about six pillows for sound dampening between my and my camera, hung a blanket behind the camera, and draped a blanket over a closet door that's nearby. I still have some echo but it's much better than before. Once I can afford sound blankets I'll look into that option; this is just a hobby for me. Do you recommend putting some sort of padding on a ceiling that's 8 feet?

amazing vid

Thanks for the video, cool. I am looking for something portable that I can place on my desk when I need to record something with my Mic. But without having to prepare a whole room for recording. I think these are called Vocal booth, it would be cool to find something portable that I can assemble only whe needed and keep out of the way when I dont.

Oh my, lot of my doubts got cleared! Will a thick rug also work ?

Been advocating for sound blankets for years!

There are some great diy acoustic panels ideas on the web, you have to put some foam on the ceiling, some small rugs on the floor as well. And of course, keep the microphone close. Corners and parallel surfaces are the more vulnerable spots. You need to add some extra stuff in the corners or build a bass trap. And if the mic stays out of frame, you can also get a microphone acoustic shield. Anyway, the best way to fight with sound reflection is with more layers of dampeners. If you use blankets, then they don't need to be heavy, but need to add more of them.

Thanks

Have you placed blankets behind your background? I need to create green screen effect. Would you suggest to add blankets behind the green backdrop or just on the left and right of the presenter?

Which ones did you get from vocal booth??

Do you need to put sound blanket on the ceiling or is the floor enough?

Can regular floor carpet be used? I live in Jamaica and shipping a 33kg package here will cost an arm and a leg

Good video

I really like those grey backdrops because it fits with my youtube aesthetic. I couldn't find the link though.

Alot of work drilling holes into concrete. You know you can get Sennheiser capsules in super cardiod? I worked at NASDAQ for 8 years in our Times Square studios where we had a 40 foot ceiling and glass walls to the street. CNBC also used the super cardiod capsules for Fast Money..We had 16 sennheiser mics, all with the super capsules and they did the trick.

Layered towels in a frame. Best.

Thought (mistakenly) from the title this was going to be about correcting audio in post when you accidentally get it wrong during production. This video was helpful, but just wondered if you've run across software that does a good job removing echo/reverb after the fact.

HELP! Does anyone have any advice on how to stop the echo when me and my partner record in the same space. We share an office and want to record us gaming together but when we play the recording back it sounds like our voices echo really bad. We are both using condenser desk microphones and recording through our ps4's. We can't figure out a way to fix it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Might be a silly question, but is a blanket not needed on the ceiling?

Just wondering, what was the media rate for taking the blankets on the plane?

Since the walls are cement, did you have to use special Tapcon screws?

Thumbs Up 👍🏼 just for saying that your studio is in Puerto Rico.

i have problem when i record my voice with my microphone the microphone can record the noise of the streets how to avoid that i though to insulate my windows and buy those noise blanket is it ok to proceed like that ?

yes, everyone always forgets the ceiling!

Good info thanks. Woulda been good at 4:53 , to hear the echo after placing a rug or treating the ceiling. #OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedInformation #Audioded

guys, just one note - why didn´t you measure reverberation time before and after - that would be so helpfull! Even if you used a phone app, there is no need for class 1 accuracy

Reminds me of a guy I used to go to school with🤭

Please help me. I just moved into a new house that is an echo chamber.

its John Cena without the steroids! lol. Thank you for this informative video, I am a reverb lover, when I choose to have reverb! not when I am recording!

You need acoustic absorbers like rockwool or fiberglass to treat a room for acoustics!

The trouble with this is you can't see any of the room itself if all the walls are covered in blankets, so if the setting where you (or actors) are talking is important this isn't of use.

Those are moving blankets and the ones with grommets are used in elevators when tenants are moving in or out...js

Those blue blankets look just like the moving blankets you can get at Home Depot for half the price.

Good change. But you're left with a bass resonance problem. You will need bass traps in every ceiling corner to knock that down. Maybe even floor and wall corners. The blankets can do almost nothing to control the bass reflections with all that concrete. But they’re great for the mid to higher frequencies. Edit: To those who seem to think that bass traps are unnecessary for cleanly recording anything other than bass drums, I have to respectfully disagree. The general definition of "low" frequencies in audio is anything from 20hz all the way up to 250hz. The sound blankets, while they are the best available at an affordable price (and I also recommend them), are tested to have low and rapidly decreasing attenuation of frequencies below 250hz. They aren't even tested below 100hz, where they are basically ineffective already. Typically the human voice is rolled off around 80hz without affecting the impact of the "fullness" of the voice. If you go up to 120hz you're already starting to make male voices sound thin, and 160hz is only used when you are forced to cut through some wind noise to even make a voice understandable. So even with a hard bass roll-off at 80hz you're still faced with the reverberation of anything from about 78hz to around 500hz, that cannot be adequately controlled by sound blankets. Those frequencies will concentrate in the corners of the room and reflect back into the microphone. They will be much better controlled by some deep foam blocks (or thick folded blankets or whatever you can find) in the ceiling corners. Bass roll-off is not a magic cure for low frequency reverberation in a small, enclosed space, even if the human voice doesn't go down to 40hz like a drum kit. When the room itself is basically a concrete box, you will need some bass traps to get a clean recording of a person talking in a normal tone with no other audio in the track to cover up the reverb. This is not the same thing at all as trying to record someone playing instruments, a whole band, or a singer that will then be mixed with a music track. Recording clean unaccompanied spoken word voice over is hard. On headphones I can clearly hear the barrel effect in all post-treatment sound clips in the video. Even the part at the end with the lav mic. And these aren't even very good headphones.

Just put a sound blanket on the floor, don't need no fancy carpet hahaha

They are blue because they are standard furniture movers blankets.

You drilled the walls, in the end ;-)

tom brady

oliver heldens what are you doing there

I need your email we need your service in our church we its a large room and with so much echo

What kills me is lots of bars and other places used for social gatherings and live bands have absolutely no sound treatment of any kind, so you just get a huge cacophony of noise when a lot of people show up and start talking at the same time, particularly when there's also music involved. It doesn't take a genius to improve it. Anything with a soft surface--furniture, clothes, rugs, etc.--will contribute to improving the situation. Sure, you can spend insane amounts of money on fancy gear designed for studios, but for most purposes, you just need something to kill the bulk of the echoes, not create an ideal recording environment.

I'm puertorican

If only my landlord allowed it lol

Wait... When started you had the blankets in the background already and you had echo

it's not echo, it's reverberation.

Most people don't know the difference between reverb and echo

Avoids sticking foams and drills holes for screws instead 😅

Sound blankets! hahahaahha, that's brilliant. You could have just bought blankets!!

Why you look like Tom Brady tho

You hear the word handmade when a merchant speaks? You run the hell away as fast as you can. Applies to every country on every continent and even in space:) Nice presentation though gave me a nice laugh

All houses in pr are poured concrete because of hurricanes

All this for RU-vid Blogging.... don't you think you push it a bit too far....!