The BEST DIY Vocal Booth On A Budget (FREE BLUEPRINTS) 

"You can really hear how quiet it is in here!" (background music entirely masking the room tone) 😂

I'm definitely using a closet.

OMG, her voice. She has that slightly forward vocal tone with a slight high-end boost that I LOVE LOVE LOVE in a female voice. I kinda melted over here

The sound improvement is impressive.

I built a vocal booth for myself, using your recommendations, and like it so much. Thanks alot 🙏

Civil engineer here - I stumbled upon this video as i am looking for ways to make myself a diy booth too and I have one problem with the booth you constructed - make some diagonal pipes as well - if someone clumsy enough bumps into the booth it could easily "fold" itself (as it is not statically stable) and likely get the joints damaged and you will have to redo it. Other than that thanks for some new stuff to keep in mind. Great video ;)

In the video, it says to click on the link below and it will allow me to download the blueprints and calculator. The link takes me to a video on creating a music career. I watched the video - but no blueprints or calculator. How do I download the two items described in the video?

Dude, are you joking? Memory foam mattresses cost about $500+ each. I could buy myself a decent pre-made vocal booth for that amount of money. Unless you assumed that I already have 4 memory foam mattresses, which would imply I have a family, or roommates, that would let me tear up their mattress fro recording vocals.... LOL.

Most problems I am hearing in home studio's is the fact that I can hear rumble a lot of times. Sure, you can cut the low end off, but in a lot of cases it cuts off the body of the voice as well. Also it's not the way you want to encounter the problem, you want to eliminate the low frequency vibrations that came from your neighbors walking or traffic, that traveled thru all the concrete and wood, into the mic stand and the actual walls off your vocal booth. Maybe with budget studio mics it's not that big of a problem but when working with more expensive models it could be. They can be real sensitive and pick up the tiniest vibrations, add some compression to the channel and you can hear your neighbors television, walking around and stuff. So my suggestion is to start from the bottom. Build a good soundproof floor, it's about the hardest thing to soundproof but most times it's worth the effort. You don't have to do the whole floor, only the part where the booth is standing. There are numerous ways to build a soundproof floor. But I think the prefab tiles are good to start with and make the easiest way to do the job.

Hey man thank you so much for all the material and knowledge you provide us. You're really doing something here!

Very good and helpful plans. Thank you. Cost me $66.30 for the PVC frame (no blankets) --> all from Home Depot including the PVC cutters (which were awesome and so easy to use) and the shower rings. Also, I needed 8 of the 10-foot pipes to build the default size in the calculator.. might want to grab 9 in case you make a mistake. Took me under 2 hours to measure, cut, and build the PVC pipe frame.

Should've found this much sooner... the difference is REAL!! GREAT WORK

Good idea, but for about $200 you can get some wood, rockwool, and screws to build a booth that will capture a wider frequency range. I tried the blanket method at first but I noticed the blankets only really helped with higher frequencies. Low frequencies (deep voices) were still coming through the blankets a little. My booth walls were built like so; Key: r=rockwool (4in), p=plywood, f=acoustic foam (2in), e=empty space (2in), b=burlap fabric p_e_r_b_f The empty space helps with those low reflections, the walls are a bit thick but a buddy of mine can play a saxaphone in there and very little noise comes out into the room. I put a bit more work/money into my booth but you could build a very good booth for vocals with just some wood and some rockwool, maybe some screen mesh stapled around it to keep it all together. Anyway still a very good tip/idea, kudos.

thank you thank you thank you! i'm using this as the start of my soundproof cave :-D (not a musician - just someone who finds constant noise very stressful & distracting)

can even hear the difference on my apple headset 😂 such an improvement!

FYI, even at $5-10k it's still Cheaper to just buy one if you can't diy and plan to hire a carpenter. A basic build with a door, a window, 4 walls, a ceiling and floor covered with sound dampening on inside and outside basic finish like speaker box carpet or paint would likely be 4-6 days 8 hours a day. When you add materials and labor it would be very hard to compete with a company capable of building multiple booths every day. This is one of the most basic simple diy projects I've found.

I don't have a walkin closet in my apartment. Just a normal closet and it sounded VERY dry. I put the mic between a bunch of tshirts, put a blanket behind it, and then put up a curtain rod behind me to hang more blankets. Sounded really dry. However, the reason I'm here looking for other solutions is that I share my closet wall with my neighbor's bedroom and I don't really want to be singing to them.

I love your videos and your positive attitude. 😍😍 Soooo helpful! I had no idea there were even things called acoustic blankets! So cool!

Great idea. We're going to try this, especially since we don't have the space for anything permanent.

Blanket booth, I like this!

I don't think the size calculator link works anymore. Has it been removed?

Dude you don’t even wanna see the janky ass set up I have. I nailed an acoustic blanket to the ceiling/wall in a semi circle. It’s currently in danger of falling off 😂 TY for the video.

Have used something like this for a few years now....easy to tear down / transport if needed. My major tip, do NOT use moving blankets if you can. Their tight weave bounces a LOT of high mid / treble back at ya. Those Producers Choice blankets is the way to go IMHO. The BIG difference between mine & this one is mine IS a booth, 4'x4' with a height of 6.5". This means by blankets are double over for even more isolation.

Signed up for the blueprints and the calculator, all I got was a virtual highfive.

Thank you so much for this amazing video! I have an office I record in, where my walls are lined with sponge brinks and on the other side, nothing but books! They work great, but my mic is so good, it pics up on all the chatter all the way in my living room- and that’s with Noise Gate! So, thanks to your video, I am boing to make a sort of crescent booth with roof, so I can be near my desk station and record, cutting out all the extra chatter that I was picking up with my cleaning blankets and crescent booth! You rock!

Interesting! I was prepared to be a bit dismissive, but really good points were brought up. Plus, I'll admit I hadn't thought of using PVC pipes and acoustic blankets in such a way. That's a modular setup you could use for many applications! Just use 2 planes for the back of a drum kit. Use the full set for bass. Use parts for various guitars. Quite genius, really! My only addition would be, if you have no budget and must use a closet, don't sing into the closet, but rather out of it. Then use of the reflection filter(which I would only, but have yet to, and probably won't spend money on used) in front and you have a workable cheap setup. Use eq to accommodate for resonant frequencies in the room. Cheers!

Great tutorial! I took notes! Ready to rock and record...thank you Dylan!

Is there a dB test outside the box?

Design #1 wasn’t even a design lol

Could use the frame of my growtent to put the acoustic blankets on...space is an issue and just harvested so cool LOL

How about sewing the blankets together and then suspending them from 4 hooks in ceiling. You could strengthen the top one with cardboard or something to stop it folding up on you. I dont have the space for a large structure so reckon it would work for me 😊

You don’t have to worry about outside noise these days. The Waves Clarity plug in uses AI to isolate the sound of the voice. Clarity reverb will eliminate reverb. Nothing will fix bad tinny bad acoustics due to bad frequency distribution

Cool idea, I´ll try it out! thanks for the advice

But would this keep the sound from inside the booth out? If you live in an apartment for instance

What about making a blanket booth inside the walls of a closet. And, what do you do for ventilation?

I've purchased the materials and am looking forward to my construction. I have one suggestion. The things you refer to as "U" joints are actually "L" joints. I wrote down U-joints but figured it out when I got to Home Depot. Thanks for the great guidance!

Hello! Thank you for the clear breakdown!!! Im not sure I'm seeing the vocal booth blueprints and size calculator in the link you provided. Any assistance with that?

1000 for a professional vocal booth? I’ll take it. Vocal booths are at least 2500 used from what I’ve seen.

I have a four post canopy bed. Matress on the bottom. Add blankets. :D

Awesome,gonna build this but with moving blankets as the accoustic foam is too expensive

hey!!! super cool video, which blanket do u use exactly cause there are so many choice in the site.

Okay, please for the love of god make a video of you putting this together at a human pace. The blueprint is not very helpful.

what if my primary concern is not so much getting a professional sound as having some place to sing without the neighbors knockin at my door? are the blankies gonna be as good at soundproofing as the mattress fort or other stuff?

Thanks a lot for this video Dylan! I went to the vocal booth to go website, I noticed there were a lot of options for blankets. Curious which one you used and would recommend? Thanks a lot!

Soundproofing blankets are the best

Thank you so much for putting together this free tutorial, it was a great help and the calculator. Do you have any feedback from people that have booked work with this kind of booth? Thanks for your time.

What’s the best shape for a vocal booth design? I see a lot of stating square is the least wise of the choices but not much stating what shape is optimum and why? I’d greatly appreciate if anyone could help me understand.

Get RID of THE FOAM. Use acoustic ceiling Panels instead. If you want cover the panels with your foam. :-)

Hei. Do you have any idea where i can get those acoustic blankets? Does it work with like moving blankets from amazon?

Nice VIdeo! I know it's a 4 years old video, but I didn't find the Blueprints and size calculator in the link in the description... Could you please make it available again?

THIS WAS AN AWESOME VIDEO THAT'S SURE TO SAVE ME MEGABUCKS! For some reason, when I attempt to download the size calculator using the link above, it sends me back to the PDF download page. Is it possible for you to send that calculator, along with the blueprints for the booth #4?( I only have the booth #4 PDF, and not the actual blueprints) Can you send that also? Thanks!

Blanket tents suck up your highs and leave only the lows. They sound muffled. I made a tent just like this. In a small booth you need 6 to 8” of absorption to suck up the low frequencies. Most voice actors who make there own booths don’t realize this sound is not acceptable

I have a question,I hope you could help me, I had to change the sizes so the vocal booth could fit in my room... 31" width x 38" length x 80" height are the sizes I used, you think this will affect my voice recording from a good way or a bad way?

Hey, thank you very much for the information and guide! I'm thinking on building a vocal booth myself and it's super helpful! However I'm accessing your link for the blueprints and size calculator, but the files I downloaded don't have those files. Can you please advise on how I can find them? Thanks again!

I really wonder about good substitutes for the blankets mentioned in the video. Does any have an idea? Will “moving blankets” really work for professional home recordings???

Thanks dude! Great help. Much appreciated.

I have built a PVC pipe vocal booth with the Producer's Choice Blankets. Works like a charm!

The blueprint is confusing. Where do you put pipe I? According to the blueprint thee should be 5 pipe I's(that are the longest) but on the blueprint, pipe I's are short than almost all of the pipes

I downloaded the bundle but couldn't find the plans for the booth.

It’s kind of hard to evaluate the sound with the music playing in the background

thank you for sharing the experience..

Does this booth help with not annoying the neighbors?

Love the video . . . thanks ! Now, where do i buy the curtains from please ?

I'm confused. At 11:40 you said, "in the first example her vocals were dry and clear" (She was in the untreated room). At 11:47, "In the 2nd one there's a full room reverb surrounding it that you can hear in the background". Don't you have this backwards? The first one has the full room reverb?

Is this no longer available, when I download I get a bunch of checklist but nothing on the vocal booth build?

Thanks mate, looks quite ace!! I'm thinking of building one as I moved into a new flat and wanna practice my singing (which is still very beginner's stage, so I don't want to disturb my neighbours and have a rough time letting go into practice). Will it block noise from coming out significantly? Like is it worth building this as a little practice room? Would appreciate your feedback

thanks for the video. i stumbled upon it via isovox videos. that is a great idea for some but like many including me we have to use a closet and most like me can retrofit it to be empty and can treat it for budget vocal recording. for years me and so many others have put memory foam in our closets and if we have tile floors put a heavy mat on the floor but there is something a lot of people dont do before recording and thats set your mic and closet with eq and compression gate etc. and i watch a lot of videos like this one and never hear anyone speak on using outboard gear to help their recording in realistic home studio environments. i use art voice channel to set my mic and room and it helps a lot. so if someone only has a closet and cant set the diy booth up how could they get better results?

Finding this video today, 5/2022. Can't find the blueprints and sizing calculator. Could you repost that link?

Great video! I'd love to download the blueprints to make my own booth, but it seems the link is now to recording info. Can you direct me to the blueprints to build a booth? Thank you!

I love it !

Thank you for your video! I was wondering... How is it not dark in your booth? Where is the light coming from that lights up your booth?

I'm trying to download Blueprint. It does not appear when clicking and downloading all links. Am I missing something/not doing something correctly?

I know this video was posted 5 years ago, but I hope that you will reply. I cannot locate the size calculator in the cheat sheet bundle and I don't see it located anywhere in the description. Can you help? Thanks!

when you dont have a closet door and are broke but want to audition for voice acting

just found this...would this be good for a practice space in an apartment, to keep from annoying the neighbors, or at least cut down the noise? I am a trumpet player by the way.

Very helpful. Thank u.

OK. So I followed this video to the letter and here's a few issues I ran across 1. Your link to the size calculator doesn't work. It sends you to some random site about quitting your day job and becoming a musician. Luckily it's not so hard to figure out on your own 2. You said you need 14 Tee joints when in fact you need at least 15 as I couldn't complete the third pole at the top. I'd argue the true figure is about 20 as I think I'm going to need to complete the square of the bottom and reinforce this a bit 3. This thing if f****** flimsy. Im using 21.5mm poles as its the cheapest available with the same size joints. Some of the poles keep popping out of the joints so I'm sure I'm gonna need glue or duct tape. Also what weight were the curtains you used as this is bending like Korra 4. Havent tried it but I think an electric jigsaw would work better that hand cutting it as its very hard to cut it straight 5. My local B&Q wouldn't cut these for me so I had to do this in the car park with the saw I purchased. Not a criticism to you. Just bloody mad they wouldn't help me

What about treatment in a closet?

I could not find the pvc calculator, can you put a link?

What if you were to use acoustic blankets with shower hangers and tension rods in the closet? Would that nullify the 'tiny room sound' issue?

Nice video content 👌

I cant find the size calculator in the zip file. Where is it?

What and where is the size calculator?

I'm hoping to use your size calculator but I can't seem to get it to work. I get stuck on the survey, unable to submit. Is it down or do I have a problem on my side??

Very helpful

Curious if it’s possible to expand this design to make it more sound isolating? Eg if you just tripled the amount of blankets presumably that would help? And maybe put something in between each layer of blankets? And then something on the floor too? Any suggestions to use the same design but increase the sound isolation? I’m moving into a unit and going to be running a studio out of there but it’s noisy so I need the most sound protection possible on a budget. I’m not bothered about total sound isolation but as much as I can get without going over say $1000

Thanks for the help !

Thanks sir!

I clicked on the link, why is it take me to a video instead of the blueprint?

I am stuck at the moment because I've been doing my vocal practice in my apartment, and due to COVID, my neighbour is now working from home. The issue with me "disturbing" her is escalating. I've tried to negotiate practicing at the end of her work day, when she walks her dog, but today, she hadn't left yet, and in a passive aggressive way, she turned her radio way up, right underneath me (kitchens) I don't know what to do. Even this set up is too much, and too expensive!

Very helpful!

i didnt get the blueprint nor the calculator... can someone pls help me ?

where can you buy these acoustic blankets in the philippines?

I just looked up the blankets on the website you mentioned and the cheapest option is $214 each...

You can go even cheaper with a ply wood frame and some material (I used old jeans) with glue for hinges. The bonus to using material hinges is that if you space them out enough you can fold the whole booth up.

Mattresses are too dense. The lower frequencies are not absorbed and bounce back. You need porous material with air pockets like rock wool.

My closet is about the same size as that vocal booth... could I just layer the walls and roof with blankets and get the same effect?

What about dampening the sound. I sing Metal and have some annoying issues with the neighbours.. Will mattresses do the trick?

Link just tries to sign me up for a Music Masterclass! No mention of Vocal Booth plans/size calculators anywhere. :(

Link is not working anymore but you can find the blueprints and the calculator by google