Should You Buy A Whisper Room Vocal Booth?

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[@BensImaginaryBand]

Hey. Good info overall. I've owned a Whisper Room for the past 3 years so I can give some first hand experience with it. One of the main benefits that's not really highlighted too well in the video is the "portable" nature of the booth. It can be disassembled and reassembled with relative ease in a way that I think would increase the labour time quite a bit to add to a DIY build. Another thing is that there is a second hand market for these booths. I bought mine from a studio in Toronto that was upgrading their space. Spent closer to 3k on it. I ended up moving from Toronto to Vancouver and bringing the booth with me so the portability aspect turned out well in my case. I've been living in apartments and the Whisper Room allows me to practice/record guitar and vocals any time of day/night without worrying about neighbours. So I'm happy I got it in the end. Long term, I'm hoping to build my own studio so these videos have been a great resource planning for that. P.S. You got the ventilation direction backwards: it exhausts out the fan.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Thanks for the first hand insight. I didn’t know about the secondhand market and that makes a lot more sense. Most people should go this route in rentals and if they only need a small space soundproofed. Yeah the ventilation is not explained well on the website. Thanks for the correction.

[@yaydriana]

@@soundproofyourstudiodoes your course only work for house owners? Can your DIY course apply to building renter friendly booths that can be moved to different location every few years?

[@soundproofyourstudio]

@@yaydriana I would buy a whisper room if it is a rental.

[@cameronfoord1777]

Thank you for sharing your experience. The movability factor is important for us city dwellers. I hadn't considered second hand!

[@mrkinla]

Thanks so much. Your post answered my question about portability the WR. I intend on selling my home over the coming year to move to a new city.

[@mrkinla]

I like the idea of designing and building my own custom booth to fit an existing oddly shaped closet. Not a professional yet but volume reduction will be VERY important because of recurrent air traffic nearby. My goal is to professionally read audiobooks and create broadcasting demos. Thank you very much.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Awesome project. Glad I could help

[@yochillsmith]

You literally uploaded this video as I’m looking at vocal booths 😮

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Got that mind meld going on

[@what2118]

I use the entrance sound lock (two doors) as a vocal booth. Mostly I will record vocals in the larger studio but the sound booth will come in handy when recording live for vocal isolation of vocals for possible retakes latter on. I have air in the main studio but I consider the vocalist can open one door of the sound booth/air lock between songs for air.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Yup I once recorded in a studio with a six piece band. They stuck us in every air lock they had. When isolation is needed you will always sacrifice some on acoustics.

[@what2118]

@@soundproofyourstudio Thanks for the reply. I enjoy watching your show. 🙂

[@s.l.darkling]

Nice vid. Bottom line: The pre builds are expensive and don't block as much noise as a DIY booth could. I made a vocal booth (that blocks out loud road noise that my home doesn't block) for about 1.5k. If you want to review the quality I get from that booth all my videos are with that booth--but that's not what this is about. I just want anyone who finds the roughly DIY 4.5k price point for out of reach to know the bar is lower than that still.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Thanks for sharing.

[@charlescaputo778]

Just tell us how much the room decreases the db. Damn!

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Ouch! It’s more complicated than that.

[@selfishbeats]

if you have no time to watch the video you have no time to assemble a booth, let alone build one.

[@fairlanephantom]

I built my double wall booth for less than $2k and with plenty of extra materials, so it really comes out a little less and no particularly fancy tools needed. The quality of the booth came out much better than the pre-fab booths that still need more tweaking to get right for your environment. So I'd say DIY is better unless you don't have space outside to cut the materials down. Their prices for accessories alone will kill you.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

I agree

[@Paulg51-73]

Yeh horribly overpriced. I'm closing off one of the corners of my room, so that 's two comcrete walls i don't need to worry about. I was thinking MDF of plasterbnoard plus abortion foam on all the surfaces with carpet on the floor. ventilation however is going to be a problem inside the are as my computer desk will be inside, i can't push the record button on cubase and be standing in a seperate booth haha

[@fairlanephantom]

@@Paulg51-73 Cool. Good luck with the build. Apparently 6 x 7 is closer to an ideal size than the average 4 x 4 booth if you can spare the space. 3/4 MDF is still fairly cheap. For my connections I have a mix of cables and Bluetooth accessories. My monitor and interface are connected through cables. Could have done wireless for the monitor, but I didn't want to sort through possible latency issues. But my mouse and keyboard are wireless with the computer outside the booth and haven't had any issues.

[@Paulg51-73]

@@fairlanephantom Sorry about the terrible typos I made haha just read it back. Should make a few chuckle I suppose!

[@fairlanephantom]

@@Paulg51-73 So sweat. I actually started typing my responses in Notes on my phone to avoid mistakes or hitting send halfway through.

[@jymiv7640]

Any chance you can share a complete list of materials you bought to build yours? I have a contractor thats gonna make one for me but he’s stalling on giving me a list on materials & on a price to build it.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

I didn’t build a vocal booth, but I might make a video on how I would build one.

[@seesquadrecords]

Thanks! I definitely have one to sell 😎

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Right on!

[@Ali-Cheff]

I love these videos. So helpful. I currently live in a small apt so I use a used whisperroom. It has worked well, however I am trying to build a studio and put a portable booth inside to account for potential bicoastal living. Don't have a crazy budget just career :-) I was wondering if you had any tips or ideas for building a studio in a trailer set up, like a tiny house. Or do you think building out of a prefab shed adding 4x drywall and following your great tips would be a better choice? While also owning a portable booth that travels to other living locations. Thank you for your videos these have been great as I am figuring out the next steps.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Both are cool ideas, but the floor will always be the hardest part. I always prefer a concrete slab over a wood deck floor.

[@Ali-Cheff]

Yea I was thinking about Hempcrete actually. Thanks as always ! Looking forward to getting into this project and thanks for all the info it jumps me further in my research! @@soundproofyourstudio

[@frederf69]

well done & thanks for this ✌🥁👍

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Thank you too!

[@Gatrax]

If I wanted to sound proof my bedroom to prevent, for example, my roommate who lives across the hall or in an adjacent room from being disturbed while I stream and shout. What would you recommend and do you have a guide on that

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Oh man, that is a loaded question. Keep doing your research and you will find a way.

[@icecreaman2010]

Is there any resources in Arizona that could build me a 4x4 doubled wall vocal booth?

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Not sure

[@RayoBeatz]

why don't people just demo the thing? i don't want to see numbers i want to hear it. i want to hear someone singing inside it actually i want to not hear them if at all which would mean its a good product. i don't want to go by what a piece of paper says. i can't find any videos demoing this thing.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Good point

[@DjBydLo]

Amazing channel, that vocal booths are an scam... i mean, you are going to have a very boxy sounding room in the low frequencies, probably for recording a female vocalist it aint that problematic, but for recording a male vocal is possible to mess with the low frequency problems very easily. I guess that for acoustic you need space, there is not still a way to make it anechoic in such a small place.

[@soundproofyourstudio]

Yeah it’s such a bummer that acoustics need space. It’s so expensive