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IsoCube strange vocal treatment contraption!!!
Just spotted this odd contraption on Studiospares.com. Anyone ever seen or used one of these? Is it a great idea or absolutely terrible? Isn't cheap, £49. What do you reckon it would do to a recording? I'm sceptical but strangely interested!!!
Acoustic Control - for great studio sound!
The AC IsoCube is a highly focussed acoustic treatment that isolates your vocal microphone from the external environment. Ideal for situations where it is impossible or impractical to acoustically treat the recording space. Get a clean vocal recording in any room!
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wow I've never seen this but it looks very interesting...... thanks for posting this have to look into it.
I think it is inexpensive by any mean if it works, which probably will.
Last time I had to shield a mic DIY way it involved:
the voice sitting on the floor
with a mattress behind
a blanket over her head
and a umbrella in front of the mic.
It worked but if 50 quids could save me all that stuff is a secure buy.
And If I only had some voice jobs, and nonetheless a microphone, I would buy it for sure.
Not much info out there. Think it's a new product. I'm sure it could reduce some external noises but I can imagine a vocal bouncing around in there, which is the opposite of what you want or need.
If it is foam it won't bounce anywhere; and anyway much better of any reflections you can get from a non A class studio treated room(which will involve some 3-7 times more expensive mic shield)
This just looks like a more wrap-around version of those C-shaped portable “isolation booth” things you can fit to a stand behind the mic. Like this sort of thing: http://www.seelectronics.com/reflexion-filter-x/ although there’s many similar.
@u0421793 - Yes, but this one looks like the Residents' cube heads. This makes it much more fun to sing to/at.
And reflection screens are in most of the cases aimed to recording studios as a plus to mic clarity while this, in designer mind, is aimed to bedroom producers that want to isolate the voice recordings from the sorroundings, including reflections
Eat lots of eggs, watch Blue Peter, then make your own, just make sure you attach it below the shock mount.
Found another one of these things. This one is £165. So more than 3 times the price of the isoCube. Love to find someone who's used one of these. Or a sound engineer who could steer us in the right direction.
Obviously one of these 'Eyeballs' wouldn't be much use if you're then gonna mix your finished track in an 'untreated' room.
**Professionally record your vocals anytime, anywhere, simply by placing the Eyeball on your microphone.
The Eyeball is acoustical treatment that isolates your microphone from the external environment. Rather than treating your surroundings, the Eyeball is designed to target the two most important variables in the recording process: your voice, and the microphone. By focusing your voice to an isolated microphone, the Eyeball is able to capture the complete spectrum of your voice and reduce much of the external environment, all the while giving you clear and concise vocals free of anycolouration. Creating your ideal recording space is as easy as placing the Eyeball over your favourite microphone.**
I think that this kind of things are good starting points for DIY but maybe the isocube is still too inexpensive also to be matched with a DIY project(not keeping count of time spent)
I'd be curious to hear some results.
Yep. You can roll your own for about $6. My wife built this for me in less than an hour:
Including the drums and guitars?
It's OK to have a little bit of the room in your recording. In that clip about Heroes that's been doing the rounds Tony Visconti says you should always bring the studio home with you
I usually just record in an untreated room, and as long as you sing relatively close to the mic it's OK, you will get a tiny bit of the room in the recording but it's not detrimental IMO, it's just a bit of natural reverb. If you record completely dead you're actually going to have to do more processing to the vocal to get it to sound natural.
Agreed, but some untreated rooms can impose odd frequencies and the other side is that 'natural' may not be the desired quality for a vocal always, so it's nice to have options.
For example vocals for electronic, bass heavy music, where those refs will be heavily effected anyway having a dead take it means that adding fx won't add fx to room too
The other thing that those sorts of things are useful for is off-camera voiceovers or continuity announcements at live situations in venues with noisy environments such as shows.