Archive for May, 2014

Carry on with Voice Overs During Your Travels with the Carry-on Vocal Booth

The Carry-on Vocal Booth is mobile, portable and can carry almost all of your recording gear in one bag. It is constructed from washable Producer’s Choice Sound Blankets and does not create a boxy recordings like many other foam-based booths do. No echo. So, carry on with the Carry-on Vocal Booth Pro or the starter kit.

Adil Aliev knew the moving industry inside and out. His company, Moverssupplies.com, supplied all things related to the moving industry including furniture protection blankets and pads.

But something intrigued him with his company that had nothing to do with moving. There were certain customers on a routine basis who were ordering moving blankets not for protecting furniture but for the purpose of sound absorption — like in a home studio. After investigating, he learned that customers, who were mainly voice over actors, musicians and movie producers, used the blankets for acoustic room treatment and soundproofing their home and professional studio spaces. They liked the sound blankets so much they suggested Aliev to redesign the blankets for their specific use.

vocalboothtogo.com logo  With the motivation and inspiration to create a better product for an entirely different audience, Aliev created VocalBoothToGo.com, an online company that concentrates on products for acoustic room treatment and soundproofing. He took suggestions from industry experts in music, voice over and audio production and customized the design of the blankets such as adding thicker filling and options such as grommets for easy hanging. He wanted to do it right and even had the sound blankets and products lab tested for sound absorption.

“Thicker filler is one of the main changes we made in the blankets as well as the stitching,” said Aliev. “Sound blankets are not the same as moving blankets.”

producer's choice sound blankets thick

Producer’s Choice Sound Blankets were created for home studio use in acoustic room treatment and NOT the same as moving blankets.

Today, VocalBoothToGo.com not only offers the blankets, now called Producer’s Choice Sound Blankets, but also other products such as portable and full-size vocal booths and sound booths. The company’s main mission is to provide high quality products in acoustic room treatment and soundproofing for use in the home and professional studio settings — but also be mobile and portable.

The company has caught the eye of celebrity voice over talents and others in the music, movie and production industries.

“I have tried a bunch of vocal booths. Nothing compares to this,” said Dean Wendt, a producer and voice talent. He is the voice of Barney the dinosaur, the children’s television show. “I am VERY picky. Great company and great people. HIGHLY recommend.”

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One of the vocalboothtogo.com’s products, vocal booth on tracks.

We’ve all been there. A business related conference call that not only is boring but comes with annoying echoes, beeps, buzzes and high pitch noises. You develop a strong desire to throw the phone across the room from the poor acoustics but you need to stay on because it is related to your work — your job.

All businesses hold conference calls via phone system or training virtually via Skype. Although we live in a time blessed with modern high-tech devices due to the ability to work virtually or remotely, we still have issues with conference calls that are not clear and downright inaudible.

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Conference calls or Skype meetings can be a nuisance if acoustics are not considered.

The main reason for the horrible noise is not the device but the lack of handling the acoustics properly when using them. Setting your laptop, mic or phone inside an acoustically treated area will help control the echoes or boominess when you speak into it. This is especially important if you are virtually training people via Skype meetings or through a phone system. You, as the main presenter, need to make sure your audience can hear you just as clear as if you were standing in front of them or the entire presentation is worthless.

portable vocal booth for conference calls and skype

Business professionals can benefit from a portable vocal booth like the Carry-on Vocal Booth Pro if they hold Skype meetings or conference calls often. It controls the annoying noise and makes the speaker sound clearer and more professional.

Portable vocal booths are used by voice actors and singers but can also be used by corporations and business professionals during during these type of virtual speaking and meeting engagements. The Carry on Vocal Booth Pro, from VocalBoothToGo.com, is lightweight and can sit on a table or desk and has enough room for a large laptop to sit inside of it. Other features include-

  • Great Acoustic Quality. Carry-On Vocal Booth Pro is constructed with highly sound absorbent material Producer’s Choice Acoustic Blankets. (NRC 0.8 or 80% sound absorption), cutting down reverberation and echo to create a flat audio recordings and audible speaking engagements.
  • Quick set up. The lightweight Carry-On Vocal Booth Pro can be assembled and dissembled in less than 20 seconds. Just unzip and set up — which makes it a truly portable vocal booth and an easy choice for business professionals, speakers and voice-over talents who travel often.
  • Spacious. With usable space at 22€W x 22D base and 20H, the Carry-On Vocal Booth Pro is the most spacious portable booth on the market — capable of fitting most of the components for recording in the bag. Plus, the use of acoustic blanket material instead of acoustic foam makes it possible to create a vocal booth that is small when folded but opens into a large enclosure in its operational state.

We’ve all had issues with hearing someone speak on the phone during a conference call and sounding as if they were in a fish bowl. It may not be a big deal if it is a casual conversation but if you are holding an important meeting such as a Board of Director’s Meeting, or one that people paid for in advance, you have to make sure that you sound clear. Investing in acoustical solutions will help get that peace of mind … and maybe your listener will actually be listening to you.