Reddit reviews Pyle Recording Shield Box-Microphone Foam Booth Cube, Sound Dampening Filter-Audio Acoustic Noise Isolator Platform w/Wedgie Padding, Studio, Podcast, Vocal Use PSIB27

Personally, I record my vocals using my headphones built in microphone and then process with Neutron. You'd think it'd sound terrible but heres what you do. You set up your mic, you put on the headphones, you set the audio input to be very low, you put a thick blanket over you and your laptop. The blanket helps stop reflection and keeps out quite a bit of ambient noise. Now youre not going to get a perfect recording doing this but I've never had anybody ever tell me that my vocals sounded poor. You'll get a good enough recording where processing will make it sound pretty great tbh.

heres a sample of my vocals: https://soundcloud.com/qpeakmusic/unmastered-vocal-snippet

or you could buy a microphone, an interface, and one of those cheap portable vocal booths: https://www.amazon.com/Pyle-PSIB27-Recording-Soundproofing-Isolation/dp/B0117DB5TI/ref=sr_1_4?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1524684120&sr=1-4&keywords=portable+recording+booth

I actually bought the cheaper box looking one https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Isolation-Recording-Shield-Box/dp/B0117DB5TI/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?keywords=sound+proof+box+for+recording&qid=1566233341&s=gateway&sprefix=sound+proof+box&sr=8-5 and put it in my closet - so far so good, gets the job done for me.

Here you go!

I'm the first to recommend a small mixer or audio interface and dynamic cardioid microphones for your setup, but let's save that recommendation for later.

You are going to have an incredibly difficult time eliminating cross talk and attempting to record on two tracks with your setup. The reason for the crosstalk issue is that the Blue Yeti is a condenser microphone which means the diaphragm which captures the sound is powered and very sensitive. This is actually a great thing given an audio controlled environment such as a sound booth where room echo or reverb and ambient sounds can be controlled. In your average home this is a nightmare and people end up spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars for room treatments when a simple hardware purchase of a dynamic microphone can solve most of those issues without redecoration your recording space. One way to combat this is to make a microphone vocal box. You can DIY a vocal sound box like this one. Or you can spend a few hundred dollars one. You can also just use a pillow fort around your microphones to test it out. This probably won’t eliminate your crosstalk issues but it might help control it some.

The other issue with two USB microphones can be solved as /u/BangsNaughtyBits stated but just beware, these solutions have a tendency to break at inopportune moments.

Now I'm going to return to a hardware solution. If you are recording in the same room I'll often recommend a Zoom H4nPro, a Zoom H5 or a Zoom H6 recorder and two XLR Microphones. I started with the Behringer XM1800s which if you are cash strapped I'd still recommend. However, if you can afford a bit better microphone I'd suggest a Blue enCore 100 or a sE Electronic V7 for each person in the sub $100 range.

Pyle PSIB27 Sound Recording Booth Box, Studio Soundproofing Foam Shield Isolation Filter Cube https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0117DB5TI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_uJe1xb6KTJCTE


Would this work? Decided not to record in closet

> I'm using a Blue Yeti mic ...

Well, there's your problem, or at least a chunk of it. Condenser mics like the Yeti are simply more sensitive and will pick up more ambient sound in common use. You can try getting closer and turning down the gain a bit but the mic is simply designed this way. A dynamic mc like the ATR2100 collects less ambient sound and less echo.

You can build or buy a mic booth like this

https://www.amazon.com/Pyle-PSIB27-Recording-Soundproofing-Isolation/dp/B0117DB5TI/

though I have no personal experience with one.

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I've been with them since my first build and no complaints. In my rookie years I flashed the BIOS from Windows and bricked it. Of course flashback worked and fixed it. At work, I a crappy fan that shorted and blew the regulator on the board (literally put a hole in it) and the system still works - just not the fan header. So forgiving.

I'm not the biggest on the microphone side myself, however case fans are no good either but I think there could be ways to notch out the sound. How silent is your case? Another cool thing you may like are acoustic panels for your wall. They come in different verity to suit your taste. Also you have isolation shields and boxs but it's a little clunky. Cutting the wall reflections help.

Yeah true enough, you'd be surprised the things you hear coming across peoples mic's. Keyboard clack is the least of the worry.