I think we can all agree that we need more Kitchen-Aiden in our lives😄

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Kitchen Aiden is generally well fed and in good spirits!!

I listened to your video at 1.5x speed and could still understand you perfectly, and I'm not even a native speaker. That's a testament to how articulate you are. 👍

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Very accurate assessment of these gadgets' strengths and weaknesses! I actually built myself a couple of DIY portable sound panels out of Ikea frames and Walmart quilts to solve treatment issues for the space directly behind me and, while not perfect, combined with a good shield, manage to do pretty well at rejecting room sound.

The worst thing about it is comb filtering. It maybe stops the voice from going through, but a significant amount is reflected back into the microphone, and this is far more problematic than ugly room reverberation.

Great video! Thank you for this!

This was an excellent review! Thanks.

Thanks for making this video. I bought one and I thought it made things horrible. I have a lot of treatment in the room and that thing made it so boxy I couldn't use it. I saved the foam and chucked the rest LOL

I bought one for the blue yeti as I live in New york in an untreated space 3 years ago was it the most effective thing no but it was definitely better than what I was working with

I have a heavy duty one and I also have the eyeball it works great just have to have shielding behind me

Lmfaooo that intro with the fridge noise was so funny. Too real 😂

@DarkCornerStudios

4 ай бұрын

It's becoming one of my favorite jokes

this was a really cool video. I'm curious what your take on isolation shields for a loud, live-band stage situation. Are there any commonsense means to mitigate cymbals, snare hits etc where the pros outweigh the cons? For context, I'm running wind instruments (sax and clarinet) into effects like reverb and delay. My set up surprisingly works in most situations through some careful gain staging but occasionally, I find myself dreaming of isolation shields either bought or homemade.

I’ve been using the Aston Halo fora while it does nothing to prevent external noise so I still have to soundproof part of my studio. It does cut out so much reflection sound that to me it’s totally worth it.

@AboriginalManswife

5 ай бұрын

Wrd

These are meant for you to be able to do minimal treating of a small corner of your room. In practice, these screens should be facing into the room from a corner, or if you're in a bedroom, from the closet with the clothes on hangers behind you, and either bass traps or the makeshift solution of shoe boxes or rubbermade bins/drawers filled with spare cables or clutter on the floor up against the wall. They still see best use case with some minimal room treatment, or at least a carpeted room with furniture in it.

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

A few issues. Corners aren't horrible...but I would probably prefer something on the wall behind me. Any bare wall behind will add reflections. Also...bass traps are wildly unnecessary for voice. Your voice does not have the power nor frequency range to ever need bass traps.

@needsLITHIUM

11 ай бұрын

@@DarkCornerStudios TBF I was thinking that the corner would be treated. I probably should have been more clear on that. Also, I assume that the same space would be used for mixing or general playback later, for people on a budget, hence the bass traps. Also, I do metal, so growls can get pretty low pitched, and loud.

@mcgritty8842

4 ай бұрын

@@needsLITHIUMdid you say to set up a corner to mix in? Am I losing it???? 😂

@needsLITHIUM

4 ай бұрын

@@mcgritty8842 no. I said put the mic in the corner. Monitor speakers should go along a flat wall or in soffits, roughly in the middle, or at least 3 to 6 feet away from a corner, depending on speaker output and size. I think you're losing it. "Same space" because I'm assuming the treated corner and your desk would be in the same room.

I like reverb it’s ok I just add it synthetically later so nobody is hurt but yeah those thingies seem silly if not using fig8 or Omni polar pattern.

To be honest when I bought mine I worked out that for myself and got good results for my home studio

Your studio sounds great!

@DarkCornerStudios

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I put fiberglass insulation on my face and cut out a mouth hole and then the reflections off the mic body won’t rereflect off my big forehead into to mickropfon

I have used these shields with 8-pattern mics on instruments and vocals. Works great to get a more cardioid-like room rejection from the back. Granted, in normal studio environment, it shouldn't matter that much. But it did help in that particular situation.

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Yeah...they definitely have a purpose!!

Definitely better than setting up under a quilt though. I did an audition that way once!

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Me too...did a few under the covers in hotels. That sounds dirty

@sinocelt

11 ай бұрын

Better than doing it under a kilt. Especially if someone is wearing it at the time.

@davidsillars3181

11 ай бұрын

@@sinocelt I think The Goon Show was always recorded under the kilts of a regiment of the Gordon Highlanders, hence the unique acoustics. I may be wrong. 😂

@sinocelt

11 ай бұрын

@@davidsillars3181 I hope you are... for everyone involved! 🤣

I'd be curious to hear something like this with a multi-pattern mic set to figure 8 Figure 8 is the tightest polar pattern on those types of mics, so if you could effectively block some sounds coming to the rear of the microphone you could conceivably wind up with lower room noise overall than with a cardioid mic.

@chrisw5742

11 ай бұрын

And believe it or not an omni mic sounds awesome for recording even with room speakers on and no headphones.... kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqGcy81yidPKd9o.html

Is blanket is a best choice so?

I would love to have heard the example you spoke of: treated back wall combined iso-box.

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

I have a video on the Isovox!

@MatthewHaines

11 ай бұрын

@@DarkCornerStudios I’ll check it out!

I use a smaller version of this when recording my amp.

I was looking at some options for managing other voices in close proximity leaking into other microphones. Would something like this be worth trying?

How abt the eyeball ard the mic and a mic shield right behind you

Perfect assessment. Thanks for doing this, Aiden. As a VO educator, I'll speak for why you don't see pro VO people use this kind of setup: _Try reading copy when using one..._

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Amen to that!

A possible answer is to put 2 of them together, so that it surrounds you more(?). Also, NO PLACE to put copy (tablet or hard copy) if you are a VO guy.

I scrolled through your videos looking for recommendations or reviews of sound treatments on your walls. There are a lot of squares on Amazon running about $1 to $2 per square foot. Do you have any opinions or advice about what kind of economical wall treatments are recommended?

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Yeah...those Amazon squares aren't brutally bad...though I did a video a few years back for making acoustic panels. I still use them to this day

@DanAshleyChicago

11 ай бұрын

​@@DarkCornerStudiosI will look again for your video on making acoustic panels. I could not find it the first time I looked.

@DanAshleyChicago

11 ай бұрын

@DarkCornerStudios Found it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eqB-1reLmM-opps.html

is an isolation shield useful if you game in the same room as another person and want to block their voice from getting in your mic?

Why do I feel attacked using my sE Reflex in my kitchen studio.

What about if the shield is behind you?

A was expecting an eyeball testing but didnt find it in video (

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

No real difference

Thanks for sharing this! How much is the sound coming from the ceiling impacting the vocals?

@DarkCornerStudios

3 ай бұрын

Basically the same as a wall. The direction doesn't really matter...just the material Ceiling treatment or drop acoustic ceilings are best

@annavmusic6309

3 ай бұрын

@@DarkCornerStudios thanks!

From my experience recording with my closet behind me (adjacent to the microphone) renders better results than recording vocals into my closet, having my closet directly behind the microphone. Seems a bit unconventional for some reason but yields much better results.

Great video, indeed. What if I use one extra shield behind close behind me? Thanks

@DarkCornerStudios

10 ай бұрын

Better off just treating directly behind you with a curtain or something... Probably much cheaper as well

@Sumbibebe

10 ай бұрын

@@DarkCornerStudios got it, will do. Thank you👍🏾

is this thing good if im trying to do voice overs in my apartment and dont want my neighbor to hear me at my desk lol

The problem with all of these products is they're too small to truly contain your voice and keep it from bouncing around the room. The ONLY product that really works is the RealTraps Portable Vocal Booth (PVB). At $300 it's a little more expensive than the cheap products, but it works very well and doesn't require more absorption behind you.

@Hectagonist

5 ай бұрын

I have a bunch of RealTraps panels in my studio and can attest they're super high quality and built to last. Haven't tried the PVB though.

Was Rode being creative when they named the NT-1? Can we call it the Rodent 1?😅

The Aston Halo is over $400 and you don't even have room to put your script in there to read it!

@DarkCornerStudios

16 күн бұрын

Reflection filters are different than this. I did a whole video on them...worth a watch. It's called "Do You Actually Need A Mic Isolation Shield"

@Shannon_Robbie

15 күн бұрын

@@DarkCornerStudios Well, yes that's the video I'm commenting on. I'm just learning so I didn't realize that the Halo was a reflector filter and the isolation shield was different. Audio recording is a steep learning curve!

Just cover the back side of the mic with tape to avoid reflection.😅

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Lol

@chrisw5742

11 ай бұрын

On a cardioid dynamic you can tape the side ports off then you have an omni mic.

Why not simply record through Zoom? It has wonderful filtering of outside noises.

snake oil, i will pass

Your better off putting it behind your head, then sing into the mic cause any sound that comes at you will adsorb back into the foam and not into the mic !

so not pointless but useless . got you lol

@DarkCornerStudios

11 ай бұрын

Perhaps better said... It's VERY situational

Wouldn't the worst case scenario be the bathroom?

@moleedaboi

2 ай бұрын

Mostly, yeah

@moleedaboi

2 ай бұрын

An empty garage is worse imo.

The metal worries me

So the solution is to mount these right behind your head, maybe on your shoulders. Hmm...

You don't look like the snake oil guy

This is not eyeball

Just buy some sound proof blankets and thank me later.

Yes, if you have Forrest Gump intelligence, like the user of the product in the video, it wont help. If on the other hand you can manage the IQ to not put in the open side facing your whole kitchen plus a window, and instead, e.g. you have the open side close to and facing a wall with sound absorber/diffuser on it, then in would help a lot.

Sellers corner.