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Absorption Baffles to Create Isolation Booths and Drum Cages

Studio and stage sound isolation is very important in order to get the best audio quality of an audio instrument. Generating the best audio quality for recording studio or concert performance is very important. The use of absorption baffles and sound shield to produce perfect acoustic as well as audio reception is a must. The baffles are 1.5 inches thick compressed fiberglass encased in the trunk cloth with some sizes available to manage and control the audio reflection, provide audio isolation and also can be used to reduce reverb effect inside a room.

Isolation booths can be the option to provide audio isolation for several application and purposes. It also can provide audio insulation for recording studio, sound proof booth or room or providing quiet and comfortable working station. The use audio shield to isolate certain instrument especially loud ones like percussion can prevent the mixed audio input to the microphones, the audio shield can provide clear audio input for best audio management to create the best audio output. The baffles also can be used to create portable percussion enclosure like drum cages to prevent mixed audio with the closely located instruments due to the loud audio output can be created from a percussion instrument like drums.

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Vocal Recording Techniques

Use the following techniques when recording vocals in your home studio.

Invest in good microphone:

In the long run, it will be worth it to invest a little money into a nice condenser microphone. There is no better way to capture clear, high quality vocals than using a high quality microphone! Generally, the cost of a good microphone starts at around $90 and goes up.

Pop Filter:

Having a pop filter is very important when capturing a great vocal performance. A pop filter is basically a screen that filters out all of the heavy “P”, “H”, and breathing sounds that otherwise distort the recording. Pop filters are pretty cheap. You can get a decent one for around $20. If you don’t have the money or time to get a pop filter before your next recording, you can make a homemade pop filter. Simply wear a handkerchief that covers your mouth. You don’t want it so thick and tight that it muffles your voice and effects how you talk, but just enough so it catches those unwanted pops and cracks.

Find Your Distance:

Every microphone is different. To get the best recording out of your microphone, be sure to play around and test it out for awhile before committing to a final recording. Some microphones are very sensitive whereas others require you to be very close to the mic. Find a comfortable distance from your microphone that gives a good volume level of recording, clear vocals, and no pops or distortion. Use this distance as your marking point every time you record so all of your tracks will have equal vocal quality!

Location:

When recording, you don’t want to be in a huge room or a room with background noise. When recording at home, or just not in a studio, the most commonly used type of room to record in is a smaller, quiet, and closed room. This assures that there is no background noise or extra feedback from the surroundings.

Overdubbing, Ad-Libs, and Simple Effects:

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The Features That I Liked About The Flip Camcorder

The Flip camcorder model called the Flip Mino HD video camera isn’t anything I expected it to be. As a matter of fact a friend of mine gave it to me for a random reason. He said its great in video recording but I really can’t tell by the way he glanced at me. I’m really not into video recording, I am more into photography. But on one of my travels, this time to Beijing, I decided to take some footage using the Flip camcorder he gave me.

Surprisingly it wasn’t what I expected from the Flip Mino HD video camera- in fact it was way beyond my expectations. Below are the things that I found great about this camcorder:

The Size

The first impression I had in mind is that this video camera is nothing but a fancy gadget, one of those disposable ones you buy in the market. But regardless of that it was light, handy and very small (smaller than my coke in can) and for the size it’s really great.

The accessibility

I do bring my laptop with me anywhere I go since I do take a lot of photos and save it to my PC. The cool part of the Flip camcorder is that it needs no fancy cables for charging and you need not any memory to save it because I can easily hook it up with my laptop and transfer files.

The Features and Tripod features

It was only later that I learned that the Flip Mino HD video camera can be placed on a tripod. I did read a couple of reviews about of it online but sadly I was back from my Beijing trip by the time I knew about it.

The navigation was easy to use. You can see all of the tools in one area only. There is a red button in the center for recording, a pause button in the upper left side and delete button on the upper right side, it also have a fast forward and rewind button situated right above and below the red button.

Overall Verdict

To me it’s quite slick and a no brainer for me. Although I would love some added features with the Flip camcorder, but for what it has to offer I rate it 5 stars. I just had my Ultra version of this and it just doubled my expectations. Great Flips!

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