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Imperative Audio Portable Vocal Booth – Expert Test

Imperative Audio Portable Vocal Booth - Expert Test

Back in 2016, James Ivey reviewed the Isovox, a large, yet somehow small vocal booth replacement that you fit your head into. If you don’t believe us, check out the review. Now in 2021, the team at Studiospares bring us the Imperative Audio PVB, the Portable Vocal Booth. In this video, James is once again on the case to see and hear if the PVB is the answer to your home vocal production worries.

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  1. Great video production James! My home "built-in" vocal booth has the same configuration. The showcase of the sound deadening quality you displayed
    with this portable unit is impressive. Controlling the environment is so darn important for predictable recording session results

  2. Hi James. Hope you’re doing well. I saw this product 2 weeks ago and instantly felt a connection with it. Tonight I see your video 🙂 a question: I’m an opera singer recording at home in a not so amazing living room. I struggle with the reflections. Would you think that for my kind of music which is of course classical this product would be an absolutely must have! I can’t treat my living room because of one large window on one side and the walls around that have living room stuff on it. The room is very acoustic 🙂 I’ve build something myself using some blankets but when I sing a little more powerful especially the higher notes there is a distortion or ringing frequencies in the recording. Also it’s like the voice sounds diminished on the high notes probably because the sound is projected into the room and comes back into the mic. I think the blankets are not really doing anything. It drives me crazy and hope this product may help to get finally good sounding classics operatic vocals as far as that is possible of course. Also, the booth does look nice compared to the big pvc booth I build myself 🙂 hope to hear from you

  3. I think to my ears having that mic pointed into the booth sounded better. It didn’t sound as muddy as it did from inside, and I actually think it helped reject more noise. Interesting, it’s something you hear a lot of sound techs preach about containing noise from in front of the mic. But a lot of “portable vocal booths” were still made to catch noise from behind the mic, and from what I could hear, the experts are very much correct. I imagine with good floor absorption and some bass traps in the room, this could make for a nice unconventional vocal booth in any studio.

  4. I see this pvb as the only option in my room, the height is only 198cm vom bottom to the ceiling, everything I could build for my self wouldn't fit no Mather how I plan or how I would want to work arround… The main thing I'm asking myself is what are the 3 layers of acoustic material that they used to build the pvb. I must know how deep it goes cuz the most problems in my room I got arround 160hz

  5. I can’t believe the back isn’t closed 🤷🏼‍♂️ That makes it useless for pro voiceover. Rather have the Isovox2 if you are on a budget.

  6. I have to agree with @beauobrien 1951. The mic pointed into the booth sounded so much better! WOW! I wonder if combining something like an Aston Halo behind the mic that is pointed into the PVB would sound even better!

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