How to Reduce Echo in a Bedroom Recording Space
Even an expensive microphone sounds amateur in an untreated, echoey room. Flutter echo, boxy reflections and HVAC hum all end up in your recording.
Professional acoustic treatment is expensive. A solo creator can get most of the benefit from a bedroom with things already in the house.
4 budget acoustic treatment hacks
1. Soften hard surfaces with blankets and rugs
Sound bounces off hard, flat surfaces like wooden floors and drywall. Lay down a thick rug, and hang heavy blankets or winter coats on the walls near your microphone to absorb mid and high frequency reflections.
2. Record in the closet
For audio-only or voiceover work, record inside your closet. The clothes act as sound-absorbing panels.
3. Build a desk shield
Make a U-shaped shield from high-density foam, or from thick cardboard lined with towels, to keep typing noise and desk reflections out of your microphone.
4. Clean up what is left in software
Some noise survives the room. VocalScroll saves your take as recorded and applies the Voice enhancer when you play or export it:
- Voice cleanup removes steady noise such as fans and hiss, lowers room noise between phrases with a gate, and shortens echo.
- Highpass filter cuts air conditioning rumble. Its corner is 55 to 100 Hz, depending on the preset.
- Hum notch removes 60 Hz electrical hum. The notch is fixed at 60 Hz, so it will not match 50 Hz mains.
Clear is the strongest preset for noisy or echoey rooms. Original skips all of it.