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If I would make a soundproof box I'd try to pad its floor with something in order to make it higher. But I'm not making one now, so I'll stick with the books for a while and see how it goes

Hi Koz. Thank you for your thoughful answer.

Raising the microphone with books seems like a neat and useful trick.
I don't think I could fit pipes or wooden bars in my room very well. Maybe a DIY soundproof box would work? I could even try to give it a higher floor so that I wouldn't need the books.

My greatest issue right now is that my bass sounds too boomy and it seems to reverberate ... There's not much can be done in post-production to reduce the reverberation of the room. One solution is to use heavy-curtain / blanket / rug to block your voice bouncing off the walls getting to the microp...

My greatest issue right now is that my bass sounds too boomy and it seems to reverberate ... There's not much can be done in post-production to reduce the reverberation of the room. One solution is to use heavy-curtain / blanket / rug to block your voice bouncing off the walls getting to the microp...

Hello. I have just started recording videos for the first time in my life, mainly for educational purposes. I am making simple home-made videos using a Shure MV5 microphone that sits in front of me in my desktop, which is the best I could afford. My greatest issue right now is that my bass sounds to...