LyxPro VRI-30 Sound Absorbing and Vocal Booth Recording Microphone Isolation Shield Panel for Home Office and Studio Portable & Foldable Stand Mount Adjustable

I’m making beautiful music with this baby

Amateur here, not a professional, but I do know just enough about audio recording & sound quality to know that this is worth buying.I do occasional voiceovers for work & use Audacity as my DAW. I thought about turning a tiny closet into a recording area with acoustic panels from floor to ceiling, but that's a little out of my price range right now.I record everything while sitting at my desk, so I needed something small & portable that I could attach to my floor model mic stand (Proline MS235) & use with my Blue Snowball iCE mic. The acoustic shield panel came today & I just got through trying it out & there is a definite difference in the sound quality. My recordings sound so much better without having to use any other sound treatment panels in the room.This LyxPro VRI-30 acoustic panel is a little on the heavy side, so DO NOT try to use it with a swing arm boom mic stand that clamps to your desk, it will definitely weigh it down. Use it with a floor model mic stand, something sturdy enough to support the weight of both the panel & your mic.You could probably get away with using it on a flat surface if you rigged up some front legs for it so it would stand on its own. You could do this easily with paperback books, styrofoam pieces or even Legos. If you try to stand it up on a flat surface as is, it will tip forward because the back leg is the screw mount that goes on your mic stand, so it's a little longer & can't be removed.It is very well constructed & I see it lasting a long time. The silver backing is metal, not plastic & you can tell by the weight (about 2.5 lbs). It folds in half so you can store it away when you're not using it. It only takes a minute to screw it on to your mic stand, then screw the attachment piece for your mic into the bracket.Buying this saved me several hundred dollars vs. buying enough acoustic panels to remodel my closet & as long as you have a quiet environment (no kids, pets, outside noises), it will work fine for my needs.IT DOES NOT SOUNDPROOF A ROOM OR BLOCK ANY OUTSIDE NOISES. What it does is give you a good "backstop" for your voice & make it sound like you are recording in a vocal booth, provided that the room is quiet to begin with.(I may be "beating a dead horse" by saying that over & over but y'all KNOW how some Amazon shoppers are when they write reviews...lol.)Hope this review helps. I was on the fence about quality & whether it would actually work but I was pleasantly surprised.

I bought this sound absorbing panel as a continuation of my descent into the expensive hobby of amateur home studio recording (emphasis on amateur). I'm using this almost exclusively for my own vocal recordings and I'm recording in a basement that gets used for other purposes. Since I can't add foam panels throughout the space, I bought the VRI-30 to help deaden the room for recording. So far it's working very well and my vocal tracks have less reverb from the room.The setup of the VRI-30 was fairly simple and it looks great. The panel comes put together. You will just need to attach it to your microphone stand (no tools needed). There were written assembly instructions in the box (I saw them as I was throwing the box away). The VRI-30's height is not adjustable. This was an issue for me. I am recording with a Rode NT1000 which is a fairly large microphone. The original mount for this mic caused the top of the mic to basically be level with the top of the panel. This would seemingly reduce its effectiveness. So, I spent more money on my hobby and bought a shock mount (an inexpensive one) which lowered the height of the mic, relative to the panel. Along with the other benefits of having a shock mount, it allowed the mic to be lined up well with the panel.I've seen some reviews about this panel showing foam that looks a little bent. My foam had some marks in it too but they went away fast. Turns out the foam behaved like foam. I think the product looks great now and it works well for me, an amaetuer recording vocals in an undedicated space.

So, some background first:I am doing some recording for digital classes along with podcasts. I have a home office area which is fine, but i also have to spend some time recording in my kitchen area. this isn't so fine, because we have a rather noisy newer fridge that emits a constant buzz or hum. so, i thought i would try this shield to help things out.my setup was: blue snowball, on a shock mount attached to a scissor arm which attached to my table.now: blue snowball on a moukey mms-2, with the shield attached.instructions weren't super clear, but look at the box or the images on amazon and you will see clearly how to set this up.the shield is fine on the mic stand, but once i put the snowball on the adapter that comes with the shield, my microphone stand base is just not heavy enough to keep things where they need to stay. short term, i've borrowed a heavy textbook to weigh it down. long term, i have some smaller (2.5 or 5 pound) weight plates that should fit on top of the base and fix the balance. minor field mod which i do not mind doing.before i figured out the right way to connect things, i had the snowball on the moukey mount and used the provided snoball stand for the shield. it worked fine, except that the snowball stand is not the most stable for the larger shield, so i wouldn't really recommend that as a long term option.i will add the weight plate probably tomorrow and see if that makes it better.as for the performance?i listened to the real time feedback on my headphones and behind the shield and then away from, you could hear the difference. i made a test recording and then listened to that, as well as the recordings i made last week pre-shield, and while i'd argue the hum is still present, it's demonstrably less, to the point you probably won't mind it or may not even easily notice it. i'd say that at least initially, the investment seems worth itedit-one slight update. seems that when i mount things all in one, the shield being up a little higher changes things a bit. the hum is blocked less now than it was before. i am either going to get a second mic stand just for the shield that sits low, around the height of the snowball stand...or i may get a low end set of soundproofing and put a block on the top and bottom of the shield to make it a low budget soundproof box and see which way works out betterUpdate 2/7So the snowball mic was just too unstable and the weight wasn’t terribly helpful. I broke down and bought a Samson MD5 mic stand and it’s a great improvement. My snowball is on a Mouskey mic stand in front of it when I’m doing things on my tabletop set up. (On my desk, the snowball is on an arm and no need for the mic shield)