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Before going any further - is there a clothes closet in the room or an adjacent room? If so, open the door, loosely stuff it with hanging clothes, put the back of the mic facing the open door perhaps 10 cm from the hanging clothes and voila, you have your booth. It will have way more absorption than the item in the link.




This works especially well if you are using a mike with a figure-8 pattern (such as they typical ribbon microphone).

An ordinary heavy cardboard box can work too, used in the same manner as the 'portable booth.' It has enough give to it to absorb a certain amount of sound, enough substance to block some sound as well (nesting a couple boxes is even better). I've seen cardboard refrigerator boxes used as full-sized vocal booths in a pinch.

the Insolent Lad
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full. ~Carl Sandburg