I was responding to another recording post on another platform (about the difficulty of getting a clean/dry vocal in a small, ‘bright’ room) and started looking at ‘mic carrel’ type sound absorbers. They range from several hundred dollars for larger units way down to about 30 dollars US. In fact, I ended up deciding to buy one of these:

You can also buy it directly from Monoprice with free US shipping, I believe:https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=602650&utm_term=&utm_campaign=PMax:+Smart+Shopping+-+Monoprice+-+Pro+Audio+%26+Instruments&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&hsa_acc=6614305189&hsa_cam=17489108046&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkMGcBhCSARIsAIW6d0CfnEjr_I6PGCI6FPtwRcU10ulhTqX_A6h3bfIhUC8OzcdI7dh2xUUaAv0XEALw_wcB

So… How well does it work?

I works pretty darn well for helping to tame voice reflections off walls and other nearby objects (which has often been an issue for me when working in my primary computer/mixing area). It’s a well designed, heavy duty-feeling piece of kit with everything you need to set it up on a table or mount it to a mic stand or other vertical pipe/tube of similar size. (I would recommend using a heavy duty, stable stand for such mounting, possibly a tripod with broad spread; the unit is surprisingly heavy — you get your $30 worth of metal, for sure.)

Monoprice: “25dB OF NOISE REDUCTION”

“With it’s [sic] layer of acoustic foam, the Stage Right™ Microphone Isolation Shield reduces outside noise by 25dB, equivalent to a 17x difference in volume! By comparison, a normal conversation is roughly 55dB. The shield can easily reduce that volume down to 30dB, which is equivalent to a whisper. The Stage Right Microphone Isolation Shield does the same thing with any unwanted noise, keeping your vocal tracks cleaner and clearer by orders of magnitude.”

(That’s not going to silence a jackhammer under your window or a blaring TV across the room — but it will go a long way to drying up unwanted reflections from nearby objects and even reducing ambient noises like computer fans.)