Kaotica Eyeball
Treat the Mic. Not the Room.
Kaotica’s patented acoustic technology fits over your mic and, in seconds, creates a controlled, professional-grade recording environment.
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Build Your Kaotica.
Build Your Kaotica.
Our Story
2009
It Started With a Problem
While traveling for his corporate career, Kaotica founder Konrad Z saw firsthand how difficult it was to capture professional vocals outside a properly treated studio. After watching a friend struggle with the acoustics of a basement recording space, a simple question sparked an idea: What if you could treat the microphone instead of the entire room?
2011–2013
Turning an Idea Into an Invention
Konrad immersed himself in audio engineering and acoustics, developing and refining what would become the Kaotica Eyeball. He left his corporate career to pursue the idea full time, secured intellectual property protection, and committed to manufacturing in the United States after rejecting overseas manufacturing options that did not meet Kaotica’s standards.
2014
Kaotica Launches
After years of research, prototypes, and preparation, Kaotica officially launched in New York at major industry events including AES and CMJ. The Eyeball introduced creators to a radically different approach to recording vocals: a portable acoustic solution designed around the microphone rather than the room.
2015–2019
From Artists to a Global Community
Kaotica grew one artist at a time. With limited traditional marketing, Eyeballs were placed directly into the hands of musicians, producers, engineers, and creators, helping build the brand through real world use and word of mouth. As adoption grew, Kaotica expanded its product family and became increasingly recognized across music, voiceover, podcasting, and professional recording.
2020–2024
Expanding and Protecting the Innovation
Kaotica grew from a shared into a dedicated facility while expanding the Kaotica Series for a wider range of microphones and recording applications. The company continued investing in new technology, customization, and intellectual property, culminating in a major patent litigation victory in 2024.
2025 & Beyond
The Next Generation
Kaotica entered its next chapter with U.S. based manufacturing and fulfillment, a new generation of the Kaotica Eyeball, and continued innovation including its silicone pop filter. What began as an idea has grown into a globally recognized recording brand with the same mission at its core: empowering creators to capture professional quality vocals wherever inspiration happens.
FAQ
FAQ
The Kaotica Eyeball is a patented portable vocal booth that fits around your microphone, giving you a professional recording environment without building a traditional vocal booth.
It reduces room reflections and unwanted room sound directly around the mic, so you capture more of your voice and less of the room. The result is cleaner vocals, more consistent recordings, and less work in postproduction.
The Kaotica Eyeball is a patented portable vocal booth that fits around your microphone, giving you a professional recording environment without building a traditional vocal booth.
It reduces room reflections and unwanted room sound directly around the mic, so you capture more of your voice and less of the room. The result is cleaner vocals, more consistent recordings, and less work in postproduction.
Kaotica invented microphone isolation and is made in the USA . Our patented acoustic system is engineered to work as one complete system. The pop filter reduces plosives and controls airflow, while the internal cavity disperses unwanted sound and allows lower frequencies to escape, helping preserve the clarity, detail, and natural character of your voice.
Microphone isolation is more than wrapping foam around a microphone. The material formulation and cell structure, internal cavity size and shape, microphone position, and sound path to the capsule all affect how your voice is captured. If these elements are wrong, sound may not dissipate properly, creating a dark, enclosed, or muffled response.
Cheap copies use generic or lower-cost foam with different densities, shapes, and cavity designs. Many are built primarily to compete on price rather than acoustic performance. They may reduce some room sound, but they can also alter important vocal frequencies and detail, making the recording sound noticeably darker or less natural or muffled.
Kaotica invented microphone isolation and is made in the USA. Our patented acoustic system is engineered to work as one complete system. The pop filter reduces plosives and controls airflow, while the internal cavity disperses unwanted sound and allows lower frequencies to escape, helping preserve the clarity, detail, and natural character of your voice.
Microphone isolation is more than wrapping foam around a microphone. The material formulation and cell structure, internal cavity size and shape, microphone position, and sound path to the capsule all affect how your voice is captured. If these elements are wrong, sound may not dissipate properly, creating a dark, enclosed, or muffled response.
Cheap copies use generic or lower-cost foam with different densities, shapes, and cavity designs. Many are built primarily to compete on price rather than acoustic performance. They may reduce some room sound, but they can also alter important vocal frequencies and detail, making the recording sound noticeably darker or less natural or muffled.
Kaotica does not muffle or darken your vocals. It reduces room ambience and reflections while preserving the clarity, detail, and natural character of your voice.
The result is a cleaner, drier vocal that gives you more control when adding EQ, compression, reverb, and other effects in postproduction.
Kaotica does not muffle or darken your vocals. It reduces room ambience and reflections while preserving the clarity, detail, and natural character of your voice.
The result is a cleaner, drier vocal that gives you more control when adding EQ, compression, reverb, and other effects in postproduction.
Capture it clean first, instead of trying to repair it later
Kaotica — Cleans the Sound Before Recording
Reduces room reflections and unwanted room sound around the microphone, giving you a cleaner recording at the source.
Noise Reduction Software — Cleans the Sound After Recording
Reduces or masks frequencies it identifies as noise or reverb. When those frequencies overlap with your voice, processing can also reduce parts of your vocal fundamentals, harmonics, detail, and tone, making the result sound thinner or more processed.
The Benefit: Kaotica gives you a cleaner recording going into postproduction, helps preserve the natural detail of your voice, reduces corrective processing, and saves time when editing and mixing.
Capture it clean first, instead of trying to repair it later.
Kaotica — Cleans the Sound Before Recording.
Reduces room reflections and unwanted room sound around the microphone, giving you a cleaner recording at the source.
Noise Reduction Software — Cleans the Sound After Recording.
Reduces or masks frequencies it identifies as noise or reverb. When those frequencies overlap with your voice, processing can also reduce parts of your vocal fundamentals, harmonics, detail, and tone, making the result sound thinner or more processed.
The Benefit: Kaotica gives you a cleaner recording going into postproduction, helps preserve the natural detail of your voice, reduces corrective processing, and saves time when editing and mixing.
Kaotica models are designed for different microphone types and sizes. Build your Kaotica above for your specific mic type to make sure you select the right fit.
Kaotica models are designed for different microphone types and sizes. Build your Kaotica above for your specific mic type to make sure you select the right fit.
Kaotica helps your vocal sound cleaner, drier, and more focused by reducing room ambience and unwanted reflections around the microphone.
Because you are hearing more of your direct voice and less of the room, your recording may feel less warm or spacious at first. That is normal and gives you a cleaner vocal to shape in the mix.
A properly set up Kaotica should give you:
More voice and less room sound
Clearer vocal detail
Fewer unwanted reflections
More consistent takes
A cleaner starting point for EQ, compression, reverb, and mixing
Kaotica helps your vocal sound cleaner, drier, and more focused by reducing room ambience and unwanted reflections around the microphone.
Because you are hearing more of your direct voice and less of the room, your recording may feel less warm or spacious at first. That is normal and gives you a cleaner vocal to shape in the mix.
A properly set up Kaotica should give you:
More voice and less room sound
Clearer vocal detail
Fewer unwanted reflections
More consistent takes
A cleaner starting point for EQ, compression, reverb, and mixing
Not necessarily. Kaotica is designed to control the sound directly around your microphone, so you can achieve a cleaner recording without treating the entire room.
Very reflective spaces may still benefit from simple treatment such as a rug, soft furnishings, blankets, or acoustic panels.
Not necessarily. Kaotica is designed to control the sound directly around your microphone, so you can achieve a cleaner recording without treating the entire room.
Very reflective spaces may still benefit from simple treatment such as a rug, soft furnishings, blankets, or acoustic panels.
SOVAS
Award Winning
Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Awards:
Outstanding Technical Achievement Advancement in Vocal Recording
