Try the wardrobe. Genuinely. Open it, push the clothes to the sides, put the mic just outside facing in and the singer behind it. It's not a studio but it's the most absorptive surface in a bedroom by a mile and I've had usable vocals out of it.
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That's the small enclosed space doing its own resonance thing. Works better in a deep wardrobe than a shallow one, so probably not yours.
Cars are a terrible reference on their own, they have their own huge peaks and dips and every model is different. Use it as one of four checks, not as the truth.
The + '_ was the missing piece. I'd been writing impl Iterator<Item = &Record> and wondering why it wanted a lifetime it could clearly see.
The hiss from the preamp, yes, that's fixed by the booster. What you avoid is the extra noise you generate by pushing a cheap preamp to its limit, which is usually the worse of the two.
Don't chase -6 peaks. That's a habit from 16 bit days. At 24 bit you can happily peak at -18 to -12 and still have an enormous signal to noise ratio, and normalising afterwards costs you nothing. Running hot into a weak preamp is what's amplifying its hiss.
Straddling the corner rather than flat on the wall, is that just for the air gap behind?
The nearly-right model thing is very true. My C habits produced exactly the designs the checker hates, all pointers into a big shared arena.