Cheap sound proofing............

[TOStudent]

options for at home?

Anything to keep the wife quiet and happy...........................

 

[merlop]

options for at home?

Anything to keep the wife quiet and happy...........................

Earplugs... Cheap as I can think of

 

[MichaelG]

options for at home?

Anything to keep the wife quiet and happy...........................

What is your goal here exactly? To get a cranked sound at low wife-pleasing volumes, or to blast your eardrums without her hearing it?

Sound-proofing a room is not cheap in any way, shape or form. Getting a cranked sound at lower volumes can be achieved pretty economically.

 

[glpg80]

our way was pretty cheap to be honest.

you know those memory foam knock-off matress things you can buy at walmart for $20 for 6'x6'?

well anyway they have all these crazy patterns.

we bought out a walmart store of them, spent around $250.

went to home depot and purchase sheets of particleboard. cut the particle boards into squares and in some areas wierd triangle shapes.

we then glued and staggered the cheap foam to the pieces - some squares ranging in size/shape from 1ft to 4ft triangles.

we made an attempt to cover all of the ceiling and most if not all of the major walls.

in some areas we just put up the foam itself randomly.

it works excellent and was a relatively low cost solution to a 20' room.

 

[Motorpud]

You know, I've heard egg cartons work well, like those 2 dozen square kinda cardboard looking egg cartons. An old buddy of mine worked at a breakfast place and "allegedly" he took a bunch home everyday and sound proofed his room out of them. Does anybody know if there is any truth to this or is he full of shit?

 

[PeteLaramee]

You know, I've heard egg cartons work well, like those 2 dozen square kinda cardboard looking egg cartons. An old buddy of mine worked at a breakfast place and "allegedly" he took a bunch home everyday and sound proofed his room out of them. Does anybody know if there is any truth to this or is he full of shit?

I'm curious about this too. I have a hundred (or two) of these, but I'm just too damn lazy to do the work to find out.

We covered the ceiling of the basement/jamroom with moving blankets and hit spots with 1' x 1' acoustic foam. It works well as far as dampening the room, but it doesn't do much for my wife if she's watching tv in the family room directly above us.

 

[fearhk213]

options for at home?

Anything to keep the wife quiet and happy...........................

What is your goal here exactly? To get a cranked sound at low wife-pleasing volumes, or to blast your eardrums without her hearing it?

Sound-proofing a room is not cheap in any way, shape or form. Getting a cranked sound at lower volumes can be achieved pretty economically.

+1 Yep, I looked into sound proofing at one point and quickly retreated once I realized the $, time, and construction involved. Egg crates, foam, and Guitar Center acoustic panels will only tame some of the sound waves in the room and aren't going to do much at all for the person in the next room.

 

[Rufus Leaking]

The hardest part of soundproofing is blocking low frequencies, which foam and egg cartons won't do. The only effective ways to block low end are mass (like cement walls or lead sheeting) or decoupling / isolation - a room within a room.

The cheapest, most effective way to do it for an existing room would be to install isolating clips like these to your existing studs and rafters;

http://www.greengluecompany.com/noiseproofing_clips.php

The put up a new layer of sheetrock or even better, two layers of sheetrock with green glue in between. Then you'd have a very quiet room, but you're looking at a couple of grand at least for a 20' room.

The John Sayers forum has all the info you could ever want on soundproofing.

 

[iplayloudly]

+1 Yep, I looked into sound proofing at one point and quickly retreated once I realized the $, time, and construction involved. Egg crates, foam, and Guitar Center acoustic panels will only tame some of the sound waves in the room and aren't going to do much at all for the person in the next room.

truth.

the only way to keep low frequencies from escaping is something dense like MDF or HDF, and air space, like building a "room within a room", with space between the walls. It can be a lot of work/time/money.

 

[bravedude2]

packing blankets.
the heavy ones that cover furniture.

 

[Bob Savage]

There is no cheap solution to sound proofing.

You can do all kinds of stuff to dampen the sound within the room, including foam, carpeting, egg cartons, whatever you choose, but true sound proofing has varying degrees of effectivity, none of which are cheap.

 

[Mailman1971]

It is pricey. I have about $600 tied up in my area that we play at now and its not even half done.
Did the Foam insulation and then plywood over that, then the carpet padding OVER THAT!
But the problem is the area we play in is REALLY large and I only got to the MAIN 3 walls. Havent hit the ceiling or the back walls yet. But its coming along. Much better than how it started out about 5 years back.
Guess its the old.......Rome wasnt built in a day.......as they say....
But the Romans Werent CRANKING out some AMPS with a super loud drummer either!!!

 

[Bob Savage]

One of the most effective methods for sound proofing are air gaps. The room in a room methodology is very expensive, but very effective. Bigger air gaps equal better reduction on the outside. There are simulation methods using staggered studs, risilient channels, etc., but it must be done right otherwise you'll transfer sound right through the walls.

 

[Bob Savage]

the area we play in is REALLY large

This is a perfect candidate for a room in a room.

 

[scottosan]

will respond more later, but Owens corning oc703 2 inch acoustic rigid fiberglass panels @ .86 per square foot and choose a discount fabric of choice to cover the boards

 

[Mailman1971]

the area we play in is REALLY large

This is a perfect candidate for a room in a room.

Its almost what we are doing. Its in the back of my Pole barn / Garage. WE put the foam inbetween the studs.
Then we put the Plywood over that to make the '2nd' wall. Then we added some full walls of carpet padding.
It really cut it down alot. I think the main part of the music is flowing out of the part that isnt finished and the ceiling area which is open. I am going to put the styrofoam sheets on the studs'rafters above to make a 'ceiling' out of the styrofoam.
But man....such a large area its pricey.

I would say the area we play in is probably 15'X30' and the ceiling is 10 feet high.

Pricey to finish. But it will be kick ass when done.

Dan

 

[Bob Savage]

I would say the area we play in is probably 15'X30' and the ceiling is 10 feet high.

Very nice!!! Even cooler that it's on your property.

 

[Mailman1971]

What makes it nice is that my neighbor is also my Bass player/fill in drummer.
We are both in our 40's and love to work on that jam area.
Just funds at the moment sorta sucking. Wish I could put more into it at the moment.....but day at a time.

 

[TOStudent]

options for at home?

Anything to keep the wife quiet and happy...........................

Earplugs... Cheap as I can think of

LMAO

 

[TOStudent]

our way was pretty cheap to be honest.

you know those memory foam knock-off matress things you can buy at walmart for $20 for 6'x6'?

well anyway they have all these crazy patterns.

we bought out a walmart store of them, spent around $250.

went to home depot and purchase sheets of particleboard. cut the particle boards into squares and in some areas wierd triangle shapes.

we then glued and staggered the cheap foam to the pieces - some squares ranging in size/shape from 1ft to 4ft triangles.

we made an attempt to cover all of the ceiling and most if not all of the major walls.

in some areas we just put up the foam itself randomly.

it works excellent and was a relatively low cost solution to a 20' room.

I'd like to try this memory foam. And moving/furniture blankets, I have access to a lot of them.
I am back east so I am in the basement in the farthest corner from the tv/family room.
I'm under the laundry room behind two doors to get the basement. But looking up at the floor above me is only plywood. If I can get something between that. Also two of the walls where I play are cement so I am sure it echos across the basement and through the floor above.