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jubilairesjljubilairesjl Posts: 498
edited May 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Do any of you know any effective ways of sound proofing a room or at least dampening the sound that will come out of the room? I want to be able to play my drums/guitar/piano without everyone telling me to stop.
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  • harrisonmerwinharrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    jubilairesjl wrote:
    Do any of you know any effective ways of sound proofing a room or at least dampening the sound that will come out of the room? I want to be able to play my drums/guitar/piano without everyone telling me to stop.

    how much are you willign to spend? you could fully proof the room. Is tehre any heating/air ducts in the room? block those, also mabe hang curtains around the whoel room that will stop some of the noise, but heavy bass work is really hard to get out of a house.
    2005.09.04
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  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    i've done some cheap sound-proofing.

    In my basement....I have those ceiling tiles that can be moved kind of what they have in most high schools....i put some egg crates on top of the tiles (hidden) and that helped damper some sound...

    and also with drums...

    I bought some large planks of wood (6 feet by 8 feet)...bought 3 of them....and on the bottom took larger chunks of wood (6 feet long, 1 foot high, 2 feet thick) to keep it sturdy....

    And i attached eggcrates to that, surrounded the drums with it, and it helped with dampering sound as well as for mic'ing the drums....gave it a sound I really enjoy.

    All in all it cost me around $75 for all of it...and egg crates i stole from people in my dorm when i graduated so I had an abundance.

    hope that helps

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  • jubilairesjljubilairesjl Posts: 498
    thank you all!
    Noblesville 6/22/2003 St. Louis 5/4/2010 East Troy 9/4/2011
    Cleveland 5/20/2006 Columbus 5/6/2010 Chicago 7/19/2013
    Cincinnatti 6/24/2006 Noblesville 5/7/2010. Buffalo 10/12/2013
    Lollapalooza 8/5/2007 Mountain View 10/23/2010 Cincinnatti 10/1/2014
    Washington D.C. 6/22/2008 Mountain View 10/24/2010 St. Louis 10/3/2014
    Chicago 8/22/2008(EV Solo) St. Louis 7/1/2011 (EV Solo) St. Paul 10/19/2014
    Kansas City 5/3/2010 East Troy 9/3/2011 Milwaukee 10/20/2014
    Hampton 4/18/2016 Columbia 4/21/2016 Lexington 4/26/2016
    NYC 5/2/2016
  • yenraekyenraek Posts: 21
    nothing beats concrete walls surrounded by dirt
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  • harrisonmerwinharrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    yenraek wrote:
    nothing beats concrete walls surrounded by dirt

    yeah just dig a 400 foot hole, pump out all the water, then buid a 10 foot ceiling, and then get someone else to fill the hole back up...they wont hear a thing! just make sure you hook up yoru mic cables, and leave the one end out of the hole before filling
    2005.09.04
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  • Kevin WilsonKevin Wilson Posts: 333
    Hey I could write a long post on how to do this shit or i can just tell you that i learned everything i know about it at http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/ try that and there should be enough info ther to keep you busy a while go to the studio building threads. PEACE!!!
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    I'm not sure how well this works, but one of my old teachers told me he did this in College.

    He said he took those yellow mattress cushion things, the ones with all the bumps, and put them all over his dorm, walls and ceiling, with the bumpy things showing, flat side to the wall. He said that really stops a lot of the noise.

    Sorry though, I don't really know what those "yellow mattress bumpy cushion things" are called though.
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