found a room to jam/practice for my band now need to sound proof it pls help

[varunkapahi]

......and this room is on a terrace i mean a rooftop!

hey so to remind you again am here situated in India so perhaps i cannot really get hold of a lot of supplies and i plan to work with everyday house hold material and normal stuff you can get from most markets
there are two problems we need to tackle:
1.there shouldn't be too much of sound reflections in side the room (that is fairly easy to handle)

2.a lot of sound/music/noise should not escape out to the floor below or through the two wooden doors

we practiced there once and the neighbors were out complaining about our volumes, and the largest amp we have is a 60W and there are only three amps+acoustic drums, its a classic rock/blues rock outfit

so could you guys suggest some ways to go about sort of sound proofing the room in a somewhat in-expensive manner especially about the sound leaking from the doors and to the lower floors (drums especially)


btw sorry for the long post

[varunkapahi]

bump!
is this not the right place?

[anderbass]

In your situation, It might help a bit to try serveral layers of thick carpeting or rugs on the floor and hung over the doors.

Take a look through some of these:
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ng+your+studio

[theshadow2001]

I doubt you'll be able to do this effectively without a lot of money and specialist material and a good aptitude for being a builder.

The more you research doing this I think you will come to the same conclusion.

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by theshadow2001

I doubt you'll be able to do this effectively without a lot of money and specialist material and a good aptitude for being a builder.

The more you research doing this I think you will come to the same conclusion.

yeah its been a while and guess we would save some $$ and then go about soundproofing

so any advice/help or maybe if some one could share their experience on DIY this project and also if someone could help me with some directions as in what materials would be better suited... ?

[Hawaii Islander]

Friends of mine hung thick cloth over the walls of their practice space and left about a one inch air gap between the cloth and the wall to help deaden the sound. Their practice space was side by side with other practice areas (cement walls). They would sometimes hear the other bands while they tried to rehearse. The cloth coverings helped to alleviate the problem. Its not perfect, but it should help. The key was having thick enough material and leaving an air gap between the cloth and the wall.

[bigfatbass]

Carpet EVERYTHING with as many layers as you can, and +1 for hanging carpet/cloth around the walls with air in between layers. A drum/bass amp riser full of mattresses can really help with floor transfer, too. No riser? Put your amp on pillows. Anything to break the floor contact.
Stuff the kick drum with pillows, hang strips of cloth with tape on all the cymbals, and if drums is a heavy hitter, tape feminine napkins to the toms. Really. Best cheap drum damper there is, I've seen it employed in a dozen studios.

And now after all that, Mr Safety adds one more piece of advice when you have your carpeted box ready for practice: Don't smoke or have candles in there.

[theshadow2001]

Perhaps a more viable alternative would be to make an isolation booth for the drummer. Then the rest could turn down a hell of a lot more. I don't know if that would be easier than doing the room. But it's something else to look into.

[bburk]

Carpeting is going to help a bit with the (high-end) reflections in the room, but it's not going to do too much for isolation especially the bass and kick.

you can make some nice bass traps out of fiberglass batting like owens-corning 703. There some good discussions on it's use and application here. here's a little howto as well

For the doors, I'd suggest getting some sturdy doors (like exterior doors) installed making sure they are completely sealed airtight (weather stripping) including the bottom-of-door to floor gap.

Since you are on the second floor, isolating the floor is going to be a big problem. Ideally you would need to float the floor and/or use lead or mass loaded vinyl for sound isolation.
Of course, this is VERY expensive and requires specialized materials. Unfortunately, I don't know of too much else you can do to isolate a floor... Perhaps you can get better answers over at the homerecording.com forum.

Good luck

[varunkapahi]

hey thanks for all the suggestions
and yeah am not looking to completely isolating the jam room's sound which is far more difficult and expensive we just want to lower it down for the people living around a bit u know guess the carpets and cloths are already up the walls!