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Affordable Sound Proofing?
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If you are trying to significantly reduce the low frequencies from being heard on the other side of a wall, the necessary treatment(s) is not cheap.
More detail on the environment, including room size, and what you are trying to accomplish are necessary to receive specific recommendations.
More detail on the environment, including room size, and what you are trying to accomplish are necessary to receive specific recommendations.
Free tips (so you won’t need to turn the volume up so loudly):
Put your speakers at ear height.
Move closer to your speakers.
Put your speakers in front of you/pointed straight at your ears.
Roll off the lows or use a HPF to remove muddy frequencies and make your bass easier to hear.
Move further away from other sources of noise.
Try pointing your speakers at the ceiling. You won’t get standing waves across the room clashing with other peoples sound.
Rehearse with headphones or IEMs.
* feel free to add more simple hacks.
Put your speakers at ear height.
Move closer to your speakers.
Put your speakers in front of you/pointed straight at your ears.
Roll off the lows or use a HPF to remove muddy frequencies and make your bass easier to hear.
Move further away from other sources of noise.
Try pointing your speakers at the ceiling. You won’t get standing waves across the room clashing with other peoples sound.
Rehearse with headphones or IEMs.
* feel free to add more simple hacks.
Thanks for looking. It is a basement with Sheetrock walls and a drop ceiling. 2 walls have concrete foundation in them. Floor is also concrete under carpet. Thanks for your help
What are you trying to accomplish?
See if you can find some office divider panels from somewhere. I did, and they help. I have a bunch of other ideas but they are costly in time, effort, and/ or materials.
If you want to go cheap, go to the thrift store and find the thickest curtains/blankets/rugs you can find and cover all surfaces with them. OR, get yourself a DI box, headphone amp and a pair of earbuds and go direct into the mixer.
Sorry, but soundproofing is expensive... conceptually, it is building a room inside of a room.
As was stated layers of curtains and tapestry is a good budget way to go. Another way is to buy Rock wool at Lowes or HD and then lay them in between two tapestries and sew around them so they stay in place and you tapestries pancake together. You can then hang to tapestry on said wall with maybe an inch of space from the wall. It's one of the easier and cheaper ways I've seen it done that is reasonably helpful. Carpet padding is also cheap and can be used in a similar way but the rock wool is thicker at around 2"
None of this is soundproofing. These are sound treatments of sorts.
The OP should clarify whether they’re trying to address transmission to adjacent spaces, or reflections within the current space.
I still like Egg cartons lol !! they just look cool .
As Rod Gervais points out in his book: Covering the walls of a space with egg cartons not only does nothing beneficial for acoustic treatments or sound transmission, it also surrounds you with highly flammable material.
Are you trying to:
A) Make the room sound better
B) Stop sound from leaving the room
C) Both
Doesn't matter the option, there isn't any uber-cheap ways to get it done. Relatively inexpensive, yes, but not dirt cheap.
A) Make the room sound better
B) Stop sound from leaving the room
C) Both
Doesn't matter the option, there isn't any uber-cheap ways to get it done. Relatively inexpensive, yes, but not dirt cheap.
They look like an old episode of Hee Haw and they pose a serious fire hazard.
I came across this awhile back when i was looking into it. i didn't try it myself though.
As has been stated previously, this is not soundproofing which is what the OP asked for. That said, we’re all guessing that the OP knows the difference between treatments and isolation.
Look for Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV) aka Lead Curtains for sale locally (You don’t want to pay for shipping for these!). It’s one of the few things that stop low frequencies passing thru it.
It’ll also reflect back the bass frequencies. A few bass traps in the corners of the room may be needed.
It’ll also reflect back the bass frequencies. A few bass traps in the corners of the room may be needed.
MLV is an interesting one for sound isolation. It does work, but it’s massively outclassed in terms of performance and cost by drywall. It’s only real benefit in terms of isolation is that it’s easily retrofitted into an existing space without needing to get into actual construction.
As an acoustic treatment it really only works when constructed as part of a Helmholtz resonator. It’s largely ineffective as a bass trap if it’s just suspended in free air.
