Yup, I run my Faital and Eminence Duallies side by side.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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Yup, I run my Faital and Eminence Duallies side by side.
i spent a little money trying to sound proof a room in by basement. 3/4" dry wall and insulation everywhere.
It helps a little but it is far from sound proof. In hind site it was probably a waste. Go all the way with it or don't bother imo.
I still have jams here sometime and have had no complaints.
It helps a little but it is far from sound proof. In hind site it was probably a waste. Go all the way with it or don't bother imo.
I still have jams here sometime and have had no complaints.
Question: I would prefer, for aesthetics, for the 2 duallys to be stacked on their sides; do I need to worry about phase issues with a setup like that?
my old old band used to practice in a residential garage, but we weren't exceedingly low end heavy or loud. strategic soundproofing on windows and garage door not only made the room sound better but also made it nearly silent outside except for certain bass notes.
with that dually and big solid state though, you're gonna need some industrial poopie. also i'm not a physics buff, but is soundproofing going to stop the big low end waves likely to annoy people?
Soundproofing a basement is pretty involved. Ideally mass would be the key (more drywall, insulation, etc.), but if it's not decoupled it doesn't actually do that much. Especially for low end, that's the hardest thing to reduce. You have to very detail oriented, because something like using the wrong caulking or driving a few nails through the wrong spots can trash a large portion of your good results.
So Netflix put all of friends on Instant and I've been binge watching it. I've never really seen it before, and I've noticed they all hang out in a coffee house with ever changing awesome music gear. so far I've seen a v4, a tuxedo peavey and a hiwatt stack.
This.
Actual "Soundproofing" is next to impossible if you're not building an entirel decoupled room-within-a-room with massive amounts of treatment.
You can absolutely mitigate what leaks outside, but low end especially is hard to reign in.
This is pretty much what I was getting at. Time and materials wise, soundproofing a room costs about as much as building a room. Probably more, considering you're usually going to use more drywall, acoustic rated caulk, probably fireproof insulation like rock wool/mineral wool. Even more if you're using specialized materials like resilient channel, some kind of acoustic specific fiberboard layered in with the drywall, green glue, a rubber membrane, neoprene pads for the floating floor and a bunch of other stuff. That's not to mention the electrical and if you're really doing it well, proper HVAC that won't transmit vibration either. That's what flashes through my brain when people casually drop ideas like "why don't you turn your garage into a studio?".
best case scenario you muffle the sound so much the neighbours can't tell where it's coming from. i remember someone was learning drums in the suburb my grandmother live in in Palmerston North with no soundproofing, in an open garage or something - someone wrote a letter (anonymous and extremely passive aggressive of course) to every single address over 3 streets. i'm pretty sure they kept going for a year or so.
this is pretty good actually. The bass tone is kind of weird considering the overall vibe. something with a little more stank would help.
Yeah I mean I can make sure I have carpet down and put some dampening material on the walls but I'm not going all out to sound proof the room. We'll likely only be in this house for 5 years or so and I'd never get my money back from the cost of sound proofing the room. We've actually been turning our amps down a lot at practice so our singer can hear himself better, so it might not be too horrible to work out. Like I said before, as long as I'm not breaking any laws and doing my best to not disturb the neighbors, I hardly see how it is any different than mowing your lawn for an hour or some guy running a big table saw in his garage.
Depending on the house and how much of the basement was actually exposed above ground (and a lot of other little things), the least you could do would probably be making a plug for the windows. Like say a bunch of rock wool or cotton batting, probably covered in a black fabric (so it doesn't stick out from the outside of the window), with a wood frame and some drywall on the inside envelope, with say some weatherstrip to seal the gap. I've got an idea of it in my head, it might not be coming through clearly in the description. Either that or straight up sealing up the windows with something over the interior to muffle the sound if possible, but that probably wouldn't be safe/legal.
Get a whole bunch of free/cheap "clean" mattresses from CL and line the basement with them.
I shutter to think what all that low end rumbling would shake out of those "clean" mattresses.
My guitarist had an epiphany at tonight's practice:
"Guys, They won't play us on the radio!"
"Guys, They won't play us on the radio!"
Probably best to play in the lawn in camo so no one can see you.
THE SPRINGFIELD MEN'S SHELTER IS GIVING AWAY SIXTY SOILED MATTRESSES!!!!!
I've done the whole jam in the basement thing and the neighbors could barely hear us. your bigger challenge will be the wife because if she's home it will be loud no matter where she is in the house.
