Timmyg1978
I'm living in a house with three other people, and volume is starting to become a problem. A friend recommended that I use carpet, foam and newspapers to insulate my room, the plan would be to start with a layer of carpet, add a layer of foam, a layer of newspaer, another layer of foam, and one more layer of carpet (and compact it all to about 3 or 4 inches). Does this method actualy work? I can get all these things for free, but I don't wanna spend the time doing it if it doesn't do any good;^]
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 10:53 pm
WirelessDJ
FIRE HAZARD! the professional foam is expensive and safer
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Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 1:41 am
Timmyg1978
The thing is, my room is around 120 sq. feet per wall, and that's not covering the floor which needs work as well. But I don't have four hundred or more dollars to spend, I'm only guarunteed about $600 a month (anything else is from selling old equip. on ebay), and I have to start putting back $200 a month starting january for school. Isn't there some type of cheap fireproof lining I could wrap around the layers? As far as keeping most of the noise trapped inside the room will my poor mans method work? Seriously, I hardly have any budget here at all for this, but something needs to be done;^[
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 2:44 am
asymptote
The thing that you really need to soundproof is dense material, not foam. Foam etc is fine in cutting down unwanted sound reflections in a room or muffling the sound, but sound will still pass through, especially bass fequencies.
Lead sheeting is good and so are engineering bricks. Don't suppose you'll want to start using those sort of materials, though.
It's surprising what a mattress covering a door will quieten. It's often doorways that let sound out. But if the walls are partition walls, ie not built of brick, it's a case of putting in some bricks or lining with lead. The trouble is, then that sound will be able to pass through the ceilings and floors, because they're usually only thin floorboards and plaster, so they need to be lined too.
The only other thing to do is to turn the volume down, but that's not much fun, is it?
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Lead sheeting is good and so are engineering bricks. Don't suppose you'll want to start using those sort of materials, though.
It's surprising what a mattress covering a door will quieten. It's often doorways that let sound out. But if the walls are partition walls, ie not built of brick, it's a case of putting in some bricks or lining with lead. The trouble is, then that sound will be able to pass through the ceilings and floors, because they're usually only thin floorboards and plaster, so they need to be lined too.
The only other thing to do is to turn the volume down, but that's not much fun, is it?
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Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 10:21 am
arthurvasey
Or move to a house on your own where the nearest neighbours live a squillion miles away!
Funny thing is - I've lived in neighbourhoods with people who complain when you have your music on in normal hours at a low volume - fairly quiet music anyway - but they play loud rock and what I call "thump-thump music" at three in the morniong and when you complain, they quote the Russian phone directory at you (everything ends in "off")
Funny thing is - I've lived in neighbourhoods with people who complain when you have your music on in normal hours at a low volume - fairly quiet music anyway - but they play loud rock and what I call "thump-thump music" at three in the morniong and when you complain, they quote the Russian phone directory at you (everything ends in "off")
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 11:14 am
asymptote
LOL I've lived in neighborhoods like that. Oh those Russians!!! (Boney M, Rasputin)
I've got a 16 year old Son who plays his music quietly. I keep asking him to turn it up but he won't. He gets annoyed at me and shouts at me to turn my music down because he 'has to go to school tomorrow'. All that at only around 10.30 at night. It seems like he's the old guy and I'm the teenager. Trouble is he doesn't like dance music yet.
Huh.
I've got a 16 year old Son who plays his music quietly. I keep asking him to turn it up but he won't. He gets annoyed at me and shouts at me to turn my music down because he 'has to go to school tomorrow'. All that at only around 10.30 at night. It seems like he's the old guy and I'm the teenager. Trouble is he doesn't like dance music yet.
Huh.
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 1:36 pm
Pionara
Legend also has it that eggboxes are good for soundproofing as well. you know...the cardboard versions with the individual egg 'cups' cut out of them. obviously it'll take a while, but I'm sure you could pick up these kind of egg boxes for next to nothing?
Cheers...and keep spinnin...(allbeit quietly for the forseeable future!!!!)..(",)
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Cheers...and keep spinnin...(allbeit quietly for the forseeable future!!!!)..(",)
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Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 1:56 pm
Timmyg1978
Hehe, I have a hard time mixing at lower volumes, maybe it's just my hearing but it doesn't come through clear enough for me.
I've heard about the egg cartons too, and that's another thing I can get for free most likely (local IGA is always throwing out expired eggs). I'll have to try that with with the mattress thing, good advice since my loud speaker is very close to the door and the other side of my door is a narrow hallway. It's a pretty old house, so the walls are thin and the electrical needs improoving. Though after thinking about it, only one wall connects to the inside of the house (other three to outside) and the ceiling goes straight to the roof, so I could get by just lining the one wall and door, no worry about the neighbors, they've been caught outside drinking & partying while I practice (day partiers always crack me up), and the preacher across the street says he has no problem with the loud music (though I don't imagine he hears it well from that far).
Anyways, thanks for all the good advice guys, I'm gonna go out tomorrow & check on the egg crates. Off to bed for me now, Cheers!
I've heard about the egg cartons too, and that's another thing I can get for free most likely (local IGA is always throwing out expired eggs). I'll have to try that with with the mattress thing, good advice since my loud speaker is very close to the door and the other side of my door is a narrow hallway. It's a pretty old house, so the walls are thin and the electrical needs improoving. Though after thinking about it, only one wall connects to the inside of the house (other three to outside) and the ceiling goes straight to the roof, so I could get by just lining the one wall and door, no worry about the neighbors, they've been caught outside drinking & partying while I practice (day partiers always crack me up), and the preacher across the street says he has no problem with the loud music (though I don't imagine he hears it well from that far).
Anyways, thanks for all the good advice guys, I'm gonna go out tomorrow & check on the egg crates. Off to bed for me now, Cheers!
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 4:49 pm
asymptote
I've also heard that porridge is real good. Just boil up a big pan load of porridge, throw it at a wall, then carry on with pan after pan until you've covered the entire room thick enough.
Another idea. Buy your housemates some of those ear protector things.
Another idea. Buy your housemates some of those ear protector things.
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 4:56 pm
Soundman69
They have these new fangled things called headphones. Do yourself a favor and buy a great pair like the Technics DH1200 or something along those lines and you'll be happy mixing in those. They sound great.
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 8:10 pm
Timmyg1978
Soundman69 wrote :
They have these new fangled things called headphones. Do yourself a favor and buy a great pair like the Technics DH1200 or something along those lines and you'll be happy mixing in those. They sound great.
How exactly would that work using my headphones for both cue and main? I wouldn't think using two pair would be very practical, or am I missing something?
Posted Wed 18 Oct 06 @ 10:48 pm
Soundman69
Oh the mixer you use can't blend between cue and pgm? On most modern mixers you can listen to both and blend or split between left and right ear as well.
Posted Thu 19 Oct 06 @ 1:34 am
Timmyg1978
Ok, my mixer (gemini ps-04) is capable of this method, tryed it out but still not very practical. I'm getting the same problems with clarity that I get with low volumes and to be honest, the split mode is kind of annoying for me;^]
Posted Thu 19 Oct 06 @ 6:52 am
djsherz
Yeah, I've never got on with split cueing or blending with headphones either... I need a loudspeaker for the main mix!
Posted Thu 19 Oct 06 @ 4:48 pm