Sound proof room
Hi All,
Has anyone built themselves a sound inhibiting room, or modified an existing room so as not to annoy the rest of the house and or neighbours?
Have you tried one of those?
https://room.com/pages/office-privacy-booths?utm_source=thisiswhyimbroke...
Gustavo:
Loved the video that the Privacy Booth folks had linked, but ... among the ports and outlets I did NOT see a 1/4" jack for a bullet mic cable!
Seriously, a few years ago I worked for a firm that relocated its Los Angeles office, where I would occassionally "hotel," changing from a traditional individual-office model to an open floor plan with work areas. Great in theory but chaos in actual operation. Whenever I'd visit the new digs, everyone was hiding out in little booths around the edges of the big room, in structures that looked a lot like these Privacy Booths, installed after folks complained about how noisy and distracting the open floor plan was.
Scorny:
In colllege I worked at a campus radio station that had no budget for fancy foam soundproofing. Instead, we glued a double layer of big commercial cardboard egg flats to the walls and ceilings. Might work for reducing sound leaving your room. And if it doesn't work, you'll still be all set if you ever switch from harmonica playing to keeping hens.
Nice idea, I was thinking of building a room inside my barn, which currently acts as one great big amplifier - sounds great but very likely to cause complaints from all the neighbours. I have looked at 'Rockwool' which is appharently good for sound insulation. It's down to cost and how effective it may be.
Something that might be helpful is creating some sound absorbtion panels. I've recently been watching some videos on youtube about setting up streaming. One of the topics that has come up is sound proofing. There are many recommendations out there, but the best ones I've seen talk about making panels yourself.
You just need some 2in x 2in sticks of pine. They usually come in 10ft sticks. You'll also need a roll of pillow badding and a roll of furniture cushon foam. You can get this very inexpensively from a fabric or hobby store such as Hobby lobby. You will also need a few yards of fabric.
Basically you make a frame out of the pine and stretch the faberic over the frame to make a fabric panel. On the back end you place a 1in layer of pillow badding, and then a 1 in layer of the furniture foam. How you hold them in place is up to you. Then you hang them on your walls.
The general idea is that the panels will deaden the reverberation from the walls. It will improve the quality of sound that you hear and soften the sound that leaves the room; keeping the neighbors happy. You also get the added benefit of it making your recordings sound much cleaner since your mic won't be picking up that slight echo/reverb from the walls.
You can search youtube for "streaming sound proofing" for some other ideas, including recommendation on manufactured products. There are a lot of inexpensive options out there.
I'll be interested in actual, practical, responses, but in the meantime: We live in a pretty noisy neighborhood. I've been recording individual vocal tracks at home for our currently-isolated, "virtual," church choir. I've been setting up my equipment in my wife's walk-in closet, located in the quietest part of the house. With all of her clothes hanging in two levels of racks on three walls, the acoustics rival any professional studio! (I'm even thinking about contacting Kid Andersen to see if he'd like to rent her closet to set up a branch studio for Greaseland! I figure that if Kid & Lisa's laundry room works as a voice isolation booth, my wife's closet could work for a guitarist or harp player.)