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I recently purchased a home with an attached one car garage. I’d like to renovate the room to a sound proofed music room (drums, sax, loud stereo, etc.)
The floor is poured concrete.
I’m willing to frame and build a room in the garage but I have very little money to work with. I have most of the lumber I’ll probably need.
So far I’ve heard egg cartons tacked to the finished wall, drywall stickers stacked (like sheets of paper) on top of each other inside the framed wall, and hanging carpet to the finished wall.
The garage is about 25′ from the front sidewalk in a pretty quiet neighborhood. Any musicians reading this know you can get the bug to play/write, etc. at any time, so the room really needs to be super quiet.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated!!
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Michael
There have been a number of posts over the past few months regarding sound proofing. Even though the situation was somewhat different, a search on these should give you what you need. The basic thrust was that you need a certain amount of mass to absorb the noise. Several specific product names were mentioned as having been successfully used.
We used to use egg cartons to cut down the internal echos - they are a lot cheaper than heavy drapes - but you would need a lot of them to give you enough mass to prevent noise transmission through the walls.
(Pyramids of sound absorbant materials are affixed to the walls of anechoic chambers to deaden the reflected sound. Using the egg cartons is a poor person's way of doing this. It can look a bit strange, but by putting the egg cartons in strategic places, you can "tune" the room to get the "liveliness" you need to achieve the best sound...)
Some of the posts on the previous soundproofing threads suggested extra layers of wall board. I assume that this will help, but my limited knowledge of acoustics leads me to think that wall board is not really the most effective means of attenuating sound - you really need something that has some amount of flex in it to actually absorb the sound. In the early days of automotive sound proofing a rubberized horse hair matt was used - heavy but fairly effective. The newer types of automotive sound proofing use flexible foam plastic or rubber compounds - they would probably do a great job in a house but would be a bit on the expensive side.
A couple of decades ago, I used a couple of layers of textured fiberboard (covered with plywood for protection as it was fairly soft) to provide a fairly effective sound barrier between sleeping porches (the lady using the adjacent sleeping porch tended to produce some rather load moaning on those evenings that her boy friend stayed over...) Anyway, that was back when I could still hear such things. Haven't followed the trends in this area as I have developed my own personal sound proofing over the last several years (as a result, I would definitely recommend using the special hearing protectors or ear plugs they have now for musicians if you produce enough amplitude to require a sound proofed room). However, a search of the posts on sound proofing or sound insulation should give you most of what you need...
*>"A couple of decades ago, I used a couple of layers of textured fiberboard (covered with plywood for protection as it was fairly soft) to provide a fairly effective sound barrier between sleeping porches (the lady using the adjacent sleeping porch tended to produce some rather load moaning on those evenings that her boy friend stayed over...)"Casey, have you had your hormones checked lately ?? Most men I know who are a couple decades younger than I am now, would have been putting a microphone hooked to an amplifier up to that wall. LOL (The purpose would, of course, be to pick up a sh*#loud of that load moaning and make it even loader.)
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casey,
thanks much...to my delight today i scored a crap load of 4" Thermax scraps from a job i'll use in my endeavor to create my room
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I recently purchased a home with an attached one car garage. I'd like to renovate the room to a sound proofed music room (drums, sax, loud stereo, etc.)
The floor is poured concrete.
I'm willing to frame and build a room in the garage but I have very little money to work with. I have most of the lumber I'll probably need.
So far I've heard egg cartons tacked to the finished wall, drywall stickers stacked (like sheets of paper) on top of each other inside the framed wall, and hanging carpet to the finished wall.
The garage is about 25' from the front sidewalk in a pretty quiet neighborhood. Any musicians reading this know you can get the bug to play/write, etc. at any time, so the room really needs to be super quiet.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated!!
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Hey, that was twenty some years ago - I had lots of hormones in those days. However, in Berkeley in the Seventies, one didn't need to have their sound effects from the other side of the wall...