This is in no way an article or guide, it's just a thread where I ask ways in which I can avoid fucking my neighbors, obviously lowering the volume helps and just roaming around your place and checking how much sound levels affect others, but when you're listening to something in the middle of the night, the sound seems to reach way further. I am looking for CHEAP, CREATIVE ways to doing this with minimum infrastructure cost. Again, using headphones would be a lot easier but fuck me, 5.1 Surround!!!!
Tips, ideas. I will try to implement them and make something out of it. Expect from creative DIY projects coming your way. My legs still hurt, got to get a desk soon.
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8 and 3 inches if you go with centimeters make it 30 and 12
I'm trying to think of a cheap way to make the exterior, all I can think of is finding scrap wood on craigslist and such, or getting a bunch of free hardback books. I've seen dumpsters with bunches of books.
Awesome, I am going to try this!
We had a sound engineer come in and do some recording once. He covered all the mirrors in a sheet before setting up. Said they caused sound bounce, no absorption.
yeh I think curtains, windows, carpet and cusions are the worst offenders, and of course mirrors
They send the sound waves into all directions and deplete energy by canceling out other sound waves. All the sound waves must be absorbed or diffused so that they do not leave the room, the more energy you cancel out and waste by diffusion, less energy will need absorbed. Blocking out noise and stopping echo's go hand in hand because by trying to block out noise you are inadvertently trying to block out echos, a product of noise.
Here is a picture of a what I was talking about for the exterior with a cooler design.
To reiterate, egg boxes or the like, stop echo and muffle high frequencies. They make the music sound dead. This is why they are used in recording studio's. They record the pure dead sound of the instrument and add the echo and reverb they want. To soundproof a room takes a lot more effort.
This information comes to you from an audio engineer of 11 years experience installing sound systems in pubs and clubs all over the UK, and keeping the noise pollution to within building regulations.
You could also build a room within a room with plexiglass, and soundproof that room. That way it would never come into contact with the walls or ceiling and you could build a false floor as mentioned in chippy's post.
The walls absorb sound in the recording studio in college, as well as having two glass doors and windows between each room
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