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re: Sound proofing a small space 5 feet wide.
Posted on 9/24/12 at 11:55 am to Drumguy25
Posted on 9/24/12 at 11:55 am to Drumguy25
I'm doing something similar right now and here's my plan.
1) Take some C or Z purlin and screw it into the current walls...you want as little contact as possible WHILE still making the structure sound. I'm doing mine ~18" apart.
2) Sheetrock (maybe plywood would work) the purlin to make basically "another room". The purlin will sort of 'absorb' the sound in a way and the inner walls will soak up a good bit as well.
3) Caulk and seal every tiny little crack. This part is super important.
4) Get a carpet remnant and put it down. Just get it to where your drums won't move it. Your kit will eventually tear it so be ready for that. I use a drum rug over the carpet. They're pretty heavy duty usually.
5) Once I get here I'm going to try it out. If I need to foam the walls or something...I'll do it then. My friend has a setup like this though and it seems to do well so who knows.
1) Take some C or Z purlin and screw it into the current walls...you want as little contact as possible WHILE still making the structure sound. I'm doing mine ~18" apart.
2) Sheetrock (maybe plywood would work) the purlin to make basically "another room". The purlin will sort of 'absorb' the sound in a way and the inner walls will soak up a good bit as well.
3) Caulk and seal every tiny little crack. This part is super important.
4) Get a carpet remnant and put it down. Just get it to where your drums won't move it. Your kit will eventually tear it so be ready for that. I use a drum rug over the carpet. They're pretty heavy duty usually.
5) Once I get here I'm going to try it out. If I need to foam the walls or something...I'll do it then. My friend has a setup like this though and it seems to do well so who knows.
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Posted on 9/24/12 at 11:59 am to Srbtiger06
If you're going for cheap then just caulk the everliving shite out of it and make it as air-tight as possible. That alone will help. After that just get some carpet remnants and staple them up.
Posted on 9/24/12 at 12:07 pm to Srbtiger06
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Srbtiger06
I read about the "room-within-a-room" thing a long time ago in Modern Drummer magazine. According to the author of the article, the sound dampening was incredible, so much so that the kit was barely audible from just outside the room.
Seems like a lot of painstaking work, though. I'd be interested to know how that turns out for ya...
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