spitzer
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In another thread, it was suggested that perhaps I should move to the countryside, referring to possibly disturbing close neighbours by playing drums (drum set, aka... LOUD. Peaks over 120 dB.) in an urban or suburban area. Now I'll try to skip everything irrelevant and get to the technical part.
In my mind, the countryside is WORSE, because NOTHING in the environment helps. The closest neighbour is perhaps 10 times farther away than in the city, across a river even .. but theres nothing but wide open air in between.
An option would be to place the drum set in a log cabin. Picture something like this: http://cowboyloghomes.com/wp-conten...-home-bath-house-stained-cowboy-log-homes.jpg , except NOT with a full concrete base. But with a floating, and relatively thin wooden floor.
I have long been wondering could anything like this actually be realistic. Log walls about 10 cm thick, I imagine, are massive enough to block a fair amount, but how much exactly I don't know. The fact that the sound would project to all 6 primary directions with no obstacles except the occasional tree here and there presents a completely different problem space than a concrete walled and floored urban garage or basement.
So. The reality would be a room about 3 x 3 x 2 metres, with 10 cm thick log walls, in the corner, so two outside walls. Floor and ceiling with basically zero blocking compared to the walls. A reduction such that the sound level measured from outside would be around 60 dB SPL would be required. What has occupied my mind is: is this feasible? (If the total cost would be many thousands of dollars for example... it would be possible but, to me, not feasible.)
(A simple approach: line the walls with 50 mm rockwool batts, strengthen the floor, float the drums, add insulation to the ceiling and add a layer of 15 mm plasterboard or drywall. Sounds reasonable, but would it work well enough?)
Sincerely,
In my mind, the countryside is WORSE, because NOTHING in the environment helps. The closest neighbour is perhaps 10 times farther away than in the city, across a river even .. but theres nothing but wide open air in between.
An option would be to place the drum set in a log cabin. Picture something like this: http://cowboyloghomes.com/wp-conten...-home-bath-house-stained-cowboy-log-homes.jpg , except NOT with a full concrete base. But with a floating, and relatively thin wooden floor.
I have long been wondering could anything like this actually be realistic. Log walls about 10 cm thick, I imagine, are massive enough to block a fair amount, but how much exactly I don't know. The fact that the sound would project to all 6 primary directions with no obstacles except the occasional tree here and there presents a completely different problem space than a concrete walled and floored urban garage or basement.
So. The reality would be a room about 3 x 3 x 2 metres, with 10 cm thick log walls, in the corner, so two outside walls. Floor and ceiling with basically zero blocking compared to the walls. A reduction such that the sound level measured from outside would be around 60 dB SPL would be required. What has occupied my mind is: is this feasible? (If the total cost would be many thousands of dollars for example... it would be possible but, to me, not feasible.)
(A simple approach: line the walls with 50 mm rockwool batts, strengthen the floor, float the drums, add insulation to the ceiling and add a layer of 15 mm plasterboard or drywall. Sounds reasonable, but would it work well enough?)
Sincerely,