Hey guys,
Turning my room into somewhat of a "garage rock band" set-up for live rehearsal as well as recording. My room is about 10 x 15ft with a closet that goes about 3 ft in where I have my desk and computer set up.
I've been watching "Music Studio Setup and Acoustics" with Bob Oswinski on Lynda and he went over the basics. The most effective way to significantly decrease the sound heard outside my room would be increasing wall mass with dry wall, extra insulation, a room inside a room, .etc .etc.
But I won't be able to do that- building or modifying on my current wall. However, I figure I can atleast fix up the little things. Also note this house is close to 100 years old- and in the photos the floors look a bit dirty but thats cause I just moved around a bunch of stuff haha.
ALBUM WITH PHOTOS: Roomfix - Album on Imgur
So right now I have a huge door with an old window on top of it. I hear that sound travels right through windows but it's wedged in their and I cant seem to get it out. Over the months as an amateur I just shoved blankets, t-shirts, sweaters and general into these little cracks with minimal success. I've been considering packing some sort of foam/pillows over it.
Another thing is the small cracks between my floor and walls- I took the carpeting out 2 or 3 years ago which left a 0.5 to 2 inch gap all along the bottom of the wall. Now I have 4 walls but realistically 2 are the outsides of the house, and the other half of one (other half is closet) also reaches the other side of the house. So basically the 1 wall (and corner w/ door pictured in image below) is where most of these gaps are.
So I'm just looking for any tips or advice to deal with these small orifices since I can't dramatically re-construct my walls. In addition to this I'm looking into what I could hang on my wall to kill sound as well but we'll get to that later. I'm thinking I could use some sort of filling here?
Any information is appreciated guys. Thanks.
Turning my room into somewhat of a "garage rock band" set-up for live rehearsal as well as recording. My room is about 10 x 15ft with a closet that goes about 3 ft in where I have my desk and computer set up.
I've been watching "Music Studio Setup and Acoustics" with Bob Oswinski on Lynda and he went over the basics. The most effective way to significantly decrease the sound heard outside my room would be increasing wall mass with dry wall, extra insulation, a room inside a room, .etc .etc.
But I won't be able to do that- building or modifying on my current wall. However, I figure I can atleast fix up the little things. Also note this house is close to 100 years old- and in the photos the floors look a bit dirty but thats cause I just moved around a bunch of stuff haha.
ALBUM WITH PHOTOS: Roomfix - Album on Imgur
So right now I have a huge door with an old window on top of it. I hear that sound travels right through windows but it's wedged in their and I cant seem to get it out. Over the months as an amateur I just shoved blankets, t-shirts, sweaters and general into these little cracks with minimal success. I've been considering packing some sort of foam/pillows over it.
Another thing is the small cracks between my floor and walls- I took the carpeting out 2 or 3 years ago which left a 0.5 to 2 inch gap all along the bottom of the wall. Now I have 4 walls but realistically 2 are the outsides of the house, and the other half of one (other half is closet) also reaches the other side of the house. So basically the 1 wall (and corner w/ door pictured in image below) is where most of these gaps are.
So I'm just looking for any tips or advice to deal with these small orifices since I can't dramatically re-construct my walls. In addition to this I'm looking into what I could hang on my wall to kill sound as well but we'll get to that later. I'm thinking I could use some sort of filling here?
Any information is appreciated guys. Thanks.