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junkyardearl
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My band is practicing and will be recording in a room that has a number of problems. I'm hoping you guys can help me to fix at least some of them.
The room is a garage that was converted into a bedroom by our bass player's brother-in-law. It is an old house and the garage is seperate from the house. He put sheetrock up on all the walls, but never bothered with insolation. The room is about 12' x 14' x 7.5' high. The more narrow walls are the origional front and back of the garage. The front is sheet rock, 4" of air, and then plywood, which covers the garage door opening. The back wall has a washer and drier and a queen size mattress up on its side against it. Behind the mattress is a closet that's about 6' wide and 5' deep full of old clothing. The mattress and the old clothes are the only sound deadening material that I can think of in the room. The other two walls are just sheetrock, 4" of air and the outside wall. Standing outside of one of these walls is almost the same as being inside.
I was thinking about a couple of projects to help the sound out. I talked about one of them in this post... https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=34475 and the other is building helmholtz resonators using pegboard that the retail store I work at was going to throw away. I have two pieces of pegboard that are 57 inches x 16 inches and are 1/4 inch deep. I was hoping to make the resonatos in boxes much like the project in the link, so I can take them with me, and it wouldn't be very nice to add this stuff perminately to the garage, since it belongs to the bass player's mom.
The last big problem is a stud in the celling. There is one stud that shakes like a mo fo and makes a lot of nosie when a "B" in the bass clef is played. Is there any easy way to fix that?
Hopefully one or two of you can help me out here! This is all we have really.
~james
The room is a garage that was converted into a bedroom by our bass player's brother-in-law. It is an old house and the garage is seperate from the house. He put sheetrock up on all the walls, but never bothered with insolation. The room is about 12' x 14' x 7.5' high. The more narrow walls are the origional front and back of the garage. The front is sheet rock, 4" of air, and then plywood, which covers the garage door opening. The back wall has a washer and drier and a queen size mattress up on its side against it. Behind the mattress is a closet that's about 6' wide and 5' deep full of old clothing. The mattress and the old clothes are the only sound deadening material that I can think of in the room. The other two walls are just sheetrock, 4" of air and the outside wall. Standing outside of one of these walls is almost the same as being inside.
I was thinking about a couple of projects to help the sound out. I talked about one of them in this post... https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=34475 and the other is building helmholtz resonators using pegboard that the retail store I work at was going to throw away. I have two pieces of pegboard that are 57 inches x 16 inches and are 1/4 inch deep. I was hoping to make the resonatos in boxes much like the project in the link, so I can take them with me, and it wouldn't be very nice to add this stuff perminately to the garage, since it belongs to the bass player's mom.
The last big problem is a stud in the celling. There is one stud that shakes like a mo fo and makes a lot of nosie when a "B" in the bass clef is played. Is there any easy way to fix that?
Hopefully one or two of you can help me out here! This is all we have really.
~james
