I need help please..

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Hi,

I'm sorry for the stupid question you're just about to read.

Basically I live on the top floor apartment. I'm looking for something to lay down on the floor where I jam to dampen the sound of acoustic guitar and vocals..
I've read that alot of people recommend auralex but I couldnt find any sort of mat on their website. Maybe I just don't know what i'm looking for.

I apologise again for my noobness but I'd appreciate your help.
Thanks.
 
Good luck; to stop much in the way of sound from leaving a room, the ENTIRE surface area of the room needs to be de-coupled from the main structure; otherwise, you get what is called flanking noise - this is where your sound vibrates the wallboard, the wallboard vibrates the stud frame, the stud frame vibrates the floor and any more frames below you, those frames all vibrate their respective wallboard, and the sound you made on the third floor makes it all the way to the basement...

The stuff you're talking about at Auralex is called Sheet Blok; it's what is known as MLV, which stands for Mass Loaded Vinyl - it is expensive, not really meant to be walked on, and may deaden the part of your sound that wants to travel directly through the floor, but won't do much of anything to the sound leaking out the REST of the room.

For your purposes, something more like a vocal booth might be the way to go - at least you would have SOME isolation in ALL directions... Steve
 
Not really, because sound can travel to the walls and around the platform, into the structure of the floor.

Those platforms are generally to reduce the vibration of an amp on the floor, or a drumkit, so when you mic the amp/kit, you get less vibrations out of whatever the amp/kit is sitting on.

But it won't really solve your particular problem. The only way of ensuring sound remains above the people below you will require serious construction efforts, which I imagine you won't want to do, considering you rent.

You might consider something along the lines of a Pod or its equivilent, this way you can still record the guitar without having to have a speaker going, and they sound fairly good. Vocals will be more difficult, maybe recording the vocalist and both of you wear headphones?
 
i have to "sound deaden" my pre existing wood floor as much as possable and my landord is ready to pay for the treatment as part of an investment in the live room of my studio. i am looking at mlv and acoustiblock as a thick rubber. The studio is about 2000 sq feet. The people below are open durring business hours and can hear some music but its not that loud yet. I want to hold rehersals in this space durring business hours and do recordings. I do not want to make little rooms. I am ready to silicone plastic down to make the floor air tight, lay mlv or acoustic rubber down, then a layer of duraclick down which is snap in pergo that looks like nice wood. i want to try to keep the cost as low as possable for my land lord who is also a friend. i understand that "soundproofing" is almost a rediculas term but what do you think about my idea here? i am in an awfull hurry because i have rehearsal and recording booked and neighbors are complaining. if you can help me understand what rubber to use or what the best one is for the price. Also if anyone has any experience with a certain soundproofing company good or bad it might be helpfull. i am trying not to construct a whole new floor beyond my current idea even though i know it is the right way because i dont want him to spend 10k on my floor.

thanks in advance and please excuse my spelling as im in a hurry on someone elses computer
 
Well we know he cant redo the entire room so why not build a type of isolation box inside the room. That would atleast help some right?

something like this:

http://auralex.com/category_max-wall/mwvb.jpg

or this:

http://auralex.com/category_max-wall/mw831.jpg

but only making it a room inside of a room? Really he could make it even better by getting 4 inch 703 (or more?) and building big panels and placing them around the room and then treating the floor somehow? Floating floor such as what Auralex offers for drums?

What do ya think? I'm just thinking of what can be done to help absorb the sound without rebuilding the whole apartment.

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These are all good ideas, but expen$ive. One would think that, by the time he has invested the bucks into various modes of treatments, that he could probably have paid less money by moving into a more pricey apartment on a ground floor elsewhere.

But if he wants to stay put: how about hanging his rehearsal space from the ceiling? Some wire, bolts, 2x4s, plywood, and you have it: decoupled from the floor.
 
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