Hey guys,
I have been building a drum recording room in my basement and trying to isolate the sound as best as possible so it isn't heard from the rest of my house. I did a really cheesy job with everything being that I am broke and on a tight budget, but I am hoping it works. Right now it is basically about a 15 x 8 foot section of a corner of the basement that I built a ceiling over (denim insulation, building foam sandwiched between the ceiling boards and 1/2 sheet rock then acoustic foam over that). The way the basement is built, it is sort of a room in a room. The finished portion of the basement is bordered by the boiler area of the basement which is unfinished. Basically my drum area has 1 exterior wall, 2 walls facing the boiler area and the fourth wall I planned to use hanging sound blankets so I can take them down to still use my workout equipment when not recording.
Anyway, I have done a lot of research and I keep hearing over and over again that nothing but mass blocks sound. People trash talk things like sound blankets and acoustic foam saying they just dampen sound in the room but don't do anything to block sound. This is discouraging to hear, because I really can't rebuild the room or add sheetrock ,and sound blankets and foam are basically all that I can afford.
Here is the thing though....I used AudiMute sound blankets in my parents house to block sound from disturbing the rest of the house for years and they work amazing. The room was built off an exterior wall, so the double french style glass doors are probably the main place that sound enters from. I hung three audimute blankets over the inside of the door, and you just barely hear us jamming away at full volume from inside of the house where as without it, it was almost unbearable for anyone trying to watch TV in the living room. These blankets definitely do seem to BLOCK sound, despite everything I have read. Granted, they needed to be layered up about two deep at least before it really helped significantly...so I guess there is your mass.
I am just wondering, if this is the case, wouldn't hanging these on my walls in the basement/basement door be a good thing to keep sound in the room? There is no insulation in the interior walls so the sound goes right through them and into the larger portion of the basement. You still hear a lot of drum noise from upstairs, but it almost sounds like most of it is coming through to the unfinished area, up the stairs and through the basement door and not through the floor where I figured the problem would be worse. How about find a way to suspend one from the ceiling to help block sound or also help trap it between the blanket and the acoustic foam, would this work?
Thanks! and sorry for the long post!
I have been building a drum recording room in my basement and trying to isolate the sound as best as possible so it isn't heard from the rest of my house. I did a really cheesy job with everything being that I am broke and on a tight budget, but I am hoping it works. Right now it is basically about a 15 x 8 foot section of a corner of the basement that I built a ceiling over (denim insulation, building foam sandwiched between the ceiling boards and 1/2 sheet rock then acoustic foam over that). The way the basement is built, it is sort of a room in a room. The finished portion of the basement is bordered by the boiler area of the basement which is unfinished. Basically my drum area has 1 exterior wall, 2 walls facing the boiler area and the fourth wall I planned to use hanging sound blankets so I can take them down to still use my workout equipment when not recording.
Anyway, I have done a lot of research and I keep hearing over and over again that nothing but mass blocks sound. People trash talk things like sound blankets and acoustic foam saying they just dampen sound in the room but don't do anything to block sound. This is discouraging to hear, because I really can't rebuild the room or add sheetrock ,and sound blankets and foam are basically all that I can afford.
Here is the thing though....I used AudiMute sound blankets in my parents house to block sound from disturbing the rest of the house for years and they work amazing. The room was built off an exterior wall, so the double french style glass doors are probably the main place that sound enters from. I hung three audimute blankets over the inside of the door, and you just barely hear us jamming away at full volume from inside of the house where as without it, it was almost unbearable for anyone trying to watch TV in the living room. These blankets definitely do seem to BLOCK sound, despite everything I have read. Granted, they needed to be layered up about two deep at least before it really helped significantly...so I guess there is your mass.
I am just wondering, if this is the case, wouldn't hanging these on my walls in the basement/basement door be a good thing to keep sound in the room? There is no insulation in the interior walls so the sound goes right through them and into the larger portion of the basement. You still hear a lot of drum noise from upstairs, but it almost sounds like most of it is coming through to the unfinished area, up the stairs and through the basement door and not through the floor where I figured the problem would be worse. How about find a way to suspend one from the ceiling to help block sound or also help trap it between the blanket and the acoustic foam, would this work?
Thanks! and sorry for the long post!
