sound proofing
ok, so i need to sound proof my friends basement, we’re starting to have a lot of parties there. rock shows, electronic shows etc. its actually pretty sweet.
but anyways. do you guys have any ideas on how to sound proof for cheap? lol most foam cost like 35 dollars a sq foot. to expensive for a college house lol
rug/ carpeting might help
anything that will dampen the sound. but keep in mind this also affects the rooms acoustics
Finished basement???
unfinished
concrete floors and walls and an open ceiling
sounds like my basement. giant echo chamber.
well, not a lot of echo but everything is a bit amplified.
like i said, rugs and carpeting and such hung up along the walls and on the floor should help.
at least on the far walls
the problem is though, outside.
its not really really loud. but he lives downtown duluth, and the speakers are next to the wall so it rattles the outside and you can kinda hear it
Rockwool insulation kicks ass if the ceiling isn’t insulated yet. Might be able to convince the homeowner to foot the bill for the insulation because it is expensive. He gets free labor, insulation from a cold room, and it doubles as a fire barrier and sound barrier. If not you could get some cheap sheets of cork board and lay em up against the walls when u decide to rage. Be surprised how much it will dampen the sound.
and rage we will 
thanks for the ideas guys
That foam your talking about is for treating a rooms acoustics and NOT soundproofing - the foam will do very very very very very little (to nothing at all) about stopping the sound from escaping the room.
If the basement is truely a basement in the sense that the whole thing is underground you don’t have to worry about treating the walls as the sand around the house is going to do a fab job of stopping the sound. You will however want to use a couple thick layers of soundproofing gyprock on the ceiling to stop the sound going through the house and escaping out that way.
its only half way underground
Then you will need to line the walls with soundproofing gyprock too, or for the cheap alternative build up sand around the outside of the walls. You will still have to deal with the ceiling however.
The only thing that stops sound is mass, or the complete lack of mass - ie a vacume, but that gets expensive !
Salvation Army…cheap mattresses/pillows…tear out foam layer. Do it in the parking lot and set fire to the remains wooOOOoooo
Pillage around warehouses for packing materials and other discarded boxes.
Probably won’t pass a fire inspection but can act as temporary fix.
end.ghetto
Again that would be for more sound treatment than soundproofing… if you filled the matress with sandhowever you would be onto something !
Like i said earlier, soundproofing is all about mass not soft furnishings - treating acoustics is all about soft furnishings.
wouldn’t the foam absorb the sound thus stopping it?
maybe not the mattress foam, not as much
Nope sheer mass absorbs foam, the foam is simply there to help reflect the sound off at different angles thus improving the acoustics of the room.
This is a very very common mistake to get soundproofing confused with room acoustic treatment - treating your room for stopping sound from getting out and treating the acoustics of your room are both handled in very different ways.
Love that. “Hey you want to go to a half way underground party?”
Playing britney… mixed with psytrance
and the bro’s walk in and…:
bro: ay djay, u gott any womp?
dj: uh? i dont follow
bro: not follow, play
dj: gtfo out my face with your brostep
One very simple thing I did in my basement was build floor-to-ceiling panels at opposing angles on the walls so there was no 90 degree angles. The are covered in a layer of foam insulation and carpet. It does the job fairly well. I also put some sound-deadening insulation in the ceiling to help out some more.
Remember in a situation like this, soundproofing is impossible. What your biggest enemy is the vibration induced in the walls and floor from the ceiling. My solution completely eliminates echos and thus helps the sound not resonate through the house as much.
Another thing to consider is putting a few layers foam and carpet under your sub, this should help the transmission of bass into the floor and further reduce the resonance.
Cheers and I hope this helps.
how are the speakers mounted?
my stereo used to piss off the girls that lived next to me, so i put foam insulation underneath and behind them, and the bass subsided throught eh wall.
just a thought if youre in a position where you can “pad the speakers” so to speak