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9.3X10.2 Drum Room

Started by Mr. Meoff on 20 August 2008. 2 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 11116.

Mr. Meoff
Summary: I was about to hit record, had already been warming up, and the neighbor came bangin’ on my door, "Stop that garbage!" Needless to say I am a drummer, but how rude. At the moment I had my drums in the living room. I am in a stand-alone house, 50's brick/masonry home, bout 1000sq ft, corner house, off a semi busy street. The house has shiz for windows. The drawing is the 2nd/spare bedroom. There is bout 200ft of back yard before I hit the neighbor who complained. BTW, just moved to this place 2.5 months ago. I want to deaden the room enough to be neighbor friendly and sound as best as it can for recording. It would be nice to play at those creative moments, no matter what time! NOTE: I am renting, so I don’t want to do anything permanent, more modular. I already have a ton of 2X2 Auralex pyramid foam. Could probably cover the entire room, but don’t want anything permanent. I could spend $500 and pretty handy with tools and material. Room: 9.3'X10.2' Ceiling: 7.9' 2 outer walls brick outside, insulated dry wall inside 2 interior walls insulated dry wall 1 door 1 closet 1 a/c vent above door 8'X8' drum riser, 4.5" high, with office carpet tiles on top, rubber material bottom. The room is carpeted too... The spare bedroom door is actually solid!, not studio quality, but decent. The house is built and insulated well, just the windows suck! I cranked my PA and other stereos (Airport Express rules), and couldn't hear much of anything outside. I have spent some time reading here, gearslutz, and homerecording.com and about the materials below: 703/Roxul Acoustic Cotton audimute sound sheets DIY Bass Traps various sound barrier materials, MLV, foam/mlv Absorption vs. isolation vs. soundproofing. My ideas: …maybe hang a few bass traps, in the two for corners of the room farthest from the door. ...window plugs (of some kind). My windows are roughly 4'X3' & recessed about 4". Ideas? ...maybe hang bass traps over windows and/or stack around the drum riser? Cotton Acoustic, Mineral Wool, or Fiberglass. Anyone build plugs for their windows? Material? Drawing? I would prefer not to screw the window plugs into the frame or wall. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks for reading! Best, Meoff
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