How to Soundproof YOUR OWN noise from escaping the room!
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Soundproofing a room is a common concern, typically tied to reducing noise from neighbors. However, sometimes you need to contain noise generated within a room. This tutorial explores DIY methods tailored to address internal noise challenges, different from traditional soundproofing for external noise. Understanding these nuances is crucial for creating a quieter living space, whether dealing with neighborly disturbances or minimizing the impact of your activities.
This video provides insights into innovative DIY techniques for containing internal noise. From strategic placement of acoustic panels to using specialized sound-absorbing materials, the tutorial goes beyond conventional approaches for external noise.
Implementing these techniques creates a quieter environment that minimizes sound transmission beyond your room, considering those sharing the living space. In summary, this tutorial offers practical DIY solutions for soundproofing a room from internal noise sources, fostering a quieter and more comfortable living environment.
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Can the double layer glass windows and these materials and the sound deafting curtains can stop or reduce the level of thunder sounds of thunders that fall right out side my house or my room?
I just followed you on Amazon
Can a foam or bubble-type insulation layer, either inside wall bays, or, surface mounted on walls & ceiling, meaningfully reduce sound thru walls/ceilings?
If surface-mounted, will those meaningfully reduce sound echoing?
How would moving-blanket wall & ceiling coverings compare with Reflectix or similar coverings, to meaningfully reduce sound echoing & transmission? (Thinking the Reflectix-type material is lighter weight, easier to handle, & adds reflective radiant barrier to help room-temp?)
Can those glass window covers be mounted on hinges, to keep the windows operable? It looks like those glass window additions would also help with room temp preservation? (Better than shrink-wrapping windows?)
Every apartment should be soundproof this way on apartment buildings!
I completely agree!
Exactly why I’m watching
Why I'm watching this now cause I want to block my neighbors noise as well as mine cause I don't want to hear them and I'd like to watch T.V and music without having to wear headphones 24/7 just so it doesn't bleed to my parents room or the other apartment, cause we hear everything
I enjoy your videos because you address a vanishing commodity...privacy and quiet. A lot of people don't understand the negative consequences of unwanted noise and how it affects their mental health. Keep up the good work!
In Sweden we have in general better sound proofing but I'm so happy to now live in a house instead of a flat.
No more hearing our neighbours arguing. Once we had an episode of hearing an alarm clock going off half an hour earlier than we were going up ourselves and no one was turning it off. Turned out to be a flat in a parallel stairwell to ours in a flat diagonal to ours.
They were very apologetic when they realised. Their kid had been admitted to hospital for a couple of weeks so they hadn't slept at home. So understandable but really damaging for our sleep.
Your channel convinced me to make my room soundproof so I can work, meditate and actually have the time for myself instead of hearing my neighbours childeren cry and have fun 💀. Will start today, wish me luck
Best of luck mister Spaceman! 😎
Been 4 months give us a update does it work
@@Stbanzz It does work. I moved out of the small apartment and into a house very recently through so I don't really need It anymore, but I can only recommend
I can hear my entire roommate's conversation and vice versa. I don't mind hearing muffled sound but I just dontt want them to hear word-for -word.
For me my bedroom is right next to my parents bathroom and I can hear them very clearly whenever theyre in there and I don't think it helps that their bathroom makes a lot of echo
Maybe its the door leaking sound. If so - use sealing tape to seal all air gaps.
If its the wall, your go-to solution is to make mineral wool+drywall sandwich.
Reminds me of that scene from *_Office Space_* where the two roommates are able to have a perfectly coherent conversation with one another... from separate apartments.
Daily inspirational quote: "It adds re-- It adds ree-- I had gum surgery." Gonna live my life by this one
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Yo this video couldn't have come out at a better time. Been looking for a solution for this that doesn't involve "just be quieter"
Yo I've been watching your videos for the past week trying to find ways to deaden/soundproof my room. I've been mostly finding your videos helpful with considering other options. Thank you and I appreciate your insightful videos!
Best of luck on your project!! 😊
Very concise, thorough and helpful. Thank you!
What about the ceiling to keep sound transferring from a downstairs unit to the unit directly above ?
Perfect I rage at video games and I want to dampen my sound from escaping and not bug the neighbors
This is extremely useful, thanks. I'm a soprano vocalist and live in a shared house. Thus, I am very conscious of how loud I must be when practicing 😅 and have been looking for a solution to stop as much sound leaking from my room as possible for ages! There are some really interesting suggestions here. Just one point, would you mind please describing how to install the acoustical sealant, weather-strip and moving blanket around the door/wall? I'm actually totally blind so do not have any visual reference for how you carry out these examples in the video. Thanks again for the great content.
Hi Laura-sandy! send me an email at info@soundprofguide.com and I will respond to your questions in detail.
Thanks! I am living in a university dorm with walls quite thin and looking for ways to not get any more noise complain haha. I will try going with some acoustic foam/panel when I have enough butget.
Best of luck!
stop getting loud dates would help
@@freddykoopmans6985 bold of you to assume I get laid
Very useful video! Thanks a lot! One question: does high density of acoustic foam makes a difference? I found 20kg/m3 - 30kg/m3.
Hey a fellow cyclist; noticed all the Wahoo gear! :D
Great content by the way, thanks for all the useful info.
I need to sound proof an apartment, and the walls are plaster/drywall with barely anything between each apartment. I can't really screw anything in, so I'm looking for advice. I have neighbors who have complained I laugh too loud, but I can't tell how loud I have to be.
That sucks. I feel for you :(
I play piano and sing and I've gotten complaints. I respect noise hours and don't go for more than an hour. But yeah, living in an apartment is always a challenge when dealing with roommates or neighbors. I've been using blankets around my doorway and tested it. It's not perfect, but it does muffle the sound more
Very informative thanks
Great video, thanks!
Very detailed and explained in a very simple understandable language 🤘🏻
Acoustic treatment and soundproofing are two completely different things like you said yourself. Do not start with acoustic treatment if you don’t want the sound to escape the room, because it will. You will first need to add as much mass as possible in the form of a reflective wall that is airtight and preferably decoupled from the main wall. Only AFTER that you can do acoustic treatment (purely to remove the impact that the room has on your speakers).
I sing and have 2 roommates So I need to soundproof my room so that the noise doesn't escape outside. I'm pretty new to this soundproofing stuff so any suggestions? what should I do?
@@sleeanisnotlean Hire a professional. Soundproofing is very difficult to DIY.
@@Fubuki43 I don't really have the money to do so. I'm a student. I also live in a rental.
I sing as a hobby. not good enough to be a professional or anything :'')
Still thank you for the reply.
@@sleeanisnotlean Ahh okay, well that sounds fun! In that case, just try to keep in mind that sound isolation is about preventing the sound from leaving the room. So it can help to close doors and even close any holes or strips of air that might let the sound out. Stuff like foam and acoustic treatment won’t do anything for sound isolation, those are only useful to make the room sound nicer on the inside. You need thick walls with a lot of mass. So technically speaking it will help if you can somehow make your walls thicker by adding a layer of mass. Hope that helps!
@@Fubuki43packing blankets hung on the walls is probably the cheapest for a rental.
Is it worth it to put acoustic panels in your garage? For a golf simulator setup. Would the garage door offset the panels? Trying to gauge if it would be worth it
Thank you
Great video! When upgrading a room with additional plasterboard, can I use foam underlay for laminate flooring between plasterboards instead of massloaded vinyl? Just wondering if there will be a significant difference between both.
I am trying to turn a walk in closet into a vocal booth. It is located in my room upstairs and I would like for it to be mostly isolated keeping the sound of my vocals from escaping the closet so that people won't be able to hear downstairs.
Great videos thank you! Could you address the heating and cooling being affected around the windows?
I'm subscribing your channel for guidance of soundproofing my room for my upcoming buy saxophone in the future... But right now, I'll just take notes of your useful advices... I'd knew that noise complaint is inevitable for musicians because in order to "perfecting" the music skill, the musician needs to practice every single hours daily until the music skills has polished...And so, loud music is no joke and could potentially disturb the neighbour... And disturb the neighbour is the last thing for a musician wants... Not only you'll get reported to the authority by your noise disturbed neighbour but also could "confiscated" your entire music equipments permanently for good... And that's the last thing that I want...
I really like your straight forward approach 👍🏽👊🏽What do you think of Sonoboard and then drywall instead of mass loaded vinyl(??) - it’s doing the job in my drum room☮️
What if you attached the acoustic foam to the acoustic panels? Would the effect be amplified?
In theory; yes, because you add more surface area, but I would suggest putting the foam on the exposed wall between the panels, or a specific spot that needs extra treatment.
Very helpful. Thank you
Thanks!
Thanks Jay!
Didn’t all your previous videos say that foam doesn’t do anything? I must have misunderstood?
Can you explain to me if this works to avoid the sound of people clapping?
Great information ❤❤❤❤
Here is a scenario, say I want to rent a mall store location. The location doesn't have any doors and I can't add any doors. It does have a garage door that is only closed during closing times. I want to turn this space into a small arcade. How well would sound deadening panels and/or foam work at keeping arcade sounds from bleeding out into the rest of the mall?
Do you recommend filling the walls with acoustic panels? What is your take on the acoustic hexigonal panels
thanks.. i watched the other video you had,,, couldn't comment there,,, so did it here
Great video ❤🎉
Hi. I got a basement drum room which i want to sound proof for my neighbours next door. I was thinking of stacking leftover glass wool insulation on the walls, along with hanging either moving blankets or the acoustic foam. Is that a good idea? Any tips?
Awesome videos! I play drums in my shed in my backyard and I want to be able to play and have my neighbors not be able to hear from inside their house. I'm assuming that would only be possible if I coat the walls in mass-loaded vinyl? Foam panels and moving blankets probably wouldn't suffice I'd imagine :(
Okay so my AC furnace is very LOUD which is really annoying..It’s put behind the wall where my couch is and it’s beyond annoying..Parents can’t take the noise..Please tell me what can i do to get rid of the noise? cheap methods please!!
Thanks
Why didn't you mention anything about the ceiling?
I am looking for a way to "sound proof / sound deafen" my place, I have an electronic drumkit and I live in an apartment, luckily on the bottom floor so I dont necessarily have to think about downstairs, now I have no clue which kind of deafening method if any at all can do this kind of thing.
Basically what I need is for the click clacking of the plastic and somewhat the thumping of the kick pedal to be deafened.
Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
same! I'd like to practice my singing, but my room's quite next to my neighbour's bedroom and I don't want to disturb them. My neighbourhood's pretty quiet too, so its extra embarrassing for me to practice loudly. Advices appreciated!!
What did you end up doing?? I'm in the same shoes as you
I practised on an elevated stance that a guy made for me. Basically a frame of wood filled with mineral wool and a nice rug on top.
Also, it seems like rubber flooring also helps
I wish you sent a link on where YOU got your acoustic panels
I'm in an old apartment with plaster walls and I have a litter of large breed pups coming unexpectedly. I have a room for them but it's attached to another apartment, someone below also. I need your advice on the cheapest way to keep a litter sound down from disturbing neighbour's to the side and below. Please Help!!
Got any opinions on SONOpan as the layer you sandwhich between the second layer of dryway? It's supposed to be as good or better than MLV for about $30/4'x8' sheet
if i were to define the benefits of buying an extra window panel in my own words, it would be something like this... if you already have a single panel window, an extra panel will improve sound proofing by about 2x. having a double panel window and buying an extra panel would only improve soundproofing by about 1.5x which would be a noticeable drop in efficacy and in that sense, value of purchase would also drop just as much.
do flat acoustic panels work? those hexagonal shape ones on amazon?
Do Ceiling Eaves reduce noise from the outside?
Loving the information 🎉🎉🎉 10:12
My cousin Wang Suk Kok in China struggles with noise. He could not do much about it.
we are uk and our doors more or less look like urs lol but just the normal two panel variants
It’d be great if there was a written overview of everything discussed.?.
What would be better for sound blocking: Using two layers of 1 lb / sqr foot MLV and glueing them together with green glue, or just using one layer of 2lb per sqr feet MLV?
Whatever option is cheapest.
does a brick wall help with sound escaping from a room ?
What is the accent that it sounds like you're trying to hold back? Do you live in the Caribbean?
Or is it from the gum surgery?
Haha no not from the gum surgery. I’m from east coast Canada. First language is French, English is my second language. 😊
I've seen hexagonal acoustic foams, do they have the same efficiency as the egg cardboax style?
It's probably more a decorative thing. It's all about the material's surface area absorbing the soundwaves.
So I need to get on Amazon the 2" acoustic panels for my walls in my room cuz I play guitar and want to practice with a little privacy and to not disturb my Dad in his room or the living room. I did order a sound "reducing" curtain to put over my door (not sound "proof" to keep SOME of the noise from escaping out the door. Hopefully this will help a little. Thank you handsome
A sound “reducing” blanket is definitely better than nothing! It will also help absorb a bit of the guitar noise. Best of luck! 🤞
@@soundproofguideSo I got the curtain for the door but it doesn’t cover the bottom gap so I’m going to have to get a door sweep as you recommend, probably tomorrow. I also ordered the 2” acoustic panels and should be here tonight from Amazon Prime and I’ll probably install them tomorrow as well. I hope this works enough so I can sing and play and practice in my room without disturbing the old man 😅 Thanks again for this video, I keep coming back to it lol. ❤
@@no_onein2024 Awesome! I'm sure the door sweep will help a lot! Best of luck!!
@@soundproofguide Do you also have a page on instagram or tik tok? (I hate tik tok, I'm asking more for instagram)
@@soundproofguideQuestion: I think I should get one acoustic panel for one small wall area. Any recommendation on a decent brand? Also, I just got my acoustic panels and they were compressed in the package EXTRA well. A video on Amazon said it can take a day or TWO to deflate or decompress??? If that’s the case can they be in stacks (like 4 stacks) or is the right way to lay them all out and not stack them on top of each other??? Cuz honestly I don’t have room :/
If you want to stop noise coming in.
1) rip gyprock of wall frame.
2) completely water proof and seal inner wall cavity with black plastic tarp and wet area waterproofer paint
3) use black !! To reduce Future mould issue
4) re apply gyprock
5) fill inner wall cavity with water.
6) monitor for leaks.
Sound gets verr very muddled and absorbed by water
Also note.
I'm kidding, do not do this.
You will somehow fk it and create a extremely dangerous red mould spore issue and it's deadly.
However just food for thoughts lol
will this be good for streaming and music ? so im able to be a fair bit loud when on stream or recording vocals
Yes.
I have a stupid barn door in my room that has at least 1½ inch gap from the wall all around :/
I HATE those style doors. They need to stop using them in hotel rooms when the bed is 3 feet away
@@metube3489 seriously! One hotel I stayed at had a barn door for the bathroom door 🤦🏻♀️
@@Diamond-Fox right ! Good luck going to a romantic hotel stay with your girl you haven't been dating very long
I’m not the smartest but can it block the noise of a subwoofers vibrations?
nope, the low freq are very hard to block.
Him: "just go outside and listen"
Me: "no way im gonna touch grass"
I want to prevent the sound from me in my basement office from waking my family up at night.
Where can I get the 2 inch acoustic foam ? because the link you provided is 1 inch thick .
Will this block outside noise ?????
Can you put acoustic foam on windows?
Yes, but they might degrade quickly if UV light can reach the back of the material, so the suggestion is to back it with a uv graded material.
Rockwool.. done
Best of luck!
@@soundproofguide through a combination of space, purpose and budget it is actually the best for my situation. And I hate working with glasfiber Insulation, so I gave myself the present of not doing that 😁
Any drummer over here taking notes?
For drums specifically a floor isolation platform to prevent vibrations through the floor is key.
Dose Styrofoam work??
a matter of dosage. will do for stopping some of the reflections but not really soundproofing, which takes sheer mass or varying densities. Guess styrofoam plus foam or wrapped in a blanket makes a difference
i need to block enough to be able to sing in privacy😆
yesss this is what im tryna do in my studio apartment 😂
You'll want to create a small room that's not physically connected to any walls within your room and add insulation to the inside and ceiling.
@@hingesleverswhat about making a closet within a closet just an inch away from the walls in all directions?
Acoustic panels and acoustic foam are 'SNAKE-SALESMAN-CRAP'.
Your Wall's need to BE INSULATED FROM SOUND first and foremost. It will STOP sound out and in. Use a wooden frame not connected TO the walls withing your room/s. Then USE Exterior Rockwool SLABS and then cover over with SOUNDBLOCK Gyprock, use whatever type of a soundblock-soundproof type of Gyprock sheets which are available to you. THIS Works 100% it DOES !
I have used this system all over not only my house but next-door-neighbour's walls too and neither of us hear ANYTHING from one another and we both watch TV and Movies LOUD !!!
Thanks for your input.
I want to start singing again. But I'm rly self conscious about my voice. so I want to soundproof my room so my roommates don't hear me singing at 3 am :'(
I was watching untill he brought out those acoustic panels lol
חכה אחי. את יהודיה? אני רואה שהיו לך כמה מיילים בעברית?
Use roofing shingles
Mass-loaded-vinyl is ALSO SNAKE-OIL crap.
Just make new walls on your own side with what I suggest in my other note. This person is simply telling lies. Do Not go wasting your hard earned cash THEN make new sound proofed walls, do the walls, forget what this fella is stating as he is as said before, simply telling lies !
I respectfully disagree. But thanks for watching and contributing to the algorithm. 😊
Bro lost his mind over vinyl.
Why does this guy look like Ian Hecox
U just mad enavideo saying acouatix panels and sound panels wonr make much of a difference
Thanks!