|  | Posted by nobody special on 01/08/07 17:09 
Egg crates, or the sonex or markerfoam pyramidal foam pads they standin for, do not soundproof a room, they only retard reverberation or
 'slap-back', but even simple cheap movers blankets can do that. In our
 radio days we used coarkboard tiles and tons of posters to soak up
 sound.
 
 I think I would have painted at least half those cartons before
 putting them up so you could get a nice checkerboard pattern going like
 at the old Chess Studio in Chicago. As it is, that picture looks like
 my kid went nuts with a glue gun and his school art project.:-P
 
 If you are looking to soundproof or at least deaden a room really
 cheaply, a better strategy might be to put heavy hooks in along the
 ceiling into wall studs, then hang shag rugs floor to ceiling with a
 1-inch air gap beween the backs of the rugs and the walls. You could
 then find some nice mandala patterns on a rug to hang in front of you.
 You would still get transmissive sound coming thru the floor and
 ceiling, but this would be an inexpensive and easily removeable method
 to get a way quieter room and less bleed of sound out to the rest of
 the house.
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