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Posted by www.seph.ca on 01/08/07 18:15
I heard all this from the naysayers before I started.
It does work in fact just as I had hoped.
You are right about the other options, but your idea of cheap and mine are
slightly different.
Outside the room, and thru the house, it only sounds as loud as a loud
stereo with the door closed, which is as good as I needed.
Where does it say that I was looking to soundproof the way you indicate?
And it limited enough of the reflections to make it a great recording space.
As for the look, I will be spraypainting some flourescent designs on them
shortly which will look fine under black lights.
Naysayers are a dime a dozen.
I have always been a pragmatist, and what works works.
I don't care about appearances, and as far as I can tell, its mission
accomplished.
~S~
"nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> Egg crates, or the sonex or markerfoam pyramidal foam pads they stand
> in 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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