Soundproofing Magazine
Soundproofing advice and information for Drummers.
Issue#1 - Design
The issues behind the conversion from garage to Soundproof space
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| What are we trying to Achieve? |
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The
problems
When building a music
practice room, the most important problem to be solved is stopping sound from
escaping. If your practice space leaks sound like water through a sieve, then
this will annoy the neighbours and eventually cause them to call the
police!
This problem ...
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| How Soundproof is Soundproof? |
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How
sound-proof is "sound-proof"?
The amount of acoustic
isolation required before a room can accurately be described as "sound-proof"
has been the subject of much discussion. The original way of describing the
acoustic isolation provided by a particular construction was to quote a t...
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| RWAR Room Within a Room |
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Room Within A Room (RWAR)
When you want to sound-proof
an existing structure, one of the most effective ways of achieving this is to
create what is known as a room-within-a-room. This principle means that within
the existing room, you build a second, smaller room whose floor, walls and ...
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| Internal Acoustics | Stage 1 Part 4
So we're
done then?
NO! You've
only solved one problem! Sound proofing your room will keep everyone
outside the room happy, because you have stopped sound escaping and
therefore annoying everyone. However, you have to sit inside the room.
Sound proofing does not address the issues of th...
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| Absorbency | Stage 1 Part 5
Absorbency
The acoustic absorbency of a
material determines the proportion of energy removed from a sound wave when it
reflects off that material.
Absorbency values are almost
always quoted as a number between 0 and 1. So at the bottom end of the scale, a
material with an ab...
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| Reverberation Time | Stage 1 Part 6
Reverberation Time
As was mentioned above, one of
the key properties of a room's acoustical performance is the length of time it
takes for the sound energy to die away. We need to add some more detail here;
namely, how do we decide when the sound has "died away"? Is it half ...
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