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Sound Dampening/Proofing Mats
I live in an apartment complex that apparently has pretty thin floors. I
have a neighbor who has complained that he can hear my music below me. I play electric guitar with my amp just sitting on the carpet. I also have this electronic drum pad, but rarely ever play that without the headphones. I'm wondering if the amp on the floor and me hitting the pedals on the floor or the sticks on the pads isn't resonating in the floor and getting downstairs to them. Anyway, I was wondering if there isn't some kind of sound dampening/proofing mat that I could put my amp and my drum stand on to help prevent the sounds from going through the floor. Something 5'x5' or something like that would suffice. If anyone has any ideas or comments I'd appreciate it. |
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NorCalVikesFan wrote:
I live in an apartment complex that apparently has pretty thin floors. I have a neighbor who has complained that he can hear my music below me. I play electric guitar with my amp just sitting on the carpet. I also have this electronic drum pad, but rarely ever play that without the headphones. I'm wondering if the amp on the floor and me hitting the pedals on the floor or the sticks on the pads isn't resonating in the floor and getting downstairs to them. Anyway, I was wondering if there isn't some kind of sound dampening/proofing mat that I could put my amp and my drum stand on to help prevent the sounds from going through the floor. Something 5'x5' or something like that would suffice. If anyone has any ideas or comments I'd appreciate it. Auralex sell some way overpriced things that are supposed to do this. If the biggest part of the problem is indeed structure-borne resonance, they might help. OTOH, appartments are notorious for not having very much insulation between units. If airborne sound waves are getting through the floor/ceiling, isolation pads won't help. Before you spend your money on the Auralex things, see what kind of DIY solution you can come up with. What you need is something massive (cinder blocks, MDF board, tile backer board) and something squishy (carpet pad, sofa cushions, old motorcycle tires). Use the squishy stuff to isolate the massive stuff from the floor. The massive stuf plus whatever's on top of it (amps, drums, etc) should be just heavy enough to compress the squishy stuff by about 15 -25 %. Good luck. |
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"NorCalVikesFan" wrote in message m... I live in an apartment complex that apparently has pretty thin floors. I have a neighbor who has complained that he can hear my music below me. I play electric guitar with my amp just sitting on the carpet. I also have this electronic drum pad, but rarely ever play that without the headphones. I'm wondering if the amp on the floor and me hitting the pedals on the floor or the sticks on the pads isn't resonating in the floor and getting downstairs to them. Anyway, I was wondering if there isn't some kind of sound dampening/proofing mat that I could put my amp and my drum stand on to help prevent the sounds from going through the floor. Something 5'x5' or something like that would suffice. If anyone has any ideas or comments I'd appreciate it. I built a small 'floated' platform for my drumset which may interest you : http://www.imjohn.com/DrumFloor/index.htm Check out Auralex products too for similar stuff. Obviously unless you made it as big as your entire floor it's not going to reduce the volume of the music your downstairs neighbor is hearing but at least in my case it greatly reduced the mechanical noise transmitted form the bass drum and hihat pedals and probably muted some of the volume from the snare and floor tom. Best of luck! John L Rice |
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Trust me on this one cause I did a ton of research into it. If your looking
for a sound dampening mat similar to stuff like Dynamat which is used in cars to reduce vibration, go to mcmastercarr.com and get yourself a bunch of polymeric mastic .....it's the exact same stuff but a mere fraction of the price. Combine this with John's floating platform and you've pretty much isolated the sympathetic vibration from your drums.speakers into the floor. The sound waves eminatng from your drums/speakers are a different story altogether...good luck w/ that! -- Jonny Durango "Patrick was a saint. I ain't." http://www.jdurango.com "NorCalVikesFan" wrote in message m... I live in an apartment complex that apparently has pretty thin floors. I have a neighbor who has complained that he can hear my music below me. I play electric guitar with my amp just sitting on the carpet. I also have this electronic drum pad, but rarely ever play that without the headphones. I'm wondering if the amp on the floor and me hitting the pedals on the floor or the sticks on the pads isn't resonating in the floor and getting downstairs to them. Anyway, I was wondering if there isn't some kind of sound dampening/proofing mat that I could put my amp and my drum stand on to help prevent the sounds from going through the floor. Something 5'x5' or something like that would suffice. If anyone has any ideas or comments I'd appreciate it. |
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