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Me and my brother have are computers right below are parents bedroom and they are constatly coming down and telling us to turn them off and go to bed is there anyway to sound proof are room so they cant here us as well?

A cheap way please

2006-11-21 11:16:38 · 10 answers · asked by dylanklassen 2 in Home & Garden Do It Yourself (DIY)

sorry about all the spelling mistakes

2006-11-21 11:17:09 · update #1

10 answers

The biggest thing is to stop transmission through the floors and walls. A thick carpet (or sound absorbing material) under the computer desk will help. If you have a subwoofer, lift it off the ground and place it somewhere on the desk. If your desk has lower shelf that would be an ideal place (after you separate the desk from the floor and walls.)There are also spikes you can buy to place under the speaker to lift it off the ground to minimize transmission. Make sure the computer is not near an air vent as vents will carry sound throughout the house.

Think about hanging sound dampening materials on the walls (egg crates do indeed work although they tend to be very ugly.) The recording studio I worked at made baffle boxes to break up sound wave reflection and transmission. They were made of wood frames (think shadow box) filled with cotton and covered in black fabric.They were fastened to the walls (kinda like art) with weather stripping behind the edges to seperate them from the wall

Hope this helps.

2006-11-21 12:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 2 · 0 1

I would say the two cinder block walls are okay as far as deadening...the other two wooden walls may not be. If they are not sheetrocked and well insulated...I would make sure that happens...Then go to the store and buy these things they used to call egg crates. They are contoured foam that used to be the rage on beds to make them softer and they look like an egg crate. you should be able to cover the walls with those fairly cheap...and they will block the echos from the cinderblock and sheetrock. If there is no carpet in the room I would go buy some cheap carpet to put in there for the same reason. When recording, the last thing you want is some stuipid echo sounds trashing up your recordings. The pros use something similar to the eggcrates in pro recording studios, but the foam isn't really that much different and it would cost a fortune to do a whole wall in it.!!!!

2016-03-12 21:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

First you should obey your parents. That being said here are some suggestions: use headphones instead of speakers, egg cartons make great sound proofing material - the bottom half of the carton is kept and placed around the area that is to be sound proofed.

2006-11-21 11:24:01 · answer #3 · answered by yesmynameismud 3 · 0 1

if you have a computer speaker system with two desktop units and a floor box "woofer", it is the woofer which transmits the noise through the floor. (that's how they are designed to work, use the floor as a sounding board) Take the box off the floor and well away from the wall and you could be OK.

The situation will be reversed in a few years, when your parents are older they will turn the volume up on the TV until you can't hear yourselves think!

2006-11-21 22:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by XT rider 7 · 0 1

Really the only way is to install a separated ceiling using either foam or a pressed fiber material. You need the separation of at least 3 or 4 inches to suppress the sound from transferring to the floor of your parents room.

2006-11-21 12:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Card board cup holders. Didn't you see Hustle & Flow? I think you're parents will love it when you room looks like a Home Studio. Praise the lord and pass the staple gun!

2006-11-21 11:32:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Why not "Turn them off and go to bed" in obedience? You need your sleep and so do the parents. I am totally on their side.

If you did less computer and more study there would not be the spelling mistakes. (I would probably put a timer on the computers if my boys did that to me - put up a sound barrier!!)

And it is "My brother and I have our. . ." You also missed an apostrophe!! (Parent's bedroom) Hee hee. And while we are at it, you have an incorrect antecedent: It sounds as though you are about to turn the parents off!! And a couple of other things that I will not go in to!! (I love our language and like to try and use it well.)

I have five kids and the last two at home also have computers in the next door room. Not in their bedrooms mind you. And our rule is off at 11, and into bed guys. School tomorrow! Teens need 9 -10 hours of sleep a night.

2006-11-21 12:47:25 · answer #7 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 1 6

Buy some of those foam matress pads, the ones that have the eggcarton look, and staple them to the ceiling.

2006-11-21 19:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by Dish 2 · 0 1

Buy headphones and use them.

2006-11-21 18:37:13 · answer #9 · answered by James H 3 · 0 1

insulate the walls, and ceiling if applicable.

2006-11-21 14:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by mr.dj 3 · 0 1

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