My boyfriend just bought a $3500 set of Roland Electric Drums but it vibrates the floor. Making the neighbors not too happy. We live in a townhome that is connected on both sides. There is a crawl space that is 4feet tall underneath the apartment. It's not so much that you can hear the drums, we have headphones hooked up instead of an amp, it's just the vibration throuth the floor. Any sound proofing ideas?
2007-02-21 05:58:33 · 7 answers · asked by MrsalmostMom 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Get a thick rubber mat. You can find them in stores like Home Depot, Lowes, etc. They are intended to put at work stations to lessen the fatigue in the legs of the people who stand on them. But, they will absorb a lot of the vibrations you are talking about instead of letting those vibrations conduct through the hard materials in the room.
2007-02-21 06:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by toothacres 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good choice using Roland gear. I am a keyboard player and my Roland gear includes a Juno 106, a JV-90, a Fantom 6, and a few module keyboards I have in a rack.
Just like my set up, bass is important. Unfortunately, your neighbors just like mine underneath me here in the Bronx, are not lovers of my music.
What I did in another house I lived in before, was to raise and insulate the floor.
If u own the town home, then you must insulate.
Insulating the crawl space may not be a good idea , because one day you may have to go into it to find a plumbing or electrical problem.
What I did was install 2x4's the length of the room. Tack them down to the existing floor. Space them @ 12". add pink insulation in all the open spaces and cover with 1/2" to 3/4" plywood. Then put a carpet down.
see if that works. costs a little, but at least you can jam at a reasonable level.
2007-02-21 18:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by icd1765 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
listed under are some ideas: one million. attempt utilising lighter or smaller sticks. 2. hose down your drums - stuff towels or foam into your drums. this could exchange the sound fairly and could no longer be suited - yet your stick reaction would be the comparable and by using tweaking the froth you could administration the sound somewhat. 3. dangle blankets or tarps on the partitions. you will nevertheless be loud, however the room heavily isn't so vivid. you will hose down the noise bouncing off the partitions. 4. The drumpads Stefani reported are reliable. they may be too quiet nonetheless and your stick reaction may be distinctive. 5. that's various paintings yet you could build a container around your equipment. I made a 2 frames approximately 3 one million/2 ft by using 5 ft by using 4 inches thick and tacked some canvas around them. i could place the panels in front of my drums. of direction this takes up extra area which you will no longer ought to paintings with. 6. inform your guitarist to get a much better amp! lol i'm hoping you adult men are donning earplugs....
2016-12-18 08:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is a bass player we used to have the same problem when we lived in an apartment. We used dense foam rubber, like the kind you might put under carpet, it worked very well.
2007-02-21 12:51:11 · answer #4 · answered by tchwety40 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can talk to your neighbors about what time of day you can rock out.
You could measure the vibrations your putting out by just placing a cup or water on a near by table.
Idk do what the first guy said!
2007-02-21 07:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could also buy cork squares and put your drums on these. It will deaden the vibration
2007-02-21 07:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by egotist61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a sound teck you can get a drum shield at your music shop and its realy realy gooood for that
2007-02-21 17:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋