do cup holders make good soundproofing for a room for music recording?

Question

do they work for soundproofing and if not can someone give me tips on how to make good soundproofing for music recording

Answer 1

One thing to keep in mind i that you don't want to be stuck in a room that is covered inside with very flammable plastic materials. That is the soundproofing mistake they made at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island and 200 people died there.

Answer 2

Soundproofing A Room For Recording

Answer 3

Are you trying to soundproof the room, or just deaden the room so you don't get any unwanted sound deflection?

Are you really considering cup HOLDERS, or inverted cups as sound deadening material? The fact is neither one will help SOUNDPROOF a small room very well.

Remember that the media that carries sound is air. Sound also travels more effectively through dense material. Also low frequency sound requires less energy to travel farther than high frequencies do.
So a Bass Guitar hooked up to a 50 watt amp sitting on a concrete floor inside your house may be heard clearly out on a busy street outside. Where a harmonica player bowing through a 200 watt PA inside may not be heard from outside at all.

Things like inverted cups glued to walls in a makeshift studio serve better to deaden the sound so the recording sound less like it was made in your bathroom. The basis for that is that if the walls in the room of your recording studio are parallel to each other they will tend to refect the sound off of each other more. One technique to use for a properly designed studio is to build the walls so that the opposite walls are not parallel to each other, but are at different angles.

Often in a home, or small room this isn't very practical, so that's when you find other ways to make the flat surfaces on the walls uneven, or unparallel.
Multiple cone shapes fastened to the wall is one way to accomplish it. Another way is to make one or more panels that are at least equal to 40% of the overall wall surface and mount them on the wall in different places. It also helps further if these panels are made of sound absorbing materials like foam or thick blankets. Plus you want to mount the panels so that they are not flat on the wall like a picture frame, but so that they create an angled surface (10 degrees or more) relative to the opposite wall.

Or a quick and dirty method to both deaden the room, and somewhat reduce the sound escaping from it, is to line some old discarded mattresses against the inside walls of the room. Keep an extra mattress on hand to throw up against the door to the room after everyone is inside, and then cut loose with your band. Just remember that most of the bass will escape through the floor, and the more dense the material the floor is made of the farther the bass will travel outside. If the floor is of wood construction, then the floor will vibrate, and the more resonant sounds will travel upwards, and shake the entire building you are in.

Again, professional studios are usually designed to isolate the sound studio from the rest of the building. They sort of build a room within a room, and have the interior of the studio with as few physical connections to the rest of the building as they can get away with, and where there are physical connections they make them out of materials that tend not to carry low frequency vibrations very well.

But if you are talking about soundproofing a small room in your house or garage, then use lots of matresses, and thick blankets. From there, turn the volume down, and close mike everything.

Have fun!

Answer 4

my husband & his band rented a small vacant store(room). they carpeted the entire place from floor to ceiling (ceiling carpeted). you couldn't hear a thing outside the place.

Answer 5

Use egg trays... But you must have ample of it...