Soundproofing a room for the band.

[polm]

My dad's B'day is in June and I want to soundproof his band room. This way he can practice 24/7, as loud as he wants, without driving my mom crazy.

I'm not able to spend a ton (no more than a 1,000 dollars).

Any suggestions before I start digging through the web?

 

[Eli]

Go used carpet.

He will get used to the smell of old beer stains, vomit and animal urine after a while.

 

[randay]

drink holders from mcdonalds.

 

[lokiju]

http://www.ehow.com/how_15992_soundproof-room.html

 

[RelaxTheMind]

easiest? 1 or 2 layers of any premium type sound deadening mat on the walls ceiling and under carpet/flooring unless you want to rip drywall and compress 5x the normal mount of insulation. a bass trap of some sort (highly based on type on music played and size of room). commercial gas filled double pane glass are sufficient if there are windows.

run you about $1000 for a basic 10 x 12 room. maybe closer to $500 if you shop around for generic commercial no name stuff and do everything yourself (ie. ripping down walls and adding sound deadening material).

foam crap and mattresses will just deaden the sound by reducing sound reflection. Lower frequencies are what you would worry about more and generally what all the dampening material is for.

im more familiar with the building of a room from scratch in studio apartment type spaces or garages. would seem more difficult to work on an existing room.

Edit: How expensive will depend on how much time you want to spend and how pretty you want it to look.

 

[biggestmuff]

You can't soundproof a room for under a grand. Soundproofing is isolating sound through construction and specific building materials.

For $1000 you're looking at treating a room for reverberations, reflections, null spots and standing waves which is not what you are wanting to accomplish.

 

[K1052]

Your options depend a lot on the room in question and how much work you're willing to do.