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Soundproofing vs. Sound Absorption
I have been getting a lot of calls lately where people are looking to soundproof a room. There are two sides of the acoustical coin, if you will. There are products that absorb echo within a room and there are products that will block or stop a sound […]
Soundproofing a Condo
“We have a beach condo that is an open floor plan – there’s a main space across the front that is all windows, wood floors and then drywall – when a movie is on the whole condo can hear is. If we’re in there talking, the kids’ pinball and pool games take over. Wondering about creating a track across the back with sound dampening curtains so that in those cases we can block off the room and otherwise it can be open for the views […]”
Soundproofing a Noisy Air Handler
“I have a large air handler in an industrial area and there is a problem with the noise level that is generated from it. I am interested if you have a sound proofing product that can be applied to it.” A few months ago, I designed and fabricated a six sided enclosure for a similar problem in New York […]
Home Gym Echo Problem – Fixed
When we designed our home gym, my wife and I wanted the walls to be safe for when my kids to run around in the gym and we wanted the room to be more quiet than a regular gym. We considered hanging impact absorbing gymnastics type mats on the walls, but these were expensive, difficult to install, and not very sound absorbing. We looked at fabric acoustical wall panels, but they were not durable or easily washable. Then I found the Sound Silencer acoustical wall panels […]
Kennel/Animal Hospital Soundproofing
I take about three to four calls a month from people who are looking to soundproof or acoustically treat a kennel, boarding room, or animal hospital. I have provided a few different products to approach and fix the noise problem in a few different ways. Typically kennels or boarding facilities are set up very similarly which revolves almost specifically around function and clean-ability […]
Event Hall Acoustical Problem
“We have a Band/Music Venue issue. We just opened a music club with great atmosphere, sound, and lighting. It is all going well. Problem is that we are getting too much sound bleed into the upstairs. What is best way for me to get a handle on this?” Sound is always going to travel via the path of least resistance […]
Computer Lab Acoustics
Computer lab acoustics are always interesting, and almost always a problem. My first semester of college was back when computers were new, and kids carried around 5 1/2″ floppy disks that could hold about five words each. The school that I attended converted an old gymnasium into a computer lab, and named it “The Bee Hive” because of the constant hum and buzz of the old machines. You could almost feel the energy of the noise when you entered the building. Since then, computer labs are a little different, but still amazingly the same […]
Acoustical Doors & Door Seals
A one-percent air gap (1/8″ gap along the floor) around the door will leak up to 30% of the noise from one side of the door to the other. The automatic door bottom will lower a neoprene gasket to the floor. The door bottom works as a self-leveling unit so the gasket that is near the hinge will hit the ground first, and the rest will level to the ground as the door closes further and further. […]
Educational Acoustics/Acoustics 101
Acoustics is not as hard as people generally make it out to be. Reverberation (echo) is simply a relationship between the size of the space and the surfaces that make up the space. The intent of this article is to help you start to understand how that relationship works and how to help or eliminate an echo problem […]
Restaurant Acoustics
Restaurant acoustics and sound reduction in restaurants is often one of the trickiest situations that we are asked to fix. We have to consider the aesthetics of the room, the availability of open wall or ceiling space, health code concerns, budget for the project, and trickiest of all, finding the right number of panels to install to “take the edge off” but not make the place sound like a coffin […]
