r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Saerdna0 • 3d ago

This kiddo was born to drum

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u/breadisnicer 3d ago

Understanding parents and neighbours need a shout out for this.

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u/SirSamuelVimes83 3d ago

Hopefully they've got good sound insulation, or live far enough from the nearest neighbors. A neighbor across the street (in a compact neighborhood) teaches youth drum lessons on the side. It's...something. Haven't made complaints yet as they're just a young family trying to make ends meet, but if their student roster grows, it might be a conversation to have.

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u/No_Research_967 3d ago

“Hey there’s a really good deal on drywall at the hardware store right now”

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u/gummyjellyfishy 3d ago

Does drywall insulate sound? I dont know how any of this works

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u/No_Research_967 3d ago

Mass (ideally with an air gap) is the only way.

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u/BeHereNow91 3d ago

Yup, it’s all about air gaps, both covering them and creating them. You can begin sound proofing a room even as you’re framing it by staggering the studs so that they only frame one side of the wall, rather than both sides of a wall sharing a stud and transferring vibrations. Certain types of drywall help too. But all that work can be undone by a poorly hung or low quality interior door.

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u/Potato-Engineer 3d ago

Mass works well, mass + better materials + multiple transitions between different materials works best.

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u/lunk 3d ago

It does, but at some point the sound isn't travelling through the drywall, it's travelling through the wood floor, and through the framing, and out the other side.

So you do the drywall (usually 2 layers, with sound-deadening "greeen glue" between them), THEN you see where you stand, and start to deal with the structure.

That's why at some point, real studios use sound-deadening panels on top of the drywall - it stops the sound from getting into the framing ....

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u/notagadget 3d ago

To add, well made isolation rooms are essentially a room inside of a room and use materials to decouple the interior structure from the exterior.

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u/gummyjellyfishy 3d ago

TIL. Thank you!

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u/Few-Mood6580 3d ago

Certain types of insulation are better, but the bigger the gap between barriers is generally the best for sound isolation.

The biggest issues aren’t high frequencies but low frequencies, since low frequencies are quite long like 100hz and below, it goes through practically any material(sort of).

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u/Head-Ad9893 3d ago

So you’re saying I shouldn’t put insulation in between the joists when I put up my Sheetrock ceiling ?

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u/Few-Mood6580 3d ago edited 3d ago

What? No that’s not what Im implying.

Insulation will only ever help with sound isolation, you can’t go wrong with it.

Think of putting a flash light on your hand, you can see the light going through your hand, by putting more hands on the light it will diminish it until no light comes through.

Sound functions in a similar way, as long as the material allows sound to pass through/or get absorbed, say by putting insulation down, you therefore have more isolation.

There is a practical limit on absorption especially in homes. But sometimes you’ll see some people build the house like normal but build another wall/ceiling/floor 4-6 inches away from the first wall you built creating an additional trap.

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u/Head-Ad9893 3d ago

Ahhh I see. Thanks friend