The studs in your wall are the equal to a string pulled tight between two coffee cans. Vibrations will carry through the studs to the adjoining room and deliver air born noise. To properly combat sound bleed through your wall, you have two goals. First, add density to the wall, this will impede vibration. Much…
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Onsite Acoustical Consulting
Controlling noise levels within a room does NOT require onsite experts in the field of soundproofing. The mere size, shape and surface textures that make up the room can easily help calculate for the trained expert what is called a Sabin count. Yes, that’s a technical term, but not to worry. It’s measuring the level…
Read MoreThe Two Second Rule in Acoustics
Take any restaurant, sanctuary, classroom, fellowship hall, band room, conference room or recording studio. Stand in the center of the room and clap your hands. If the room is properly treated for acoustics, the background sound wave reflections will bounce off perimeter surfaces and die off within two seconds. Two seconds is the threshold level…
Read MoreSolving Noise & Saving Money
Got Noise? Solve it & Save. Rooms that fill with excessive echoes include restaurants, gymnasium, sanctuaries, fellowship halls, daycare centers, cafeterias, multipurpose rooms, offices, conference rooms, band rooms, and more. The echoes from noise reflecting off perimeter surfaces in the room combine to build unwelcome levels of background noise. As a result, the room is…
Read MoreHow to Lower Cafeteria Noise
Loud cafeterias are filled with loud kids. While there is no remedy to lowering the noise any one child puts out, the noise in the room can certainly be better controlled. Lowering noise levels in a cafeteria is all about controlling the ambient echoes in the room. As the kids produce noise, their voices reflect…
Read MoreDo Sound Panels Block Noise?
One of the most mis-understood aspects of the soundproofing business is clients that call asking for sound panel treatments to help block noise bleeding from one room to the next. The reality is, sound panels do not block noise. Sound panels absorb echoes. Sound panels will produce lower background noise within the same room the…
Read MoreWhy Are Restaurants So Loud?
Architects, Designers, Builders and Restaurant Owners combine to target wipe-able, cleanable, decorative surfaces in their restaurant projects. These surfaces can include brick, block, wood, glass, tin, marble, granite, stone and metal. On average, these surfaces combine to absorb an average of 5% of the sound wave reflections inside the restaurant space. That leaves the dead…
Read MoreSoundproofing Basement Walls
The outer walls in most basements will be concrete block or poured cement. The inner walls defining the rooms in a basement will be wooden stick frame. Four walls, two concrete, two wood frame is the standard starting point for a client attempting to hold noise to within a room in the basement. The room…
Read MoreHow Expensive is Soundproofing?
The answer to this is dependent on the size of your room. The larger the space, the more square footage of product will be needed in order to trigger the sound values you are after. We are careful to not under treat the space and force a decay in your results. A simple Room Analysis…
Read MoreWhat is a Sound Panel?
The term “sound panel” is generic, and can refer to a variety of different types of panels designed to capture echoes. Sound panels are made of either foam or compressed fiberglass. Foam panels are filled with tiny pores that accept sound waves, while fiberglass panels are filled with tiny fibers that also capture the sound…
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