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How to Soundproof a Gym

Reducing Your Gym Noise Gymnasiums are mostly big, over-sized, shoe box shaped rooms with 3 sets of parallel surfaces.   All the surfaces are typically hard and reflective, with floors, ceilings and perimeter walls absorbing less than 5% of the sound wave reflections within the space.    As the gym fills with people, whether for classes, sporting…

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Back to School and Noise Exposure

COVID is Not The Only Threat to Children Going Back to School, Noise is a Close Second Soon those infamous orange buses will be strolling down the road, breaking to stop at your child’s pick-up location in your neighborhood.   The kids are excited, their new backpacks are loaded with tools and utensils, the parents eager…

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How to Choose Acoustical Panels

9 Tips For Choosing Acoustical Sound Panels If you are experiencing unwelcome levels of noise in your office space, gym, cafeteria, or church and want to lower the level of echo, a series of wall or ceiling mounted sound panels is your answer.   Place them in your room, they’ll absorb echoes, lower noise levels,…

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Selecting Your Acoustic Foam

Acoustic foams come in many shapes and sizes.   They are typically cut into squares or rectangles because its easier to ship the material that way.   Rolled forms of foam typically are flat foams with no convolute cut into the face of the material.   But flat foam won’t absorb as much sound, because scultped foam has more surface space exposure, meaning it captures more sound waves per

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Echo and Noise Control

Regardless of the source, all sound waves exhibit certain characteristics when they change mediums. Sound waves are actually vibrations which travel from molecule to molecule through most substances. For instance, sound waves can easily travel through means such as air, water, drywall, metal and concrete, an inherent

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Common Wall Soundproofing

Walls that bleed noise are typically not heavy enough to withstand resonance, and structurally not disconnected enough to force the collapse of the trasnmitting sound wave.   Think of a string pulled tightly between two cans, with your voice carrying through the vibration of the string.   Well, the studs inside your wall cavity are connecting your…

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Soundproofing a Cafeteria

Cafeterias in schools, churches, hospitals, offices, prisons, and more will serve thousands of diners over a week’s period of time.   The venue takes on a social component as diners enjoy a break in the routine of their day.   Cafeterias share a common acoustic challenge common to a variety of dining rooms…the presence of a

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How to Produce Premium Sanctuary Sound

The spoken word in a sanctuary is often threatened by unwelcome sound wave reverberations within the space.   As echoes permeate throughout the room, clarity to speech gives way to background noise, and the audience is lost.   Key to the success of any sanctuary is the ability to convert these background noise signals, so that in turn, greater clarity to speech is produced.   As echoes collapse, speech patterns become

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Designer Acoustic Panels

Soundproofing panels do not have to be boring. This generation of designers insists on more functionality than previously available from manufacturers of soundproofing acoustic panels. Previously most sound treatments were solid foam panels for sound or music studios, recording studios, industrial applications, or movie theaters without regard to design. A straightforward one-colored panel worked fine….

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Soundproof Ceiling Tiles

While most of us are familiar with the every day commercial grade ceiling tile, seen in most any commercial space that you may shop, dine, worship, study or play in, the reality is that the majority of these tiles offer very little support acoustically.   They are there primarily to disguise the pipes in the ceiling, and offer an archtiectural finish to a room.   Standard commercial grade ceiling tiles do NOT block sound from bleeding in

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