Soundproof Walls

I need to soundproof a room on a budget?

making a band. we need to soundproof my bedroom so the parents don't get too annoyed. any affordable ideas please?

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1. A few sets of headphones for either the band members or the parents.
2. Put another layer of dry-wall around the room, don't forget the ceiling. or you can go to your local DIY store and look for the "scrap wood" there are great deals on sheets of plywood that you can use, (50cents a sheet at Homedepot) It may take longer to complete but at that price, what a deal!! Wood is better, it muffles well. From a mother of 4 teenage boys!!
3. If you get some polystyrene,and you can usually buy it from a plastics outfit,and line the walls.Probably tape it up,and then get some old blankets and fix to walls.You can always take it down after a session.Get the blankets from an Op shop.
4. get some of those egg crate mattress toppers they will reflect the sound back into the room.
5. This is the absolute cheapest, next to being free. Go to some rummage sales or Goodwill/Salvation army stores and buy the thickest drapes [curtains] you can find. Hang them on the wall with push-pins, from floor to ceiling, covering as much wall area as possible. If you have enough, two layers is better, just stagger the seams. Old carpeting is also great, but would be too heavy to temporarily hang up. Thick fabrics are the best for sound deadening, that's why you see tapestries hanging on movie theater walls.
6. My uncle stapled egg cartons all over the walls of his studio and that seems to work pretty well.
7. Egg cartons was the old fashion way of doing it. You can use bobble wrap or one of the best is fibre-glass loft insulating but make sure it is sealed behind something cas it will cause irritation of skin and its not health to breath it in.