Soundproof Walls

How do you go about sound proofing a room?

Can you get basic supplies at the hardware store, or do you need special stuff?

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1. do it 8 mile white trash style, drink holders from mickyd's
2. Acoustic board. They line band practice rooms with it.
3. If you're just trying to make your room (apartment) quieter then tapestries on the walls will help a lot.
4. You can purchase cork specifically made for this purpose, ask at a Home Center.
5. Soundproofing a room First thing you want to do is to decide whether you truly want to soundproof a room, or the simply want to deaden the sound in the room? Understanding how sound travels will help you to decide this question. To give a completely and totally ridiculous answer, sound is the interaction of one molecule with another molecule. Therefore the only way to achieve a soundproof room is to build that room in a vacuum. The most sound resistant room that you can install would-be an anechoic chamber. Soundproofing a room, that is preventing sound from transmitting through the walls, can be accomplished in a slightly different manner. The idea behind soundproofing a room is simply to stop as many molecules as possible interacting with one another as possible. The most common way of doing this is to install some sort of a tab onto the studs of the room. Then you install your drywall on the studs. Insulating material would go into the wall cavity. And then some sort of material would go on the surface of the wall, preferably inside the room so it doesn't make your whole house look weird, that would act as a sound deadener. That can get pretty expensive. Now trying to keep as much sound in a room as possible, or sound deadening. The idea behind this is to line the walls with some much junk that the sound simply can't escape. Common materials are corkboard, deep shag carpeting and insulation. I have even seen rooms lined with bed mattresses. The idea is to simply add some much mass to the walls that the sound cannot escape. I'm no sound engineer but that's it closely in a nutshell. I hope this helps. God bless
6. you can add another layer of wall board , spacing it about 1/8- 1/4''with felt squares where you'll place the screws, you can glue these on.
7. Try using ceiling tiles. Not only will they hender the noise but you can alos hang things on them really easy. Ceiling tiles will cost less then most other materials
8. you can insulate the room or you can buy rolls of cork in the flooring department of your local depot and line the walls with cork it has sound deadning qualities