Mary Burns Wrote:
We bought our son a drumset, and neglected to get the garage soundproofed first (what were we thinking?!?). In order to keep peace with our neighbors I'd like to at least soundproof the garage door. Any local recommendations? I did find a very comprehensive website that describes the process, but it's more than I'm willing to do right now: http://www.soundproofing.org/infopages/garage.htm

Baloo Wrote:
Home depot sell a spray foam that should quiet you son's musical stylings. Also there a a few handy men that might be able to help...

Baloo attached these links:
Home Depot
Your Local Handy Man

Neighbor105383 Wrote:
Hi Mary I have a solution to your problem, but its costly and sounds really strange. I sound proofed a music studio in the city. We tore all the drywall out, insulated,re-rocked with 5/8 drywall heres the funny part laid carpet on the walls, and then re-rocked with 5/8 in both cases it was all fire taped and green board was used for drywall. I can gaurantee this will work because the studio was in a shared building and no sound leaked what so ever. Neil : )

Neighbor105452 Wrote:
This is the scale of thing one has to do. Essentially you have to "float the room." An alternative is to use some variant on electronic drum kits. This article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_V-Drums ) is a reasonable introduction. One can go quite far in this direction; there are a wide variety of brains available ( you've read the wikipedia entry right ) which can accept trigger inputs. Along that line Alesis made a series (D4, D5) which can be triggered from almost any closed circuit / switch. Personally I've used the Alesis and Roland handsonic variations and found them quite thwakable. Lots of this stuff can be found in swap shops across the peninsula. This approach leads to headphones or a small PA for final monitoring. Another alternative, if your child is clever, is to retrofit a pair of noise canceling headphones and a giant PA stack to actually pump anti-sound into the garage. This would create interfering sound pressure levels causing the drumming noise to be canceled out by the PA. I expect the result would also be useful for drying clothes. - casey