Redpill me on this stuff

[Anonymous No.1980379]

>costs as much as a 5/8" sheet of drywall
>improves STC by 1/8 the amount of 5/8" drywall

I see this thing shilled across reddit and acoustic "professionals". Yet when I ask actual builders they say it's a meme and to just add another drywall or other mass. I'm having a hard time justifying paying $500 for these faggot tubes when I could buy a room full of 5/8" with RC for that amount.

Was Reddit a mistake?

[Anonymous No.1980415]

>>1980379
>plebbit shit
if I wanted to read garbage and be surrounded by morons, I'd go there. please take your cancer and go fucking back.

[Anonymous No.1980469]

>>1980379
Making a soundproof room economically is like making a prison cell, you have to secure and minimize all wall and ceiling penetrations before making the walls and ceilings better.
If the room has any windows, soundproofing that room beyond what is normal building code (depending on where you live) is often a waste of money.
Find out what Sound Transmission Class your windows have, dual-pane windows are often 27 STC, so you will gain almost nothing from making the walls better than 27 STC.
If the room has no windows then consider if the air vent and door type are soundproof enough, once that is clear you can confidently invest money in walls and ceilings.
The most efficient strategy is to make a smaller room inside a bigger room or to use a basement without windows.

[Anonymous No.1980477]

>>1980379
If you don't mind losing more physical space in the room and don't mind the extra work hanging drywall go that route. But I hear you on the glue. It doesn't seem like it would be that effective scientifically.

[Anonymous No.1981247]

>>1980379
its a jew trick obviously.
for my ceiling i use:
- some white condensed styrofoam thing
- professional thicc rubber sound insulation
- bitum foil for roofs, the sticky rubber thing
- thin wood cardboard thing
- another condensed styrofoam.

And i use styrofoam insulation adhesive, if i had to use green glue i would be -5000$

[Anonymous No.1981278]

>>1980379
Fart on it until it faints

[Anonymous No.1981433]

>>1980379
You already answered your own goddamn question.

[Anonymous No.1981457]

>>1980379
/what is vibration

[Anonymous No.1981898]

>>1980379
use 5/8 drywall and the green glue

[Anonymous No.1981913]

>>1980379
acoustic proffessionals are snake oíl vendors. If you want acoustic isolation you hang towels, use fibreglass or hempfibre isolation. dont waste our and your own time

[Anonymous No.1982061]

>>1981913
>If you want acoustic isolation you hang towels
You seem confused. Soundproofing and room acoustics are two very different things. Both are very easily measured so only retards will fall for snakeoil products (like foam panels).

[Anonymous No.1982095]

>>1981913
SIGNAL CLEANSING CRYSTALS ARE NOT A MEME!!! THE CRYSTALS WORK!!!! YOU NEED DESSICANTS FOR A PROPERLY DRY SOUND!!!!!

[Anonymous No.1982101]

>>1980379
Mass is always the priority, if its not enough you start looking at solutions like this. Either specialized drywall material, rubber mats, air-spacing, various trinkets.

I used green glue joist tape for example when I wanted to make sure I had no vibration leakage downwards towards the floor as there was piping and such that would carry it even further. The tape was used with joist spacing, double layer of drywall, + filler + 20cm of concrete. Worked very well, total isolation. Home theater room.

[Anonymous No.1982539]

>>1982095
Bro that installation is terrible. They need to be in heat shrink tubing that covers the entire connector sheathing.

You might as well have just used dry rice with an install like this

[Anonymous No.1982669]

I recently renod by basement and did some sound insulation approach to it cuz why not. I did not use green glue as needing the quantity I needed was as much as the 2 x 5/8th drywall+r12 fiberglass. It was ridiculous so I opted out. I put the drywall and fiberglass between ceilling joists. It's made a noticeable difference all around (sound, temperature) despite my basement not having a door to block sound. One thing I noticed is that the subfloor that has the 2 layers of drywall screwed to it feels firmer.

I never wanted to all autistic about soundproofing and just wanted to do what was feasible. I feel like I got 80% result at 50% of cost because I did not use green glue.

[Anonymous No.1982702]

>>1982101
no need to lie, we all know it's a rape cave

[Anonymous No.1983456]

>>1982095
If you want wet sound put your cables in hoses and fill them with the rarest whiskey you can find(aged in fine oak barrels for that woody wet sound)

[Anonymous No.1983528]

I got the green glue and did a room within a room and 2 sheets of 5/8" drywall. The room is very very quiet.
(it was not a groom room, or rape cave, or stabbin' cabin, but rather a cuck shed)
I got the green glue because I could afford it and I saw some frequency response graphs that seemed convincing.

After all the money and time I spent on the cuck shed; low-frequency vibrations like from motorcycles, stereos, heavy trucks etc were still audible if quiet. Audible enough to be annoying if you're completely autistic, but plenty quiet for normal people.