Reducing sound going thru walls??

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: luckysnafu
Other than adding layers of drywall (soundproof drywall is a joke) there is nothing you can place on the wall to reduce sound transmission. Try putting on music during the act or if you really want a long term solution, buy a sound masking system. These types of system play noise (white or pink) at low levels to mask other sounds. I think there are some relatively cheap ones on amazon.

hogwash:

bookshelves + shit ton of books. damn fine sound absorbers right there.

 

[Saint Nick]

Get some green glue and some dry wall.

http://www.greengluecompany.com/

http://www.greengluecompany.co...rywall/OLTL05-0414.gif

 

[ElFenix]

get it on at the same time and claim any noises are just you

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Kntx
Hmmm... I think I am going to see about this foam. Can't hurt to try. I wonder how I will respond when asked about the foam by the woman.

so no one can hear your cries?

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
get it on at the same time and claim any noises are just you

Or just invite roomie and his g/f over for a 4-way. Then everyone will feel much more comfortable.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: Kntx
Hmmm... I think I am going to see about this foam. Can't hurt to try. I wonder how I will respond when asked about the foam by the woman.

Tell them it's to prevent their heads from hitting the wall too hard while you're banging them.

OMG :laugh:

 

[BoomerD]

Keep in mind...this is an apartment so any "fixes" have to be temporary and easily removed.

That's why I suggested "tacking up" some acoustic foam.

It'd be fugly, but it should solve the problem.

 

[darkxshade]

Play jungle background music on your stereo at 100dB

 

[Strk]

Homasote

It comes in 4x8 sheets

 

[Saint Nick]

Also, acoustic foam will dampen mid and high frequencies, it will not "block" sounds. Soundproofing is stopping sound altogether, "foaming" up your room is called sound treatment.

To soundproof, you need to add MASS to the walls, which since you are in an apartment, will probably be impossible. Unless you buy drywall and only lean it up against the wall, and maybe put some dead space in there.

 

[torpid]

Random foam might make the problem worse as it will make the room quieter from internal sources, thus making sound from external sources seem louder. Also, some foams are very unsafe to just have tacked up on the wall due to either being a fire hazard or releasing unpleasant odors.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha

Originally posted by: ElFenix
get it on at the same time and claim any noises are just you

Or just invite roomie and his g/f over for a 4-way. Then everyone will feel much more comfortable.

lan party with your own PC FTMFW

anyone realize that the costs to truly sound deaden a ghetto apartment exceed a few years rent esp on the loss of time and security/repainting/repairing walls

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Dude, live a little, just push the beds together and have more fun. Walls are for sissies, just don't cross swords.

Like in ghost busters ... dont cross the beams!

 

[Freshgeardude]

get something like this onto each others walls http://www.soundprooffoam.com/...oam.html?section=image

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Dude, live a little, just push the beds together and have more fun. Walls are for sissies, just don't cross swords.

Step 1: Cut a hole in the wall.

Step 2: Put your junk in that hole.

Step 3: Make her OH GOD THEY'RE USING A STAPLER ON IT!!!!



Ok, maybe that's not a good idea.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Just turn a porn on when you're doing it, and turn up the volume.

For gods sake, dont put in a John Holmes flick, cuz that will just depress the hell out of you.

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: Kntx
So I live in an appartment and the walls within the appartment are thin. My bedroom and my roommate's bedroom are right next to each other. We're always hearing each others sex noises. Now him and I think it's funny and OK. The ladies however, they hear the sex noises then worry that their sex noises can be heard as well. This makes them skittish. I was thinking that there could be some kind of covering I could put over the walls to muffle the noise. I was thinking of putting up a layer of soundproof drywall, but realisitically that's too much work and since it's an appartment it would be complicated. Maybe something like a foam pad that could cover the whole wall? I know that if you take a whole bunch of square egg packaging (like the kind that restaurants get eggs in) and create an array on the wall it will reduce sound to almost 0. But I don't know where I'd get them all and having egg cartons on the wall would be weird.

Any ideas ATOT??

Why not just cover their faces with a pillow - not in a bad way - but so their screams of joy are muffled.

Or set up a schedule where one of you is out and about while the other is getting his groove on...