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  • How To Soundproof Your Walls

    When it comes to residential soundproofing your starting point is key to select from one of two main scenarios that greatly change your options: soundproof an existing wall or an unfinished wall / new construction. New construction or opening an existing wall, to expose the studs, both start with high-density insulation within the wall. Let's consider a few different options for each scenario.
  • Live Near a Highway or Have Noisy Neighbors? How To Soundproof Your Home

    Many people like their homes to be their sanctuaries. Home is where they go to rest, recharge, play, watch TV, and sleep. Of course, relaxing becomes more difficult if you live near a busy highway, next to the airport, with noisy neighbors, or an aspiring musician. Luckily, soundproofing your home goes a long way toward cutting down on noise.
  • Planning for a Home Theater? Here’s How to Soundproof It

    Planning for a home theater is an exciting endeavor. After all, bringing the theater experience to the comfort of your own home can be exciting. That being said, a home theater system requires careful consideration of various factors.
  • Soundproofing Your Home Gym: What You Need to Know

    In today's fast-paced world, finding time to hit the gym can be challenging. That's why more and more people are setting up home gyms to conveniently fit their workout routines into their busy schedules.
  • Soundproofing Your Home Office: Tips and Tricks for Maximum Productivity

    Working from home can be a dream come true for many. However, noise can become a major distraction, hindering productivity and focus.
  • The Most Cost-Effective Ways to Soundproof Your Home

    Excessive noise can disrupt our daily lives and affect our overall well-being. Whether it's outside traffic, noisy neighbors, or internal noises like appliances and footsteps, finding ways to soundproof your home can significantly enhance your living experience.
  • The Top Soundproofing Brands and Products for Your Home or Office

    Unwanted noise can be a major nuisance, affecting our ability to focus, relax, and enjoy peace and quiet. Luckily, soundproofing products and solutions have come a long way, offering a wide range of products to help create serene environments in our homes and offices.

  • Creating a Professional Recording Studio in Your Home

    Music recording in a professional studio can be an expensive proposition, with studio time ranging anywhere from $50 to $500+ per hour at high-quality studios. Even if you're fortunate enough to find a budget studio offering low rates yet passable quality, it doesn't take long for the dollars per hour to mount up. This can cause you to rush when recording, leaving you with a less than enviable finished product.

  • Everything You Need to Know About Isolation Clips

    Whether you’re working on renovating a theater, dorm, or your home, soundproofing is a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of the building process. Although there are many ways to soundproof your building after it’s built and settled, nothing is quite as effective as starting from the ground up. While these are great alternatives, if you know right from the start that you want a soundproof area, isolation clips are a sure fire way to help obtain quick, effective results. If isolation clips aren’t quite your forte, here are some things you should know before deciding whether or not they’re suitable for your project

  • Everything You Need to Know About Mass Loaded Vinyl

    If you’re looking into soundproofing, then you’ve come across Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV), also known as “Limp Mass Barrier.” This material has been a keystone in soundproofing for decades. It’s incredibly effective because of its flexible and limp structure, but also its weight. It’s most popularly used in homes and personal studios because it’s such a great material for DIY soundproofing, but it’s also used commercially. Some may even use it to dampen road noises in their car by covering the interior with it. This miracle sound barrier was first introduced as a replacement for dangerous and toxic lead sheeting. As a safer alternative, it’s become one of the most popular soundproofing barriers on the market.

  • How Sound Affects Your Sleep Cycles

    Waking up from a poor night of rest is all too common in this fast-paced world. Placing the blame on technology and busy lifestyles is certainly valid, but there's another issue that can also impact your rest. Ambient sounds from the surrounding environment can wake you every night of the week. Learn how sound affects your sleep cycles, and choose smart ways to combat this serious problem.

  • Minimizing Noise Through Walls

    Dogs barking, neighbors yelling, loud music playing and traffic blasting by - these are all things that can be a real nuisance, causing stress and sleeplessness. If you're living in a home where these sound disturbances occur, finding ways to soundproof your living space can add significantly to the quality of your home life.

  • Prospec ® Composite Barrier

    We are always excited to add new and innovative products for our customers to enjoy. Bringing you the safest, most effective and affordable noise dampening materials has kept SoundAway on the cutting edge, and that dedication has led us to an awesome new product for homes and offices of any size. After doing our homework, we’re happy to introduce a new type of soundproofing material we feel will help you take your sound dampening projects to the next level

  • Reducing Noise Pollution in the Home

    Upgrading your house with soundproofing products is a great way to reduce unwanted sound from inside and outside the home. Reverberations from large appliances and noise from outside the home can be more distracting than you realize, disrupting your daily life and especially your sleep. Many simple projects can be done to improve the sound quality inside your home, on even the most modest budget, without the need to hire a contractor. So, we’re going to review a few fast, easy ways to improve the sound quality in your home.

  • SONEX Panels

    Whether we notice it or not, every room sounds differently. The way sound reverberates around a room is unpredictable and controlling it requires a range of solutions based on room size, building materials, and a host of other factors. Luckily, SONEX has created acoustical panels with a wide selection of shapes and styles to accommodate any room. SONEX open cell foam acoustic panels are designed with a porous structure engineered to trap sound rather than reflect it. This allows for increased control over the acoustics of any room like never before and gives you the ability to reduce sound transmissions quickly, efficiently, and without breaking your budget.

  • Soundproofing on a Budget

    In the past, soundproofing on a budget meant stapling empty egg crates to the walls and hanging blankets from the ceiling. However, times have changed. Today, if you need to soundproof your home, office, or an outdoor area, there are plenty of available materials from which to choose an affordable solution. The materials you use will depend on the type of room you will be soundproofing and what level of noise reduction you require. In this post, we’ll go over some simple tips for soundproofing any room on a budget.

  • Tips for Soundproofing a Home Theater Room

    These days, you may be planning to finally make your dreams of a home theater come true. When you love movies, television shows and video games, a home theater will definitely improve your quality of life. As great as home theaters are, they tend to be quite noisy, which means that you’ll probably want to soundproof the room.

  • To Echo or Not To Echo? Soundproofing for Home Theaters & Recording Studios

    Two of the most common spaces for soundproofing projects are home theaters and recording studios. In both of these spaces, enhancing the quality of sound in the room is important, but this has to be accomplished while simultaneously decreasing echo and preventing any sound from leaking out of the room. Let’s dive into some strategies that can help you achieve this recording studio and home theater soundproofing paradox.

  • When Rondo Sound Baffles Are the Perfect Choice

    When space is limited and you need sound-absorbing technology that isn’t visually distracting but has some architectural style, SONEXⓇ Rondo sound baffles are an excellent solution. Available in a variety of colors and configurable vertically or horizontally, Rondo sound baffles are great for large interior areas due to their ability to prevent noise buildup.

  • Whisperwave Your Project From Top to Bottom

    When it comes to controlling the acoustics in a common workspace, it's important to consider style as much as function. A standard rectangular acoustical panel might not fit with a modern office space design, and sizing options could be limited. Or maybe the space in question is a modern music venue. These spaces want to be as comfortably stylish as they are functional. In either of these instances, Whisperwave™ panels are a fantastic option.

  • Why You Should Soundproof Your Bedroom

    We all need sleep to maintain a healthy mind and body. The average person needs about 7 hours of sleep each night, totally about 2,555 hours a year! In the end, you’ll have slept for almost 30% of your entire life. However, sleep isn’t a numbers game – not exclusively at least. The quality of your sleep is crucial to your daily performance, mood, and overall health. If you are not waking up refreshed each morning, it could be that you aren’t sleeping well enough because of unexpected noise pollution disrupting your sleep.