by Guest Thu May 07, 2009 5:22 pmOne of the many things I want to do to my 66 G10 is sound reduction. As far as the dog house goes, this is what I was going to explore.
In my sound proofing experience, (done a few quiet rooms and recording studios), the key to sound reduction is having two non continuous solid surfaces, (you may have heard a 'room within a room'). The density and thickness of those surfaces counts to an extent, but what I found is you get like 80% there just by having two walls that don't touch.
So considering that, I figure fabricating an inner dog house out of some relatively thick gauge sheet metal, (providing there's enough clearance for it), that attaches to the outer one at the base could potentially do a lot towards insulating you from the growl of your 6 or 8 pounding under your elbow. The weak link becomes the floor, but there are things one can do for that as well. Cross that bridge later.
Anyone ever explored the sound proofing and sound reduction in their vans? I'd be interested in any tricks you've discovered.
Cheers,
Heavy
In my sound proofing experience, (done a few quiet rooms and recording studios), the key to sound reduction is having two non continuous solid surfaces, (you may have heard a 'room within a room'). The density and thickness of those surfaces counts to an extent, but what I found is you get like 80% there just by having two walls that don't touch.
So considering that, I figure fabricating an inner dog house out of some relatively thick gauge sheet metal, (providing there's enough clearance for it), that attaches to the outer one at the base could potentially do a lot towards insulating you from the growl of your 6 or 8 pounding under your elbow. The weak link becomes the floor, but there are things one can do for that as well. Cross that bridge later.
Anyone ever explored the sound proofing and sound reduction in their vans? I'd be interested in any tricks you've discovered.
Cheers,
Heavy
