It works! It works it works it works!

[solarbird]

It works! It works! The sound baffle actually works! It totally hammers the server-room noise down off the floor. I'm so relieved.


My God - It's Full of Ugly

It's an overlapping two-sided carpet wrap around a 3/4" PVC-piping frame with extra structural details in back!


My Gods - It's Full of Ugly in Back, Too

The handle assembly comes off, but also serves to make sure it leans a little forward for better fit against the doorway trim. The green cording is to pull the carpet tight against the interior frame; there are pairs of cords at all the major tautness points, to let me alternate tightening each pair; I imagine that it'll need to be re-tightened several times over the next few weeks as the materials settle into place.


Installed

I obviously made it specially for this door location, but it could be used anywhere I wanted to dampen a room's sound a little bit to, or if I wanted to use it as a back panel behind a performer with a tightly directional mic.

I'd like to build a couple more, but this is the problem I really, really had to solve. Tomorrow, when everything else is quiet (unlike today, with washing machines and such going) I'll be able to get some really solid noise level measurements. I think they'll be good.

Comments

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Way cool!

Interesting that the carpet you used for a sound baffle and call ugly is nicer than the carpet in our living room!

Cathy

[solarbird]

Probably not really. It's cheap and thin. It is new, a remainder scrap that I ended up getting for about 20¢/square foot - but even in quantity I think you'd have been looking at as little as 70¢/sq. ft. and no more than $1.20.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Is that an old-skool Western Electric telephone I see?

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

I think it's either an Automatic Electric or Packard Bell. The finger stop is too low for WE; theirs were at 4 O'clock position on the dial, but AE was nearly at the bottom.

Yeah, phone geek. Bah. :)

[solarbird]

Man, you guys aren't even on the right continent.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Oh good Christ! Siemens....

[solarbird]

Nope!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

OK. knowing you, it's probably Japanese?

[solarbird]

Yep! A gift, actually, from sksouth! So: name the company, anyone?

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Automatic Electric, from the Burquitlam plant, I'll wager. ^_^ And the baffle looks nice.

Jam?

[solarbird]

Getting by the most trivial of degrees closer. But the degree is extremely trivial.

eta: And by closer I do not mean geographically.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Arû, I shall have you know that "trivially closer" has been our exceeedingly-lucrative métier for many years.

'Better' is generally the enemy of 'good enough', anyway. ^_^

[solarbird]

Nope! Try again. Also, see my reply to hubbit.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Looks like it should make an excellent kitty climbing rock, too! :-)