Wow that looks really nice! Are those padded cushions on the wall for sound dampening? Would you mind sharing a little of what you learned about building rooms for drums? My wife and I recently moved into our first house and we planned on having a room dedicated to my drums. We also just had our first child and it looks like the drum room may never see the light of day. Anyway, great job and sweet kit!

James

Sweet thread Randy!

Here's my drum room. Just a bedroom in my house. No special sound treatment or anything. Surprisingly, the room sounds pretty damn good. The drums aren't exactly vintage, but I hope nobody minds... :p

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Cheers,

Ryan

Nice drums fellas. I really need to take pics of my kits in my drum room. My room has foam on the walls and is ugly but functional. I amcleaning mine out right now and making room for my Yamaha Recording cutom kit. I tried out my new 16x16 ft last weekend. It rumbles real horrorshow. I am gonna try and set up the whole kit and see if it's comfy to play with all the toms 8/10/12/13/14/16/22kick. I will probably put my 14x14 ft on the left side along with my popcorn snare. This kit will strictly be for fun and practice as my gig kit is usually just a 5 piece. My gretsch kit is large too but sans the

13" tom. I would love to get a 13" New Classic tom. I love having the option to play a 4 piece 13/16/22 or 10/12/14/22 or even 8/10/12/22. It just depends on the music but I like the variety of the tom voices. Okay, sorry I am thinking out loud.

bulldog,

Don't forget the 10-13-16 tom set up for your RCs, ala David Garibaldi. That's a really cool setup as well. What you see in my drum room is 10-12-14ft-16ft-22. I also have the 13 tom, which like you allows me so many freakin possiblities!

Laters,

Ryan

I am just too computer illiterate to even get a pic up on this forum. I know it's 'cos I have a mac, and pic resizing programmes just don't work on my computer.

Anyways- I am having trouble getting foam to stick to my walls. I was buying a mattress topper per week to reduce noise in my drum room. I have one piece falling down after repeated tacking...

Suggestions?

Three ideas come to mind on this:

Use those nails that they use to put housewrap on houses. They are pretty thin nails, like 6 0r 8 penny, with a big green plastic washer on each nail. This wouldn't be the most attractive way to go, but they would hold up egg crate material, no sweat.

http://www.bestmaterials.com/plastic-cap-nail.html - This is just a picture of what I am talking about. Lowe's and Home Depot sell 'em.

My other idea would be to cut a bunch of 1" strips off of luan and use these to drive a nail through the strip, through the foam, and into a stud. The studs are probably every 16" in your house, this is typical if you didn't already know. This is what people used to do when they put plastic over their windows in these cold Pittsburgh winters. If you wanted a finished, refined look, then you could even use a decorative piece of trim or a nicely finished sheeting board.

Lastly, you could make your own carpet strip type things that would have bigger nails coming through, facing the room. You could then "hang" the egg crate off of these. After further review, I probably would go with one of the first two ideas as this would lend itself to someone being possible impaled given the right circumstances.....DOH

toodles

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It's in my basement, so the walls are CONCRETE!!!!

I may make some frames with acoustic fibreglass and put the foam over that.

Thanks for the suggestions.

When you said a piece was falling down after repeated tacking, I assumed tacking meant nailing......DOH

You could just run a 2x4 around the top of the wall and hang the bed topper from that. I would think gravity would eventually keep it hanging straight down.

I built the absorption panels on the wall. They are constructed using 1x2 furring strips. Here is a great video showing the method I used. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYUpkpL0gw[/ame]

I chose recycled denim insulating batts for the "sound dampening" part. Normally these traps are built with rigid 703 fiberglass insulation, but I myself have children in the house, and the idea of breathing or touching partially exposed fiberglass was a turn-off. I used 1 package of the Bonded Logic denim and it cost me $76 delivered. http://www.bondedlogic.com/ultratouch-cotton.htm

As far as the fabric, it was a trade-off with my wife. Normally I've seen black fabric or burlap on these panels, usually the cheapest material per yard. But my condition to getting a dedicated room in the house was to have something more "finished", so we decided on 3 different fabric patterns from Joann Fabrics. The material was a little more $ per yard, but again, worth the upgrade.

The results are a tighter sounding room, especially in the low frequencies. My bass drums have more whoomp! The highs from the cymbals are tamed, and overall I think the room sounds MUCH better. Be sure to at least put bass traps in your corners. 90 degree corners are very bad and allow standing waves.

Without adding up the totals, I estimate this cost me around $300. That is all materials, plus a gallon of paint from Lowes.