JSB99
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I thought I'd show how, and why I went through the extra lengths of isolating as much noise as possible.
I mix and record music at home, in my home studio, which is right across he hall from the grow room. My studio is dead silent, especially after I relocated my PCs to a non-adjacent room. In the grow room have 3 inline fans, a 70lpm commercial air pump, and a 400gph water pump, all going at the same time, but the room is virtually silent as soon as the door shuts. Even in the room, it's much quieter than many.
First thing I did was to hang my air pump, and suspend my water pump, so that no vibrations were making it into the walls. I then surrounded my air pump, and a fan I usually have running higher than the others, with dense foam sound isolation wedges, used for bass traps in home studios. If I had bass to trap in the grow room, I would have wedges in each of the eight trihedral corners of the room, where they are most effective. Since I eliminated any bass that would have been caused by the pumps, all I needed to do was surround the air pump with the blocks to absorb the high and mid frequencies. The foam converts absorbed frequencies into heat, but not anything that's noticeable. The water pump is tucked behind the reservoir, and is suspended in air by the pump manifolds, which helps isolate noise from that pump. Because there are a lot of hard surfaces around the pump, I could add padding to capture any reflected waves, but there's not much space, and the pump would probably start heating up. I'm able to keep the air pump at room temperature by having my tent exhaust fan blow on the pump. This really extends the life of the pump, helps keep temps down (especially the air going to the stones), and it allows me to really surround the pump with blocks without worrying about temps.
I've just got the blocks shoved up there, but I plan on cleaning it all up.
Here you can see how I have my exhaust fan blowing on the pump, which is suspended by hooks from the ceiling.
My studio across the hall...I finished building the desks, and setting up the room a couple months ago.
I love my 25" ultrawide monitors!
Sorry, just wanted to show off one of my hobbies outside the grow room.
I mix and record music at home, in my home studio, which is right across he hall from the grow room. My studio is dead silent, especially after I relocated my PCs to a non-adjacent room. In the grow room have 3 inline fans, a 70lpm commercial air pump, and a 400gph water pump, all going at the same time, but the room is virtually silent as soon as the door shuts. Even in the room, it's much quieter than many.
First thing I did was to hang my air pump, and suspend my water pump, so that no vibrations were making it into the walls. I then surrounded my air pump, and a fan I usually have running higher than the others, with dense foam sound isolation wedges, used for bass traps in home studios. If I had bass to trap in the grow room, I would have wedges in each of the eight trihedral corners of the room, where they are most effective. Since I eliminated any bass that would have been caused by the pumps, all I needed to do was surround the air pump with the blocks to absorb the high and mid frequencies. The foam converts absorbed frequencies into heat, but not anything that's noticeable. The water pump is tucked behind the reservoir, and is suspended in air by the pump manifolds, which helps isolate noise from that pump. Because there are a lot of hard surfaces around the pump, I could add padding to capture any reflected waves, but there's not much space, and the pump would probably start heating up. I'm able to keep the air pump at room temperature by having my tent exhaust fan blow on the pump. This really extends the life of the pump, helps keep temps down (especially the air going to the stones), and it allows me to really surround the pump with blocks without worrying about temps.
I've just got the blocks shoved up there, but I plan on cleaning it all up.
Here you can see how I have my exhaust fan blowing on the pump, which is suspended by hooks from the ceiling.
My studio across the hall...I finished building the desks, and setting up the room a couple months ago.
I love my 25" ultrawide monitors!
Sorry, just wanted to show off one of my hobbies outside the grow room.
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