Even just doing this on the portion of the wall directly behind your computer will help, if you don’t want to/can’t afford to do all your walls.
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limitedduck@awful.systems 4 days ago
If you want to reduce how audible you are outside your room you can add some sound dampening material to your walls and door and seal air cracks around your door. Those black spiked foam wall panels or heavy curtains are probably best for sound dampening, but something as simple and cheap as paper egg cartons on your walls will greatly reduce how much sound gets through.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
but something as simple and cheap as paper egg cartons on your walls will greatly reduce how much sound gets through.
Hadn’t come across this before, thanks!
silly follow-up
would keeping and rotating the eggs improve the sound dampening?
Bongles@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Like the actual eggs? I would have to assume yes. That’s more material for sound to have to travel through.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
yeah, but you gave me an even better idea: fake eggs filled with even more dampening material! it would be eggstravagant!
Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you should also crack them and smear them all over the wall for maximum effect.
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So, there’s a difference between sound absorption and soundproofing. Curtains and foam panels can do wonders for making your room sound better acoustically but won’t do much to lower the amount of sound getting out. The only way to actually soundproof is either by adding a bunch of mass (bricks/concrete blocks/mass loaded vinyl) or by creating air gaps (or some combination of the two). Conflating soundproofing and sound absorption is very common but they are different. . Paper egg cartons will do little to nothing for either sound absorption or soundproofing; this myth comes from old style sound absorption foam tiles that kinda looked like egg cartons and where therefore referred to as such.
You’re absolutely right about sealing door gaps helping though.