I looked around and didn't see what I was looking for, I probably missed it. If I did let me know. I basically want to sound proof a room a little bit. It's an upstairs bed room. I don't want to go all put, but what it a little quiter for the neighbors. I want to put my drums in the corner and sound proof the two walls it's facing.
1) Will this do anything at all?
2) I saw some "soundproofing" adhesive squares on Amazon for a decent price. Has anyone tried these?
3) I open to advice.
Thanks!
There's a huge range of possibilities here - from doing things that won't really help at all (like your #2 there) and doing things that are probably way out of your budget (or ability to modify your dwelling). But...
... that doesn't mean that there might things that could be done that might help. As you put it - to make it a bit quieter for your neighbors.
Sound travels from your drums to your neighbors in basically three ways - directly though the air, indirectly by making the wall between you and your neighbor vibrate - passing the sound the drum onto your neighbor. That vibration can happen directly - bass sitting of a floor making it vibrate. Or indirectly, loud drum sound hits a wall, making it vibrate, and transmitting it sound outdoors towards the neighbor.
So first - make sure there are no air holes allowing the sound to go straight outdoors.
Second - the best sound proofing comes with two separate, beefy, well sealed rooms, sitting one inside the other - with the inner room floating some form of isolators. Great - very expensive and chews up tons of space. And again, really expensive.
So less good would be one beefy, well sealed room. Still probably beyond your budget.
Anyway long story short - let's look at the walls (wall) between your drums and the neighbor. Up stairs there probably isn't a door. But there's probably a window. Consider your wall which likely comprises - a layer of drywall, then an airspace, then some form of siding (stucco or other stuff). That's fairly beefy - but the window, absolutely far less so.
One common solution is to make a window plug - a beefy, sort of panel that can be placed to seal off and block the window. Weatherstripped so no air gets around it - and beefy enough to kind of match the wall itself.
Beyond that - it's pretty much a case of making the walls beefier. Meaning adding another layer of drywall - but this is more complicated than that - because reeks havoc on all of the room's moulding (window, door frames, baseboards, etc.)
But window plugs can be much more temporary.
I've never done it - but I would imagine sitting the drums on a piece of plywood - sitting off the floor on neoprene/rubber spacer - could help decouple the bass drum from the structure.
So mainly, focus on air leaks and beefy up windows and doors.
