Do Sound Booths Work For Drummers?

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0:00 This is a WhisperRoom
0:58 Build quality
2:17 Touring the inside
3:30 Volume tests
7:06 Results
11:58 Final thoughts

[JeffRandallDrumming]

I’ve received a couple questions about the temperature within the booth since it’s being used in my garage. There was originally a section where I talked about this in the video but I chose to edit it out to keep it centered around the sound reduction.

The booth comes with a ventilation system that’s mounted to the outside. It pulls the inside air out and sucks fresh air from the outside back in. This removes the CO2 buildup from within the room and keeps it comfortable inside so long as you use it in a climate controlled room.

However, I chose to set mine up in the garage to have it on a concrete slab and to be further away from everyone in the house. So I purchased a portable ac unit and ran a hose from it into one of the intake valves of the ventilation system. Its pushing cold air into the booth and is working well!

For all the details you can check out their website below. Btw, this is not an ad for them. I purchased this booth used and just wanted to share my experience with it.

[jphifer]

Absolutely one of the most valuable drum noise control videos! The different locations and the discipline of getting the measurements of the two kits, PLUS the tutorial on db/noise level relationships was so valuable, and so well done. Great editing, too - you got right to the point. Thanks, Jeff!

[NikkoNikko]

Whisper room better sponsor our boy asap, this was super informative & dude your house looks great! Happy for you! 🔥🤙🏼

[tuhadrums]

I get the feeling half the reason for making this video was to convince the wife

[gsdota]

Bro this video is crazy!!! Whisper room should be paying you. This is such a well done video! Love your playing brotha

[adrian___a]

Looks pretty neat! My solution was mesh heads + low volume cymbals + bamboo rods. No complaint from my neighbours which I take as a compliment 😁

[Pubwie]

The house looks great as well. Well done man.

[cfusilier]

Ironically, I had to watch this with sound off and I don’t have headphones. So, it really put your experiments in perspective. Excellent video, and very thoughtful. I hope this goes great for you and the family.

[alexvesper]

Of all the drum influencers, you are "way ahead"! Super professional, very personable and modest in the best sense! Bravo!

[garrettcobbs]

I'm getting "Man tired of arguing who just wants to enjoy his thing." vibes. Hope this excellently crafted video helps in more ways than one. Keep up the great work!

[KCRAE]

Wow Jeff, you really drilled down into the details here and I appreciate it! I didn't know that it reduced the loudness that much. Considering that your house is very quiet inside, imagine how well they will hear it with typical activity going on inside the house such as TVs, tablets/phones and other things. Here's to hoping that you can continue to play. Thanks again for all that you do.

[ivorjones]

Thank you for the data Jeff, love your determination to over come noise challenges with your family. Great work.

[ronmuniz]

This is just like the practice rooms we had in college. In my music department we had these cubicles lined up inside a hall with space between the top of the practice room & the hall’s ceiling. Heavy doors with an audible swoosh of air when closing it. You still heard a little from the outside, but not enough to disrupt an ensemble rehearsal in the next room. A great investment for sure!

[actionreaper]

If I had enough room I would get that. Really nice

[eggsplain]

God forbid someone farts inside the booth

[jonfoster]

This is awesome dude! So stoked that you have this space to be comfortable in and not be worrying about noise anymore! I'm planning on building a similar sized drum room in my garage from scratch, since these Whisper Rooms are a little out of my budget atm.

[C_Shay_]

Normally I'd think its common sense that an isolation booth of any sort would make a big difference, and that's still the case but the level of detail you showed and experimented with to really test the difference is awesome. Great video for sure.

[BharCode]

Hey Jeff, thanks a ton for putting this up. There is no fail proof solution provided by any other videos. All the DIY and hacks are not at all working for our set at our apartment. Especially vibrations can't be controlled unless it is a double room or a cabin with air gap between the solid walls. After a several failed attempts, I'm planning to get the similar thing done. I'm planning to get a 7Feet by 6Feet, just enough and a bit more room for acoustic drum set alone. Would it bee too small to play for longer time? If possible please share the size of this cabin?

[JackLStroem]

If you want even more dampening I'd recommend putting some heavy duty wheels under the whole booth (assuming it has a rigid baseplate, if not you could just make one!) most of the noise would be leaking out of the door and be transmitted through the floor!
If you don't mind how it will look you could also throw several blankets over the booth and have further noise reduction!
I built my own studio recently and succeeded quite nicely with my noise spillage :)

[lloydanthonycalabria]

I also encounter problems such as this, when neighbors around my house are complaining about the noise when i play drums, thats why i went to buy an e drums for an alternative, so that i have full control on the volume so that i can practice at night after work, but i got an idea what sir jeff is showing us right now, on how to soundproof or better much how to transfer your studio to an ideal place such as this like a pocket room👍❤️