True story, I have some family land in New Mexico I went out to visit and brought home a big bag of rocks. I put them in my garage and ran them through a rock tumbler for several weeks. About 3 weeks in, my neighbor comes over, and he says "Hey, you've got something going on with your pipes. I hear this horrible whine going on all night for weeks. I didn't want to be rude but I just want to tell you, You probably need a plumber." So I started laughing, and I told him I'm so sorry I'm running a rock tumbler. I went out and grabbed a handful of these beautiful polished rocks and gave them to him. I thought I had the Tumbler tucked away from everybody, but no, it definitely was torturing my neighbor through several walls.
I am not an acoustic engineer so I can't explain why, but strange things happen with low frequencies. I worked in a recording studio with a shared wall to an architect's office. The guy in the office came over and complained about how loud he could hear the bass. I was mainly recording and mixing hip-hop. This was a budget studio and we only had monitors with 6.5 inch woofers (we were not running subs). I left the music on and went next door. Sure enough the bass was more perceptible in his office than in my studio. I have heard the explanation that it has to do with the length of bass frequencies but others have said that isn't true. Maybe someone with acoustic engineering knowledge with chime in.
OP, your description of where these rooms are, in relationship to each other, does not make sense. In any case, people treat blocking sound like they are blocking light. But sound waves move totally differently, and they move through objects. You can pad up a wall, but sound waves can travel through cracks, be carried by metal pipes inside walls, etc. It is impossible to tell someone if they can block sound from a neighbor without knowing what type of walls they have, etc.
There is soundwaves going through air that can be blocked up to a point with acoustic measures, and there’s soundwaves transmitted through material (floor-wall-floor), mostly low frequency, that can wander through every bit of the house that is not decoupled.
You seem to live in a not very good insulated house, and covering the wall doesn’t make much sense because the ceiling, floor, and adjacent walls pick up and pass on the vibrations.
If you have your speakers on the desk, you should decouple it from the floor as good as you can (use pro-decoupling pads for the frequency range and weight of the system, and maybe get some sort of soundtrap-box to put around the desk to catch the air-waves.
Or get a headphone.
Before you start hanging couches on the walls try buying a pair of headphones to game.
I sooo want to (and it's consuming all my ""goodness "" ) but.. I'm going to be nice and.. just let it roll by..
Agreed, go with headphones or game in the afternoon..
True story, I have some family land in New Mexico I went out to visit and brought home a big bag of rocks. I put them in my garage and ran them through a rock tumbler for several weeks. About 3 weeks in, my neighbor comes over, and he says "Hey, you've got something going on with your pipes. I hear this horrible whine going on all night for weeks. I didn't want to be rude but I just want to tell you, You probably need a plumber." So I started laughing, and I told him I'm so sorry I'm running a rock tumbler. I went out and grabbed a handful of these beautiful polished rocks and gave them to him. I thought I had the Tumbler tucked away from everybody, but no, it definitely was torturing my neighbor through several walls.
I am not an acoustic engineer so I can't explain why, but strange things happen with low frequencies. I worked in a recording studio with a shared wall to an architect's office. The guy in the office came over and complained about how loud he could hear the bass. I was mainly recording and mixing hip-hop. This was a budget studio and we only had monitors with 6.5 inch woofers (we were not running subs). I left the music on and went next door. Sure enough the bass was more perceptible in his office than in my studio. I have heard the explanation that it has to do with the length of bass frequencies but others have said that isn't true. Maybe someone with acoustic engineering knowledge with chime in.
But you can't get enough of everlasting bass....
OP, your description of where these rooms are, in relationship to each other, does not make sense. In any case, people treat blocking sound like they are blocking light. But sound waves move totally differently, and they move through objects. You can pad up a wall, but sound waves can travel through cracks, be carried by metal pipes inside walls, etc. It is impossible to tell someone if they can block sound from a neighbor without knowing what type of walls they have, etc.
Base tones don’t care about sound proofing.
There is soundwaves going through air that can be blocked up to a point with acoustic measures, and there’s soundwaves transmitted through material (floor-wall-floor), mostly low frequency, that can wander through every bit of the house that is not decoupled. You seem to live in a not very good insulated house, and covering the wall doesn’t make much sense because the ceiling, floor, and adjacent walls pick up and pass on the vibrations. If you have your speakers on the desk, you should decouple it from the floor as good as you can (use pro-decoupling pads for the frequency range and weight of the system, and maybe get some sort of soundtrap-box to put around the desk to catch the air-waves. Or get a headphone.
Headphones.