Booya Tribe

It is a rented commercial space. As for budget, the budget is "as cheap as possible." It needs to be done and will be done, but needs to be done as cheap as humanly possible without being an eyesore. There are a few rooms that need this done, so I think $400 per room would be too much.

Thanks for the input so far. Like I said, I am willing to do he work, just cant spend alot on materials. Sheetrock isn't that expensive. What about two layers of that? How effective would that be? One thing I should have mentioned is that I don't need to block sounds of loud drums or amplified instruments so much as groups of talking people in one room from being heard inside the next, where it needs to be very quiet. What about sandbags in the walls? I have no idea how much that would cost, just an idea.

I am looking for the cheapest way to do in-wall soundproofing or some method of sound proofing that will allow the walls to look nice/normal (ie: can't hang carpets on the wall). I am looking for isolation, not acoustic treatment. A creative, DIY solution is what I am looking for. I can do the work, but can't afford the expense of the specially made products. There are insulation and foams that are available for soundproofing, but they are all spendy. Is there an alternative to this that isn't going to break fire safety codes? What about putting another layer of drywall over existing drywall (I don't know how effective that would be), or some other dense material that is cheap, but safe to put in walls? I am open to your crazy schemes. Fire away.

This is such a wrong statement. Not wrong as in false, but just misleading and ignorant. Each "act" has to get a start and every genre does it differently. Every genre has it's own common protocol from beginning to end. While playing the same clubs works for some, it doesn't work for the others. I also think it is a weird statement, or maybe misleading, or maybe true but based on only a certain genre or location... I used to be in a band that would get invited once or twice a month to play in a city about 5 hours away. I always thought it was weird and wondered if people would just get sick of us, but it didn't happen, in fact, the shows just kept getting bigger and we kept selling more and more stuff... so, maybe as an overall statistic, it is true, but it definitely isn't the case universally. I guess it wasn't always the same venue we were playing, but I don't see how the venue would be an issue over the city, as the same crowd was showing up more or less no matter what venue it was.