Regecide
Jun 16 2003, 08:22 PM
Well I'm just in the process to sound deaden my doors using some Brownbread.
Is it really worth it to cover all the service holes in teh doors with tape and MDF like in the technical article?
I mean, it's not as though it creates an air proof enclosure in the door.
What are your opinions?
Alex
Fudd
Jun 16 2003, 08:54 PM
i did it and it made a huge difference in the midbass!! definitly worth it!
Tha Hombre
Jun 16 2003, 09:00 PM
It's not that you want to create an air proof enclosure, but to minimise the back sound wave cancelling the front.
I would definetely cover the service holes with MDF, as Retro has said, it will make a considerable difference to the midbass and it will only take you another half hour to do
Dom
John L
Jun 16 2003, 10:12 PM
I didn't cover the holes with MDF - just covered the holes over with the Dynamat Xtreme.
I don't know how much of a difference it would have made if I covered the holes with MDF - but it still sounded really good.
SupaSwift
Jun 16 2003, 10:26 PM
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Originally posted by Tha Hombre:
.........it will only take you another half hour to do
Dom
WHA!!!! maybe for some cars, i've seen some cars have a piece flat piece of metal to work on, which i agress would be a cinch to do, but others have all these complex curves and shapes, doing my swift doors took nearly 1 whole day to do the doors. thank good for expanding foam!!
Regecide
Jun 17 2003, 12:14 AM
Fair enough.
It's just that I have done one door with sound deadening and covering the service holes and it didn't make all that much of a difference, a little bit and I think most of teh rattles are gone, except in the door opening device arghh.
Oh yeah and I gotta find some other tape that doesn't stink quite as bad as the one I got now.
Alex
T-Bro
Jun 17 2003, 02:54 AM
to deal with curvy doors, i used fibreglass to mould a cover for the service holes, then fixed this with gaffer tape so its secure but also removeable.
and yes its worth doing if your speakers are mounted in the factory locations, though less important if you're using door pods where the speaker is already isolated from the rear wave.
Sathid
Jun 17 2003, 03:40 AM
it made a BIG difference in my car.
it takes AGES to sound deadon doors, but a comparably short time to block the service holes.
i used cardboard in mine, and i put a whole bunch of silicon on it to help weigh it. i found the carboard good cos i could bend it.
doesn't flex either.
Anthrax
Jun 17 2003, 09:52 PM
to get rid of all rattles and sqeeks, firstly clean your door metal inside and out with wax and grease remover! use heaps of it! on everything!
wait for that to dry up, and after a while attack all moving parts with WD40, grease up your lock rods etc etc
you can add foam and rags and such material to cradle the lock rods at various points too! i took the time to add foam sqaures over each screw connnection so that when the screws were put back in place they would pull the trim onto a picece of foam, night and tight AND QUIET!
use as many layers of tape, FG, sound dead matting, MDF, glue, silicon and sound dead paint etc to dead those doors! cover the service holes as much as you can - and then some! totally kill those doors!!!
add matting and paint to the back of the trim, add foam and carpet to the points where they make contact to the door metal!!
DO ALL OF THIS!
take weeks or months if you have to (like me!!)
THE MIDBASS IS WORTH IT!!!
bassmekanik
Jun 18 2003, 01:14 PM
my doors have a half a can of supacheep sder in each total and enuf MDF to cover every hole then the whole door is covered in duct tape now my front splits sound like a single 10" if i up the bass 1 click on the volume dial (2Db)
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