Best brand for sound dampening
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Topic: Best brand for sound dampening
Posted By: lilboi
Subject: Best brand for sound dampening
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 3:43 PM
I'm interested in what companies make good sound damening material. I know that dynamat is one of the best, but the most expensive. I'm wondering if you tried other companies such as brown bread, raam mat, fat mat, or any others. I'm looking for something that's best bang for the buck. Thanks
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Posted By: stevdart
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 4:28 PM
brown bread...what the pro's use.
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Posted By: ANeonRider
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 5:32 PM
b-quiet also.
Posted By: godd dan it
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 8:38 PM
It depends on how much you want to spend. Dynamat is expensive, but alternatives like fatmat raam mat is less expensive and can get the same job done.
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 11, 2004 at 11:31 PM
I recently put Fat mat all round in my car and it works excellent and very good bang for your buck.
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Posted By: Chad7n7
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 2:51 AM
CAE also makes sound deadening in various forms, and is also reasonably priced
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Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 8:09 PM
Yea, i heard all these names before, I'm thinking about spending less then 50 dollars for 100sq feet. Any good sound dampening companies have great prices for great material? Sorry, I'm chinese.
Posted By: Teken
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 9:14 PM
If you're on a tight budget then you can go to the local carpet outlet and purchase the rubber under padding used for basements.
They come in various thickness from 1/8 to 3/8th thickness. The going rate is $3.00 a yard.
You may also go to Walmart and purchase there Rubberized undercoating which is made by Bondo. It sells for 1.78 a can.
Just another option for you.
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EVIL Teken . . .
Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 10:19 PM
well i dont' want to go that route. but from all those sound dampening brands, which one is the best? for price and quality.
Posted By: auex
Date Posted: August 12, 2004 at 10:24 PM
Be clear about what you want to use it for. If for rattles it will pretty much do nothing, depending on what is rattling. For eliminating road noise and any type of external noises then it is good.
Basically what I am saying don't buy it and expect all the rattles to be gone.
Also I like rubberized undercoating.
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Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 13, 2004 at 11:06 AM
how well does that work?
Which ones of these are most effective?
brown bread
fat mat
ramm mat
b-quiet
Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 1:49 PM
any one?
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 1:53 PM
I like and have heard fatmat recommended the most out of all of the brands. The fatmat brand ratt mat works really well for rattles, although it is more expensive. The normal fat mat works decent thought for preventing rattles and works great for sound purposes. Hope that helps. ------------- Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.
Posted By: MBZ oe
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 5:01 PM
I personally love Dynamat Xtreme. It does what i's supposed too, doesn't stink, applies easily without heat gun, sticks like crazy (especially if you pre-clean with denatured alcohol). It took 7 bulk-pak 36sq-ft boxes to do my entire car with multi layers in trunk. You can get a good price on ebay. Look for seller named Webtroi. If you buy any from him tell, him the folks with the "Poundin' gold mercedes sent you and he might give you a better deal. I have also worked with brown bread and recommend their better product which is called B-Quiet Extreme. It is the equivelant to Dynamat Xtreme. Here's the link: https://www.b-quiet.com/extreme.html ------------- BOOM, BOOM, BOOM BOOM....
Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 8:11 PM
damn 7 layers? how many feet does it take to cover the inside/trunk of a small coupe (prelude).
Posted By: archemedes
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 8:15 PM
alot of car restorers are using peel and seal (a roofing material) and say they get no smell it's available at lowes usually. I haven't tried it yet, but might on my next project
Posted By: lilboi
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 8:50 PM
i couldn't find that stuff.
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 9:13 PM
MBZ oe dint say he used 7 layers, he said that he used 7 bulk packs. Doing several layers in the trunk in comparison to one layer everywhere else. I would start out with 100 sqft and see how far that gets you prob like ur trunk and ur doors (coupe right, dont think they make a sedan prelude do they ?) ------------- Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: August 15, 2004 at 10:22 PM
Brown bread works great but the roof would be a pain in the a$$ so I would use rubberized undercoating availible at any hardware or auto store
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