New Acoustic Damping Adhesive from Green Glue

[donepearce]

It is DAMPING, not dampening. Unless he is spraying water on it, of course.

[matics19]

@donepearce Dampening can also refer to a reduction of intensity, so it makes sense as well.

[donepearce]

@matics19 No, it can't. DAMPING is the word for that. Dampening means making slightly wet.

[matics19]

@donepearce

dampening

present participle of damp·en (Verb)

Verb:

Make slightly wet: "the fine rain dampened her face".

Make less strong or intense: "nothing could dampen her enthusiasm".

See the second definition. Google is a thing, you know.

[TheSly100]

The glued tile also has steel inlets holding it to the wood, meaning the sound is transfered directly to the wood frame, yet the green glue has a black rubber bands holding it to the inlets. Not saying green glue doesn't work, but just saying that the mounts are making the difference even more pronounced. To be fair they should of used the same for both.

[mikeylee2001]

It's better to stagger your walls. Green glue is very expensive and I can still hear my neighbors. I used three tubes of green glue per each dry wall sheet.

Air or space is still better.

[mikeylee2001]

It's better to stagger your walls. Green glue is very expensive and I can still hear my neighbors. I used three tubes of green glue per each dry wall sheet.

[IcechickenSr]

I am very interested in this product simply so I can skip the track channels and Cleats to Isolate and create a floating wall, it would save me some money for sure. I was wondering If I was to still use the age old tried and true meathod of using sheer mass and installing either 1/4-1/2" MDF over all of my walls and celing with still possibly home made "Z cahnnel wood strips for an outside covering of drywall if this could be OK for a good Home studio, and kill of volume of drums and such. IC

[SoundprooferTed]

gilbertbuttos works for the company he is promoting.

Green Glue has four times the damping capacity of the other brand, meaning you have to use four times the volume of the other to match the damping capacity of Green Glue. See tthe independent laboratory data.

Same street price, also.

[skaboosh]

So the fact is doesn't dry out is a major part of the reason why it doesn't transfer the sound? How long til it does eventually dry out? does it ever dry out?...say 20 years from now do you get a reduction in effectiveness?

[mikeylee2001]

Unfortunately, even with green glue you can still hear your neighbors.

[kayomichael]

@mikeylee2001

How long have you had the GG for? I heard it takes 30 days to cure. Also, How thick are your drywalls? Did you Isolate and noise seal the outlets and light cans? Use a hat channel? Did you do your ceiling and floors too?? I am interested in GG but your comment makes me hesitant. How much of the GG stuff did you use?

[gilbertbuttos]

I have been going through soundproofing products and I found that quietrock is very promising. Their product quietglue is about $35 is cheaper than green glue.

[gilbertbuttos]

I have been going through soundproofing products and I found that quietrock is very promising. Their product quietglue is about $35 is cheaper than green glue.

Also they both have the same test data results.

[devinity101]

I am looking to apply a layer of Quiet Rock over an existing layer of sheetrock for a combonation band practice/ recording room. what do you think the STC rating would be to use this product between the layers and in the gaps between sheets? would the outcome be worth the expense?

[SoundIsolationStore]

@devinity101 The best bang for the buck would be to go with either the QuietRock or Green Glue. Green Glue would be more effective than the QuietRock and cost less overall, but combining the two wouldn't provide a significant boost over using QuietRock alone or using Green Glue alone.

[uncoverbrother]

thank goodness! i don't have to shoot my upstairs neighbors after all! JK

[GabeTheDrumme]

so this product will cancel sound from going through walls of will it make the room less echo-y

[SoundIsolationStore]

The price for each Green Glue tube is really pretty reasonable given that 1 tube of 11 ounce silicone caulk is around $5 and 1 tube of 28 ounce Green Glue is around $14. Silicone caulk is .45 cents per ounce and Green Glue is .50 cents per ounce.

Anyways, the video above is one of the most interesting sound isolation videos posted. Shows a lot in regards to the effectiveness of Green Glue.

Check out our site to learn more about Green Glue.

[BuildThisRoom]

The comparison of silicone against green glue as a means to apply both as a constrained layer damping material is not only wrong, for someone that is in the market to sell these items, it shows a lack of information on your end.

Silicone caulk, if used between building materials as an adhesive is the same as throwing money directly out the window, It [silicone] has no comparable ability in respect to green glue, none.

Education, not speculation.

Brien

[SoundIsolationStore]

@BuildThisRoom - I think there may be some confusion there on your end. I wasn't suggesting to use silicone caulk instead of Green Glue, but responding to a post below that said they should bring the price down to the same as silicone caulk. I was merely pointing out that the two materials are roughly the same price per ounce...

[BuildThisRoom]

Which reads like a comparison.

This would have been a good place to inform the prospective client on how the two are different, what the differences are and how to implement one or the other in an acoustical environment.

To be fair...silicone has little place in an isolated room.

I'm just saying.

By and large, it's your customers that benefit from your education, not mine. I do not have any ;)

[devinity101]

@SoundIsolationStore I am not trying to say that your product is anything other than what you claim but silicone (however ineffective) is NOT 45 cents an ounce. it is actually 21 cents an ounce. your product is over twice the cost of silicone. that said i do believe you have a good and valuable product. but, as someone else stated, if it were closer to silicone I would buy alot of it.

[SoundIsolationStore]

@devinity101 Real silicone caulk is anywhere from .45 cents to .55 cents per ounce with a price of $4.47 to $5.97 per 10.1 ounce tube (according to current prices on Home Depot's website). Regular latex caulk is definitely cheaper at around .20 to .25 cents per ounce.

[StabbyMcButterPants]

Now if they can bring the price down to the averge price of silicone caulking, then maybe the rest of us will buy it in mas truck loads. :)

[htjames101]

It's DAMPING not DAMPENING

Visco-elastic materials work not by decoupling as alluded to here but rather by a conversion of vibration to heat.

[mikeylee2001]

Can you please market this at Home Depot.

[lukauskis]

i want to try it in my home made vocal booth. i dunno if i can get it here, i neastern europe...