How to Use Moving Blankets for Sound Dampening
Updated on 07/29/2024
Moving Blankets have become an essential moving supplies for protecting sensitive surfaces during a move. Did you know that moving blankets can also be used for their sound-dampening properties for crystal-clear audio recording? Moving Blankets can quickly improve your audio and video production quality while on a budget. Let’s begin.
Traditionally moving blankets have been used to protect sensitive surfaces ranging from wood, and glass, or even prevent antiques from receiving dings, dents, or small scratches. Moving Blankets are manufactured with several layers of heavy-duty fabric and sewn together using an “S” stitching pattern to bind the layers of polyester and cotton blend material together.
The primary way to determine how much protection or materials moving blankets use is by the weight per dozen moving blankets. This is the industry standard way to determine how much protection or material is used to manufacture the blankets and the amount of protection you can expect. The industry standard size for moving blankets is 72 inches by 80 inches in width.
One of the added benefits of using many layers of material and the “S” pattern stitching pattern is its ability to reduce sound pollution during recordings. This helps to provide you with higher-quality studio audio recordings for a fraction of the price of alternative acoustic foam.
How Moving Blankets Can Be Installed for Sound Deadening
Moving blankets can be installed for sound-dampening purposes using grommets to hang the moving blankets, double-sided tape, or a variety of other installation methods such as glue, staples, or nails. Whether you are recording a podcast, a new music release, a voiceover, or producing a video production moving blankets are one of the most cost-effective solutions for reducing excess sound.
When hanging the Moving blankets on the walls it is important to provide about a 2-inch space between the moving blanket and the wall. This helps to reduce sound from outside of the exterior wall from coming in and noise from echoing off of the interior walls of your recording location. While hanging moving blankets 2 inches from the wall is not required to reduce sound, it provides a nice added layer of sound dampening.
Moving Blankets help dampen sound across midrange and high frequencies. Moving blankets help to enhance the acoustical response properties around your recording area to reduce standing waves and minimize smearing. This helps to deliver crystal clear sound without hearing reverb in your recordings.
Which Type of Moving Blankets Remove Sound The Best?
When choosing which moving blanket will provide the best sound-dampening results, refer back to our weight per dozen. The heavier the overall weight per dozen moving blankets the larger the amount of protection or in this case the more sound that can be absorbed for sound dampening.
Furniture Pads – Trusted by professional movers and are our heaviest weight per dozen moving blankets. This blanket weighs approximately 85 to 93 lbs per dozen and is made with a cotton and polyester material blend. This is our best sound-dampening blanket.
Van Pads – This would be considered our in-between grade of moving blanket and offers great protection at a great price. This moving blanket type weighs 78 to 87 lbs per dozen.
Warehouse Pads – This is our lightest moving blanket and is our most affordable moving blanket. This moving blanket offers a limited amount of sound dampening due to fewer materials used to manufacture it. This moving blanket weighs approximately 54 lbs to 64 lbs per dozen.
We sell our moving blankets by singles or by the dozen moving blankets to fit your needs best. If you have any questions, need a quote, or if you are interested in purchasing a moving blanket for sound absorption you can reach our experts at 800-444-0956 or purchase online to get started today. We look forward to helping you produce your next sound recording or video masterpiece.
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Check out this awesome video from Youtuber, David Manning who takes a deeper dive into the theory of testing if moving blankets can be used to improve audio..
In this video, David shows us how 4 heavy-duty premium moving blankets can entirely revamp his studio to remove excess sound pollution. The results? Great, quality sound for under 70 dollars for 4 moving blankets at the time of recording. David goes in-depth by showing multiple different microphones to confirm the differences in the audio recording.
According to Moving Blankets USA moving blankets have been used as a way of sound dampening for even some of the largest artists such as Jay-Z in his early album debuts with Linkin Park seen in the picture above. Moving Blankets have been a hidden secret in the music industry for decades and are extremely commonly used for upcoming artists who may be on a limited size budget.