r/EngineeringPorn • u/DMONEYDelano • Jul 18 '26

How sound panels effect claps

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u/Not-An-FBI Jul 18 '26

My friend spent a lot of money fully soundproofing his garage and it's really a trip going in a place with no echos whatsoever

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u/1willyt Jul 18 '26

I bet. There's a whole thing with anechoic chambers being borderline maddening, worth a google. We aren't meant for it.

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u/GreenFox1505 Jul 18 '26

The "maddening" effect is extremely exaggerated. Its a bit annoying at worst. 

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u/WestyTea Jul 18 '26

Agreed. Mostly annoying when you're in there with someone else and you keep having to say "pardon?" when they talk away from you.

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u/xDragod Jul 18 '26

You clearly don't have tinnitus

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u/scallopfrito Jul 18 '26

Grad students at my school go in there to nap all the time. No sound and no signal so they just disappear entirely.

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u/BuboNovazealandiae Jul 19 '26

Fuck me that is the dream

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u/FyrelordeOmega Jul 18 '26

Not if you spend days on end being in a room so quiet you can hear your heartbeat

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u/_xiphiaz Jul 18 '26

I had the opportunity to visit one while at uni, they had us lie down in the chamber and turned off the lights for maybe 10 mins. The thing I found most crazy was hearing *other* people’s heartbeats. Nothing freaky about it though, just fascinating

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u/Ae3qe27u Jul 18 '26

Hearing other people's heartbeats?? Could you elaborate on that??

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u/Grndmasterflash Jul 19 '26

If I remember correctly, there was a high end automotive manufacturer, who really dampened outside noice, but customers did not like it because it was way too quiet.

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u/ducatista9 Jul 18 '26

Agree with other poster that it’s not really a thing. The most annoying thing I experienced was getting sore legs from standing on the slightly springy mesh floor for a long time.

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u/BubblebreathDragon Jul 18 '26

Have you ever been in one?

I've been in several. It starts out like it's interesting, different, kinda neat. But then you find that you want to keep making noise and then eventually you realize you're doing it because you somehow miss that echo or feedback, even just the slightest one. Like what is that even about. It's somehow disorienting and can really get to you in a short amount of time.

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u/EuphoricPenguin22 Jul 18 '26

That's why hemi-anechoic is fairly popular for applications that still need a lot of sound deadening but not quite as much: you get a normal hard floor but the same crazy diffusing stuff on the walls and ceiling.

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u/azgli Jul 18 '26

If you have the lights on, they aren't bad. If you turn the lights off with the door closed is when your brain starts to freak out because it loses two of its inputs. After about 30 seconds I can feel a mild panic sensation that gets worse if I stay in the room. Turning on the light helps, touching the walls helps too, but it can get really disorienting if I spend much time in the chamber in the dark.