Anna recording you struggling with the insulation while laughing is peak marriage material 🤣

@AnnaDoes

Ай бұрын

It was sooo entertaining 😂

@kurgisempyrion6125

Ай бұрын

@@AnnaDoes Your laughter at his misshaps was hilarious :)

@patrickmcgovern4004

Ай бұрын

I was thinking that very thing.

@brando3342

Ай бұрын

@@AnnaDoes 😂😂😂

@tablix5275

Ай бұрын

"Woman enjoys watching husband struggle" alternative title

Most lumber stores will precut boards to length for free.

@arthuralford

Ай бұрын

*Now* you tell him! :P

@burrfoottopknot

Ай бұрын

yeh but we love watching Dawid do manual labor

@rustafar_2354

Ай бұрын

@@burrfoottopknot It was barley manual. 🤣🤣

@poeticsilence047

Ай бұрын

​@rustafar_2354 He needs to work out more. Lol and stop dreaming of his waifu.

@kontonce89

Ай бұрын

That ikea drill lol

looks like a very fine-toothed backsaw meant for molding and trim pieces. Probably the worst possible saw to use in this case, other than a metal hacksaw.

@TheDeviant88

Ай бұрын

Amazing to take on any project by himself but definitely worth some tips. Perhaps a better, more appropriate saw would help with this but there was way too much pressure being applied. Also cutting the wood at a slight vertical angle would help a great deal. I don't know who advised that kit, but they were very wrong.

@marklichem

Ай бұрын

I love it when tech KZreadrs do any kind of fabricating. But hey you need to start of somewheren^^

@bigratkiller1

Ай бұрын

It's called a tenon saw and absolutely the wrong tool for that job. Would never mention that until after he's finished though 😁

@poeticsilence047

Ай бұрын

​@marklichem The only one that is pretty good are Paul and Joe.

@marklichem

Ай бұрын

​@@bigratkiller1 Thats what you get for listening to some guy on reddit 😆

With those large mono-colored panels, you have a bonus feature! Chroma-key backgrounds so now you can do "green screen" work! Just remember to light them correctly! Now we can get things like "Dawid in Space", or "Dawid gets chased by dinosaurs", or even "Dawid hunting for bargin bin tech", which is you, dressed as a hunter, stalking along, looking for elusive and poorly animated GPUS with anime waifus on them.

@snjert8406

Ай бұрын

Or "Dawid catches an STD from a sketchy gaming laptop Windows install"

as someone who loves woodworking, watching you saw those planks with a small saw like that and on the ground no less was interesting to say the least. I respect the amount of work it mustve taken. but getting a workbench of sorts helps massively because your arms will be in a more relaxed position for sawing. and just in general, youre gonna need a bigger saw. one made for wood planks with bigger teeth. the one you had in this video is more for small thin pieces of wood and things like dowels and rods. sawing at an angle also helps reduce friction massively, instead of placing the saw straight on the block of wood, place it angled on the corner and start from there.

@MrWayne6363

Ай бұрын

Yeah, not really a carpenter, but that miter box and saw are for trim work, not 2x4's LoL.

I admire your sawing, I'm pro handyman and I'll give you 10/10 just for passion, everything was wrong about it, but your had determination and it is always satisfying to see end result after suffering.

I do a decent amount of carpentry, and fabricating work, and you did alright. Not alright for a noob, but actually alright. I have some concern the rockwool is going to slide down inside the panels since the walls are fabric and will stretch, so you may want to add some dowels for support. Also, a skil saw, and some cheap saw horses will make you life much easier (and all that costs less than a Wish GPU that is not a 450).

I don't know about hardware stores in Canada but here in America you can rent power tools from Hardware stores.

@brando3342

Ай бұрын

We definitely have those here lol I think Dawid was just strict with the budget 🤣

@Gimli8621

Ай бұрын

@@brando3342 39 bucks here to rent a proper saw for the day. Anyone can fit that little bit into a budget

@ccoder4953

Ай бұрын

It's also not that expensive to just buy a saw. You can buy brand new miter saws for like $150 or circular saws for about $50. Less if you hunt around Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. In my local area, $100 or less gets you your choice of miter saws. Either tool would have made his life so much easier. Given his general lack of proficiency with tools, I would recommend the miter saw - easier to not get hurt with that. Given that he spent $21 on that miter box with saw, a bit more for an actually useful tool seems like a good investment.

@Zerbey

Ай бұрын

You can, but it's way funnier watching Dawid struggle with a comically small saw, and we appreciate his dedication to it.

@Gimli8621

Ай бұрын

@@ccoder4953 Unless you do this all the time, why buy something like this when he will use it very little or never again?

I remember when you moved in to that office and its really been 2 1/2 years? Time does fly by

@MrWoezoe

Ай бұрын

Same here man. When I read the title my first thought was that he was gonna do some work on his current studio 😂 Time does indeed fly!

Plot twist: Dawid buys the LMG "Langley House"

@buggerlugz6753

Ай бұрын

Honestly, Dawid produces far more entertaining content and hasn't sold his soul to the devil just yet. LMG did a long long time ago.

@davidtaylor-iw9kh

Ай бұрын

@@buggerlugz6753 dawid vids r good an d you lol at it Lmg once was good but now its just looked at me with all this money and tech you will never have i stoped watching Lmg years ago, lets hope dawid dont go down that path

@Pianoguy32

Ай бұрын

@@buggerlugz6753 So true, LMG now just a huge company with loads of grunts churning out random videos for a salary. Dawid makes me laugh ..

As an acoustics engineer, I really enjoyed watching, and I can tell you that having free standing panels like that is a great solution 👍 but yeah some carpet is a good idea, the reflections between a hard floor and a hard ceiling can be very annoying...

@Kelekona_808

Ай бұрын

I was wondering why free standing panels instead of just hanging them. Didn't know if there was any acoustic benefit to freestanding vs. hanging.

@tryllejens

Ай бұрын

@@Kelekona_808 The main thing in this case is that if they intend on trying to do a double wall, it is essential that the panels don't touch the walls, if they have any rigid connection, like screws, to the wall the isolation effect of the double wall is reduced greatly. Also, generally an absorber with an air gap behind it is a good construction. And lastly, with freestanding panels, you can move them around as you want, which could help you reduce specific frequencies, as the distance from the wall has an influence on which frequencies they dampen the most. Or you can move them around to target specific acoustic problems, like standing waves between two rigid surfaces

@JeskidoYT

Ай бұрын

Do you have any suggestions for soundproofing material that doesn't attract dust or tiny insects?

Dawid, as a nerd who also doubles as being handy, I can tell you so many ways this could’ve been easier…but that’s not the reason the community loves you (your antics). Glad you didn’t get hurt! Thanks for the entertainment, and great job! The panels look good 👍

A few notes: Staples should be parallel to wood so they distribute the load over a wider area of fabric when you pull things tight. Canvas dropclothes (for painters) are a cheap solution for a big piece of tough fabric and can be painted easily. Fill material choices should be chosen based on the frequencies you're targeting. Including layering different materials for a wider range of effect. Multiple narrow panels are better than one large one since fabric-sag can be an issue over time (albeit a cosmetic one).

you could add smaller panels diagonally in the corners to get a bit lower T60 since sound concentrates on corners, especially in the lower frequencies

@alecdonaldson6272

Ай бұрын

It's a good suggestion to add the corner traps, it just depends on the sounds you are making. If it's just vocal frequencies, the bass traps in the corners wouldn't be as effective as just covering more of the walls with some curtains (especially heavier curtain materials) and putting down some carpets. Those corner traps are helpful for wider frequency ranges (guitar amps in a studio, etc) but might be a bit more expensive than just curtains or rugs for the vocal reverberations that might be happening here as he records his videos. Blocking out the sound completely is going to be difficult without modifications to the rooms (floated walls and ceiling using resilient channel or something like green glue for suspending the drywall layers) and in some cases aren't really ever possible because of the construction of the walls, floor, and ceiling. The drywall of one floor or room touching the studs and then the drywall of the next floor or room makes those vibrations transfer really easily. If he's blasting really low frequencies from a subwoofer it may be next to impossible to block the transmission into the other units because those low frequencies travel through thin materials like drywall very easily. An extra panel of rockwool won't really stop a low bass frequency with a wavelength as long as a city bus.

@lelluc

Ай бұрын

@@alecdonaldson6272 although true, when a wave hits the wall it's still at its maximum, this makes it easier for axial room modes to happen in the corners, even just having a simple diffuser to break up those modes can help immensely. Also yeah I forgot he's just going to speak so he probably won't need any expensive bass traps or resonators

Dawid: "Just need to edit that out" Anna: "No, hahahaha"

That lifeguard at 2:01 really took a shot at you, Dawid. Hope you can recover from that sick burn

For sawing wood by hand, i noticed that its alot easier if you go at a angle and rock the saw back and forth like a see saw

Incredible work. You are the only person to use a manual meeeter box since 1877. Made my day. Thank you!

@ck17350

Ай бұрын

Lol, c'mon now. I bought one for cutting the molding and trim pieces when renovating my side room. Honestly, it worked great, however I already owned proper saws for cutting making quick work of each cut. The miter box really is a super useful tool.

No Dawid! Your suppose to let the hand saw glide on the wood dont apply any pressure itll just go trough on its own and angle the saw aswell its much easier

@AtomikMenace

Ай бұрын

My first thought was "they rent power tools" But then I considered if the hand saw is a potential problem, how would a power saw in any shape go? 😅

@Deadguy2322forreal

Ай бұрын

*you're supposeD to

@tyqwax

Ай бұрын

@@Deadguy2322forreal idc😁

Do they not have pawn shops where you live? Pawn shops are go-to number one for cheap tools. You can get a mitre saw for $50, and return it for half when you're done.

@Boogie_the_cat

Ай бұрын

I don't have pawn shops where I live. In affluent tourist\college cities, pawn shops (and porn shops) are frowned upon. Weed dispensaries are fine though. California wants a piece of that 13% + 8.75% tax on weed. Pawnshops merely encourage meth addicts, and we have too many of those already. Thanks, Mexico.

@UnjustifiedRecs

Ай бұрын

Pawns shops sell almost exclusively stolen tools by crackheads. I'm not having it that Dawid doesn't earn enough to buy a basic DeWalt 18v setup

Man, full respect for perservering with that saw - absolutely horrific saw for that type of work, as it's more made for finer jobs/detail. Much more coarse saw needed - and doing it on the floor, where the angles are all wrong - damn. Kudos for sticking with it! (By the way, most stores will pre-cut the wood to lengths for you................)

Every DIY project I have ever done occurs something like this - in the end it is very much 'that'll do' as I race to get it done so I can go and lie down. I too have struggled with the mighty mitre box!

Props to you for doing the science and math and showing the RT60 graph. It's actually extremely useful and has been used for decades to help treat rooms for music studios professionally.

Year 2030: the studio will be as big as an country

@mohammadnoorqorayte5381

Ай бұрын

I can't wait 😊

@jonbrandjes9024

Ай бұрын

Dawid Does Tech Stuffistan

@reniervandermerwe

Ай бұрын

a country.............

@Edgemaster72

Ай бұрын

Glory to Dawidstan!

@phylanx1

Ай бұрын

Gotta get the tax write off

I LOVE the way Anna laughed @ you through the entire process, God bless her little soul...you're a lucky man Sir.

Pre drill screw holes so the wood doesn’t split.

Over here in the UK B&Q (our version of Home Depot) sells insulation made of recycled plastic bottles which is just like rockwool except it doesn't leave shards of glass in your arms when you work with it.

@Njazmo

Ай бұрын

There are no shards of glass in rockwool, it's the tiny fibers, that itch your arms a while.

Jeff Geerling did make a room inside of his new office space for the best sound isolation as possible. He also has a train running outside which barely can be heard with all the isolation. His main issue is the AC fan being noisy. He did also hire an arkitekt to design it and had professionals setup the walls. I did also recommend he could use leftover rockwool to make his own sound dampening panels.

I had to do LESS cutting than this.. and i said F it and bought a Ryobi circular saw for like $45. Worth it. Also, i'm doing a project similar to this and you actually gave me some ideas.. Thanks for your inadvertent assistance!

1:02 "Life's the same, I'm moving in stereo, Life's the same except for my shoes. Life's the same, you're shakin' like tremolo, Life's the same, it's all inside you" I wonder if that noise in the opening of the Cars "Moving in Stereo" is in fact a room equalization sound that the band thought sounded cool?

0:57 - with this and the serious-faced slow handclapping, it looks as if Dawid's getting into some 60s style avant-garde minimalist musical creation.

Oh Dawid, you're so beautifully out of your depth cutting that timber and I will love you forever for growing through that. I sincerely wish for you the most echo free future and may well all be so lucky to find someone who will so lovingly laugh at us as we struggle and grow.

Huge congratulations on your new space. And, you're proving to be quite a handyman to boot. I especially liked 6:33. You handled that position and voicing like a pro. 😅

the pannels do look very good a woman like anna is a blessing, you are a very lucky man dawid

Should have bought all of your building materials from AliExpress you silly man! 🔨 Anna is a trooper!

Having only basic woodworking skills myself... watching you cut 2x4's with a miter saw jig (intended for trim and fine detail cutting) made my head explode. So... cheers for that!

Absolutely mental to stay in Vancouver despite rent being the highest in the country. That's Dawid for you

@gintozlato1880

Ай бұрын

This isn't his house he's moving. It's his office (where he films the videos). He presumably doesn't want to move to an office that is too far away from his house, which seems very reasonable.

I love that you're moving to a bigger place, more room for crazyness

7:00 Happy to see I'm not the only one with a drill in their freezer!

4:22 I feel you bro, I feel you...

Great job, Dawid and Anna!

Bringing back memories of college, building sets in Theatre Tech class on Wednesday nights, SOOOOOO many years ago

This is so crazy to watch as someone who has NEVER thought / personally cared about acoustics. Congrats on the new studio Dawid!!!

Safe n Sound is really good. That's what I used in my whole house. I have renovated nearly the entire 3600 sqft 6 bedroom and every room and floor is full stuff with rockwool. So quiet! Then my music studio I made panels with the leftover insulation. It sounds great.

Gratzzzz on the new place, my fav part was by far 2:58 .

I thought he moved cause Dawid needs all that room for all those racing sims. Unless the bloatware on the upcoming pcs won't fit. Man those panels look so good great job ya'll

1) Don't use pressure treated lumber for indoor projects. It may be different now, but I was always told it will leak the chemicals it's treated in. Which used to be things like formaldehyde and Arsenic. 2) Since your "walls" are not load bearing at all the only weight they have to support is their own. You could have used 1x3. 3) If you had used 1 x 3 it would have been a lot easier to cut with that miter box, which is really only meant for cutting things like trim.

Love this additional content category!

Good choice with the rental van vs pickup truck

Thats why they say "Insulation is every homeowners own penance" lol. Great job

I was surprised that those few panels in such a large space still made a huge improvement.

You "edit that out" Anna "nope" best response ever

Let's go! New space I can't wait for more of your humor and wit so excited, thanks for all you do Dawid & Anna, it keeps me coming back.

You have the naughtiest laugh, Anna ! Poor Dawid !

Whenever I have to do a lot of sawing like this, I'll usually just rent a Miter saw from Home Depot or Menards. It makes the sawing a lot easier and renting one is a lot cheaper than buying your own if you aren't going to be using a it whole lot (or ever again). Lumbar places will also cut wood for you if you know the measurements, although I don't think I've ever asked someone to cut this many pieces for me, so I don't know how excited they would be to do that.

Yay new dawid does tech stuff video I love these days

Also, remember, since these are MOVABLE, you can change the size of your "ROOM" Bring them in to close the recording room and make it easier for you. For others out there that want movable sound walls, I recommend ROLLING clothes racks. About $20 USD at Walmart, can be artificially extended from their typical 6ft to 10ft with clever use of PVC piping and back to our old inexpensive friend FLEECE blankets. Another option, POP UP BANQUET TENT if you have a big warehouse space, and again, fleece blanket, so that becomes your recording room, can make one or all walls Green Screen Green, and should have enough room to shoot. your reviews.

Congrats! :) Lookin forward to watch the next video about this new space. Process is hard and frustraing I know but once it's done you're gonna be happier :)

The panels came out good!

Super lovly to watch. Keep going, i'm hyped for the next episode 💪 In case you might be using the box for right angle cuts again, you have to lift up the end of the beam you cut a bit so it will stay flat in the box :) Happy manual laboring

A friend of mine who is a musician used cardboard egg crates for sound proof of the walls. Its a really working way to make insulation on a budget

@TheREAPERBlog

Ай бұрын

Major fire hazard, low density material. I guess it’s better than empty wall. Dawid did it right here

Congratulations! Here's to further success n looking forward to new videos once you've set up your studio(s)

Getting all your gear up those four flights of stairs is going to be insane!

I love the cameo from the little robot speaker from the email inbox tech review episode lol

I had to put up some sound absorption panels in my office. I just used foam panels off amazon glued to quarter inch plywood panels. Even used alternating black and blue to match my color scheme and it turned out really good.

Congrats guys 👏 has been fun watching your channel grow.

I wasn't expecting those panels to end like that.. congratulations!!!

congrats on the expansion

The big power tool secret is to check pawn shops. You can usually snag medium to high quality circular saws for 40-50% of their new price. You'll want to buy a new saw blade though, the blades on pawn shop saws are usually beat.

@Gimli8621

Ай бұрын

Or just rent. Why buy something that he'll probably use very little or never use again.

this is painful and hilarious and I like that Anna makes you feel as bad as you should. epic relationship.

@hongtanke

Ай бұрын

you can make skin contact with rockwool...... you're thinking of the fiberglass stuff.

Dawid you need to get yourself a cheap 10" or 12" miter saw next time and just use that with all the sawing you had to do. it would have made your cuts perfect and each cut would have taken literally a fraction of a second lol. I have a miter saw and I use it for cutting firewood for my smoker even lmao, once you have one you can get whatever kind of blades you want for it and cut basically anything, even metal with the right blade, and it flies right through because the 12" blade is moving at pretty insane speeds right at the sharp edge. I put a metal cutting blade on it once to cut some titanium tubing and it flew through it like literal butter, and this is 2mm wall thickness GR2 pipe we're talking about here, it's not super thick but it's still titanium of a substantial grade. That 1.5 meter length of tubing can hold up my entire body weight no problem without bending, and cutting it with a hacksaw would take much longer than cutting the wood you worked, but it did it like it wasn't even there. Power tools are amazing but also kind of scary sometimes lol, still ya gotta love em when you have em. If you don't overuse them, a good one will last you a lifetime too

Wow, considering the size of that room and everything being solid, that improvement was shocking. I may consider a smaller version of this project for my home office. Thanks!

The foam from all the packaging of various past pre-build’s would have come handy now for the panels…😂😂, congrats on the new space 👍👍

Dawid Does Suffering is one of the most consistent sources of self inflicted suffering I have ever encountered. The commitment is real.

Manually building sound barrier walls was not something i thought i'd watch today but that was extremely entertaining

Congratulations on the new office Dawid and Anna!!!!

Dawid learned a valuable lesson about how cheaping out on tools makes jobs 5x harder than they need to be. Been there too many times myself!

I used to work in one of Rockwools factories in Wales and touching the stuff with your skin isn't too bad these days, it's the older Rockwool that's itchy af. If you're going to do a lot of DIY, instead of struggling with a hand saw, invest in a circular/table saw. As you found out, hand sawing sucks, it's worth the 100-150 bucks investment. Good luck with the move....

😂 I had to laugh at Dawid using the mitre box on the floor. For one, they have a lip on the bottom you are supposed to either clamp in the adjustable clamp bit of a workbench, or at least hang over the edge of the table / workbench you are on, this makes it flat and stops it moving. Also, how you do a sawing action when you are that much higher is funny! You'd need to be lying on the floor to saw like that, but the elbow doesn't move in that direction! 😂😂😂

You can move those panels a little to the left or right and get very different acoustic results. All spaces are different, so give it a go before buying more material. Thanks for the video!!!

Congrats!

Mmmm, so good. Why are moving videos so damned fascinating to watch. Loved this one. Especially how brilliantly you and Anna fit. The insulation mockery was perfection. Cannot wait to see more of this move.

Over two years since the last move? I've been watching this crazy channel too long since I remember that move clearly.

If the goal is to help make your voice sound better in videos, it might go a long way (and be a lot cheaper) to cover the remaining walls with some curtains (especially heavy curtains) and the floors with some rugs. Those frequencies can be tamed with very thin materials and you don't need to spend a lot on rockwool insulation necessarily for that. You can also hang curtains on the ceiling but it's super annoying. Those panels will work great for the reflections that hit them, so maybe figure out where you want to be sitting or standing for the majority of your videos and then position them to block the surfaces that are most immediately close to your voice. The other walls that are further away may be just getting reflections off of those closer walls anyway. I often suggest going to FabricLand before Rona when dealing with some yucky vocal reverberations. Tends to go a long way and be cheaper.

When you was suffering and your wife laughing at you struggling. Is the most realistic part of life I ever seen on KZread lol

Those are quite impressive panels. I don't know much about accoustics, but I believe that flat, parallel, and 90 degree objects are bad for accoustics. Furniture will probably help more than anything. Maybe hanging some "sheets" from the ceiling in your recording space will also help and be easy to install, move, or store when not in use.

Dawid... For next time... If you take the wood out of the jig once you have a groove, it's way easier. Also try to cut diagonally / work the groove around the wood.

Congratulations on the new space!

I remember when Dawid moved to the office space after moving out of the apartment. I can't believe that was years ago!!

Congrats Dawid, you deserve your success.

This is so cool! congrats!

Dawid, I feel for you, having to go all the way back to the hardware store because you forgot one thing. Happens every time. If you don't want to rent power tools, I recommend buying a 22 or 24 inch hand saw. Get the 2 by 4 off the ground on a table or a couple of saw horses so you can cut comfortably without having to kneel on the floor. GL

Congrats 🎉 I remember the vids in your home 😁 you came a long and good way. 😊

Anna's signature laugh! 👌

Congratulations on the new studio dude, well deserved 👍

Congrats on the new studio!

Buys a mitre saw, designed to cut mitres for a frame (intended use and would’ve looked way better), proceeds to cut 90s and still gets them skewed 😂 good job though, I’m impressed you stuck with that saw lol, thought you’d go out and by a cheap drop saw.

Mad props bro! love this channel!

Thankfully, your checkered history with hand tools continues.

I think he was regretting not taking woodwork class during this lmao