Cheapest place to get sound deadening material?

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

I'm gonna be putting in some nice speakers in my doors (factory locations) and I'm thinking that I want to try to do some deadening. Wheres the cheapest place to get some sound deadening material?

Also, any good pics for a noob on how to do it?

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[mikescanlon 10+ year member]

lowes sells peel and seal.

or FATMAT on ebay is same as dynamat extreme, 100 bucks for 100 square feet, you can get 50 squares, taht'll do two doors just fine.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

if you'd like ill sell you 50sq.ft. of fatmat. that's about the cheapest deadening you will ever get.

 

[XtrmAudioCncpts 10+ year member]

eDead is cheap

does fat mat work?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Cheapest isn't always the proper way to do it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

lowes sells peel and seal.

i used peal and seal in my car, but after looking at the deadener challenge thing that was posted a few days ago, i started to wish i hadnt...

you might as well pay the extra bit of money up front to do the job right the first time...

 

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

Whats the deadener challenge?

Also, how much of a difference does the deadening make? I mean, this stuff gets kind of expensive.... I want to do it right..but at the same time...is it $100 worth of differnce? SHould that $100 been spent for better speakers? Just playing devils advocate...

SS, how much for the fat mat?

 

[mikescanlon 10+ year member]

i used 2 layers of fatmat, i work at a shop and do this professionally.. fatmat= dynamat, brown bread is better.. but if you want to be cheap, get fatmat, it works great, and it's really cheap.

http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

SS, how much for the fat mat?

i still havnt even unwrapped it, so somewhere around $40 +shipping. I bought 100 sq.ft. off ebay and I really dont want to deal with any more deadening.

 

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

PM'd you SS.

Dumb question:

So, is the purpose of deadening more to stop external noise from enterning the cab....or to help the speakers sound better by deading the sound behind them?

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

both. it will keep some road noise out, and it will keep the metal from resonating. its main purpose is to deaden the resonating properties of metal, so that you hear just what the speaker is reproducing, and not the added harmonics of the metal it is attatched to or surrounded by.

 

[kingsxman 10+ year member]

So that would explain why people do thier whole door...rather than just the area behind the speaker.... correct?

I guess its still a bit confusing to me. In my car, my speaker sits in the factory location. Its an opening in the door. Inside the opening is the area between the outside door and inside door. Its large. I actually currently have my crossover in there wrapped in a large bath towel so it doesnt bang around and the towel absorbs sound. (probalby a really dumb thing..). Anyway, would the fatmat go INSIDE the speaker compartment (inside of door) AND on the outside of the door facing the inside compartment of the cab?

 

[Ayrton 10+ year member]

Unless something has changed, Fatmat is the same asphalt based material as P&S. I had heard that FM was supposed to be the same a DM, but clearly it is not. RAMMat is the best bang for the buck deadener.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

i was gonna say home depot's roofing shit...... ive used that stuff and it works

 

[lslugz 10+ year member]

lowes sells peel and seal.

Some people say that it falls off, but i never had any problems with it. I would also say peel and seal is a great choice for the price.