I live in a busy apartment, and at times I worry someone will hear what I’m up to. Anybody have any tips or tricks to quiet down The Handy?
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Get a 3D printer it fucks nonstop.
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I don’t personally own a handy, but I’ve read lots of complaints about them; that makes me an expert, right?
One thing I’ve read is that part of their maintenance is that they need to be re-greased occasionally, and if you don’t do that they get significantly louder.
Depending on if your device is new or not, that could help.
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use foam or something to dampen the vibrations on your desk
you can also drown out the noise with a small fan, like a good powerful circulation fan for like $15
there is actually no such thing as drowning the sound out, sure if you are trying to stop yourself from hearing it in the same room but it does not cancel out or knock off sound, it may feel like that in the room but any sound waves that could be heard from outside of the room will still go through (and a lot of the time will filter out the fan sound so you are back to square one)
also making some kind of thicker or more solid blocking won’t help as it will just direct the sound, think of it like moving water around, sure you can thicken up a direction but that moving water has to go somewhere.
the only 2 true ways to lessen audio for this kind of thing are 1 ) sound dampening - where the velocity of waves are absorbed and slowed down through foam. frequency are dampened by the thickness of the foam/absorption so eg thin sound pads/egg crate will help with the high pitch sounds like clapping in a room but will do nothing for lower frequencies as they just pass through and bounce off the wall.
an easy way to see what kind of frequency you want to cut is to run the device in another room and measure with an EQ app on the phone, you can see which frequency are causing the peaks and there are heaps of calculators online to tell you how thick material you need but this whole process will barely help unless you line a whole room.
- Resonating panels - this is where most people have true issues with devices being heard outside of the room, audio vibrates panels which in turn output more audio, normally not an issue with smaller devices but these vibrate and essentially act as a huge speaker, the other bigger issue is if attached to some furniture it can and most likely does vibrate through the floors or walls incredibly loud. decoupling is king here, is it bolted down to a desk? is that desk pushed into the corner of a room? if the desk touches a wall at all it will transfer all that vibration through the wall into sound, just pull the desk an inch away from the wall. trying to make the desk float in midair off the ground is rather difficult so stopping those vibrations is the only way.
they make a whole bunch of hard rubber solutions for this. if you look into pads and links to do this exact thing for washers and dryers they are designed to stop the shaking of laundry machines resonating through the floors/walls.
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