He has done alot at both houes he has lived into put all of his computer into another room. I wonder if he was having 2nd thoughts on running all of the USB and Display port extenders through the walls. Also about having to go down several flights of stair to go check on his computer when it won't turn on.
I worked in a lab where people complained about the noise the nitrogen generator made. The manufacturer stated that the device shouldn't be in the same room as where people are working unless they use hearing protection, but that wasn't really an option, neither was moving it. So they made a thing like this for it and charged an enormous amount of money. It worked great until it almost exploded because condensation couldn't evaporate and corroded the entire thing. So lesson learned: there might be more to worry about than just cooling.
@@SteveDice21 The situation being described is an analogy. The thing that is being taught by that story is that there may be factors that are not obvious at first glance that should be taken into account, because the first "what happens if I try this?" solution might have some problems with it.
@@Thalanox I used to leave youtube comments while riding my bike. It was fine until I crashed. Point being, I can't believe you took the risk to leave that comment. It's so reckless and dangerous... What's that? My analogy is stupid and doesn't serve any purpose? I guess you're right.
Just a suggestion from a long-time woodworker: when you're working with plywood a general rule of thumb is that you want to use blades with high tooth counts. I stick with an 80 tooth blade for my table saw when cutting sheet goods, but anything over 40 teeth should be okay if the carbides are sharp. For any other cutting tool, use whatever blade you have that's both sharp and has a high tooth count. The reasoning is that the higher the tooth count, the smaller of a cut each individual tooth makes, so it limits how much tearing you'll get because it's taking many smaller cuts at a time.
I'd would take this idea and incorporate it as the legs of one side of a home made desk. The other side I would do the same width and turn them into drawers for storage. This would be a neat and easy way of hiding all the wires too as you could channel the desktop to have the wires lay inside. Love these DIY that are affordable and don't require any special tools.
I immediately was thinking of the same thing, just give the front door and back panel of the existing cabinet an offset for the baffle walls and you'd likely get the same results
I am thinking of incorporating this in my new build. 2 pc's mounted inside an ikea alex cabinet. Keeping the original door. Putting 1 extra panal/door in behind that where the fans will be mounted in. Or maybe even a whole frame that can be pulled out for maintenance
Many years ago, I made a PC case based on this baffle box concept. The components were all mounted to an acoustically isolated metal plate, which is similar to an open air test stand. The box was designed to be roughly the profile of a standard two-drawer file cabinet. It fit under the desk, on wheels, so it could easily roll out when I needed to work on it. The top hinged up for super easy access to the components, as the motherboard was mounted horizontally. All air got pulled in through the bottom, through a standard 1' x 1' x 1" HVAC filter that could be easily replaced without moving the case. It had two levels for components: One for the motherboard and video card on top, and another for fans, a radiator for the water loop, and all the drives on the bottom. I loved it while it lasted, but I didn't anticipate how large video cards would become. I'll do a redesign when the kids move out and the loudest thing in the house is again my PC.
Safety tip for Nail gun use... Nail gun nails will bend to either side when going into the wood, so orient the nail gun such that it will send the nails into wood when it goes to the side, not out the edges. I.e. if going down a strip don't hold inline but at a 90 degree angle moving the nail gun sideways down the strip, not vertically.
@malachiclifton8795 But not when he was using the nail gun with someone's head directly on the other side of the piece he was nailing? A hand is one thing but hopefully they'll see enough comments about Jordan being on the other side to make sure not to do it again. That one is a potentially life threatening mistake.
Idk how 230 people understood this sentence and actively liked it. If you meant never put you hand on the other side where you are nailing, than yes. But “ step at other side of Nile gun” wtf Chinese bot
No need for high-end tools or fancy wood from home depot unless you're into that kind of thing. I used a chisel/screwdriver/handsaw to build one of these years ago out of some old furniture and packing foam i recovered from a dumpster near my apartment. ProTip: Best materials can be found near a college dormitory at the end of the semester
@@aaronalquiza9680 My bad for not mentioning it before, but there were plenty of medium-sized rocks in the ally behind the circle-k. You think I'm made of money or something?
Make it pretty by using paint coloured with lead (white), arsenic (green), hexavalent chromium (yellow), uranium (another yellow), or cadmium (red), depending on your colour preferences. Make sure you give the surface a good sanding before applying the next coat, save money by not using a dust mask, and breathe deeply while sanding, to reduce the dust you have to clean up. No one likes a messy workspace. One can only speculate on safety if you combine radioactive Uranium paint with lead paint...! Of course, if people don't realise this is a joke, and is really terrible advice, then... I take no responsibility.
Cadmium is what they used to make Tar Creek red, and the color has held for over 40 years! Talk about quality! cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0601269
I think these type of boxes were first DIY'ed to solve the problem of aircompressors in the shop. Those things can be deafening and literally cause hearing damage over time if you have it in a work environment. They work for anything though. While it's hard to push air through you can just brute-force since the extra noise won't really be an issue inside the box. It is absolutely critical that you use the S-shaped "sound trap" in your design though. Otherwise you will never get a good result no matter what insulation you use.
Its old, if you dig in some silent pc review or whatever forums people posted these types of solutions. Inspiration for the original Antec silent series of cases.
They are also very good at jumpscares. I have a "silent" compresorr at home ("only" 80db), it is quiet enough to not bother other people but god forbid forgetting to turn it off.
@@fritsfmn Maybe good thing would be to make entire pc case like this and optimize airflow for very quiet pc and then you could make it also much smaller.
Most important things to do... 1. Find the quietest fans, buy those 2. Undervolt your CPU and GPU (Afterburner, Ryzen curve optimiser etc) 3. Tune your fan curves the lowest they'll go without temps going up Now you have a silent PC
You dont have to undervolt it. Just buy quality cpu cooler (+ GPU and PSU) and fans and big case with good airflow. And dont be lazy to go to bios and set ur curve to whatever noise/temp ratio you like. But not to sacrifice performance and keep it quite comes with price.
Having done zero research into this, couldn't case designers make a PC case with thermals and noise as the main aspect instead of a stupid window to see parts.
some do, be quiet and some others have steel cases with foams inside to reduce noise and removable covers for if you want some more airflow at some noise cost
@@chrisk3127 yeah, but these are so expensives. Noctua and be quiet are definetly not cheap and the materials inside literally cost them nothing compared to the price we pay...
Older fractal cases had all metal panels with sound dampening on the inside, but customers wanted glass sides and lots of airflow. The (in)famous fractal black boxes :)
I dont get these astetic builds... i cant even see my pc from where im sitting.. or i need to put it on the desk.. and that would be more noise.. also spending money on components that look better instead of being faster is useless..
@@larsvegas1505 As someone with a boring black box with no RGB, I understand where you're coming from, however People who build builds like this person has, do it because it makes them happy and it's their money. Done. Easy, simple explanation. This explanation can also apply to other things people think are ridiculous. For example, I used to never understand why people would lift trucks if they never plan to off-road. It's stupid, it wastes money, you get worse gas mileage, you're impressing nobody, etc etc. However I would never account for the fact the person just like... Wanted to do it, because they felt like it, have the money, and have the freedom to do so. What I'm trying to say is that people can be haters sometimes when somebody is just doing something to achieve the same thing we all want: Happiness.
I've done it before. My dad wanted to hang a VERY heavy framed piece of art over his bed, and wanted me to help with that. I insisted on mounting a cleat to the wall with heavy duty screws across multiple studs and then screwing through the frame into the cleat. Went looking for wood, and found exactly what we wanted in the cutting scraps bucket, they just gave it to us lol.
FYI: decibel alone only makes sense when describing relative change: "It went up 2 dB" for example is fine. The 30, 40, whatever dB reading is dBA - which is dbSPL (sound pressure level, the actual Pascal pressure change) but weighted (A) to the human loudness curve (basically, the EQ of the human ear at different dbSPL. i.e. the louder something is the flatter we hear it in EQ and the "better" it sounds, generalizing here for brevity). No one on youtube gets this right, nor do those "it's as loud as an airplane at 120dB" (yea ok, at 1 cm away or 1 km away? and dbA? spl? dbv?) I trust Dan will help out to clarify terminology 😁😁 💪💪 (this is the start of where professions audio TECH and audio ENGINEER differentiate, and they're often mixed up). To clarify, i'm delighted the delve into basic acoustic engineering (it would have been nice to go into Sabine coefficient of the materials you guys used, it's just very interesting and quite basic) but a little more care would be really awesome from such a big channel with your resources!!
I built two separate wooden PC cases and have been running them for years - pretty easy to do and super quiet (I use them for both gaming and music production). I'm sure DIY Perks would make it so much prettier and more refined
@MiguelY22 yep, by using Acustic glass. basically its 2 layers of glass with a membrane in between to reduce noise. it mostly blocks out higher frequencies. it is also fairly expensive.
there's literally nothing wrong with what they're doing there... if it's not obvious there's clearly someone on the other side taking the wood panels... stop complaining over literally nothing.
@@bugz000 There literally is though. You never stand right behind the object you're cutting because of kickback. Doesn't matter if they have another person to hold the panels. No human is stronger than a 3-5HP saw.
@@gamingmarcus kickback on a panel of plywood only happens if you have the depth set incorrectly, or use an oblique angle toward the blade, both of which earn a darwin award, and neither of which are happening here. believe it or not, other people, besides your favorite woodworking youtube channels, are also capable of using power tools without getting hurt. these tools really aren't so complex to use, it's called not being a fn moron.
6:45 DIY Perks probably would've made the PC itself quieter, as he always does. I don't think he would've made a box to put the PC in, unless it's the PC case itself and he's making a custom one.
A lot of the time it can be quite difficult to find information on a product to find a replacement if it's never called by its generic name. There can also be differences between similar looking products that make them not work in that situation and are not explicitly stated in the video. It's often not as simple as buy the same thing by a different brand. You wouldn't want to spend time and money to build this only to later find out that the insulation they used was much better than the random stuff you grabbed that looked similar and because of that your box is pretty much useless.
For the soundproofing material, the best ones are those intended for cars. Use butyl rubber mat (formerly made of bitumen and the name still sticks) for metal panels. It will make them heavier but that's the point: the mass is what silences the low frequency hum. The panels should now sound vaguely like wood when knocked on. Then for any naked surfaces (including those covered by rubber mats), use a closed cell PE foam mat. This kind of foam replaced good old felt sound deadening. Mind the airflow and it may even improve cooling by forcing air exactly where it needs to go.
Simple tips that will greatly improve outcomes when working with plywood: Think about the direction your jigsaw blade is cutting. It’ll have the most tearout on the side the teeth exit the wood, so have the side that won’t be visible be that side. Putting a painter’s tape like frog tape where you’ll be cutting can help reduce tearout in materials like plywood (be careful when you peel it off that you don’t end up lifting the veneer with the tape). They also make reverse cut and two sided cut jigsaw blades that can help. When drilling through plywood, put a sacrificial piece of wood (like an off-cut of an old 2x4) underneath the plywood. This will dramatically reduce tearout. When nailing plywood with a nail gun, think about the direction the nail will want to bend. Linus’ finger when he was putting in his first nail was a prime target for a bent/deflected nail. These nails will bend in the direction of the shorter faces of the nail head (edited because I had it backwards before). You want them to bend inside the sheet good, instead of blowing out the face, so they did that right from what I can tell, but his finger was right in the potential path of the nail if it did encounter something in the plywood and deflect out the top.
I was thinking more along the lines of "why aren't they using MDF?" It's easier to work with and sounds deader. MDF doesn't have the structural strength of similar plywood, but would be fine for sitting on.
@@DanielFSmith I actually much prefer working with plywood over MDF. MDF is stinking heavy (which the added mass would probably be a moderate benefit in this use case, as you point out), and the dust is much worse for you if you breathe it in (of course you should have good dust collection, cut it outdoors, be wearing a respirator, etc. when cutting MDF, but I digress). It also does not hold nails or screws nearly as well as a quality plywood. To each their own though.
@@SangoProductions213 Nails meant to be hammered in generally have round heads and bodies to make them strong and easier to hit from all angles. An air nailer takes strips of nails in a feeder rail, the nails are shaped a bit like a ‘T’ with a flattened wide body. From the head of the tool (where they exit) it’s easier for them to bend up or down than left/right since the tool uses speed more than the structure of the nail itself to stay straight. They will bend in any direction though, and can over penetrate the wood and come out the back of the work if the tool isn’t adjusted for the type of nail/material. Fingers close to the nail (like what Linus did at first) is just asking for unexpected acupuncture. Wearing safety glasses is also a good idea.
This would make the most minimal of minimal of differences, but it's good woodworking practice anyway. When assembling the box you honestly don't even need screws. Wood glue the joint, and slap some brad nails in to hold it together while it dries. It'll be just as strong and will fully seal any possible gaps, especially since none of these boards are jointed or planed.
@@Lunch0guy Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, wanted to "show support" to Home Depot for political reasons. But he bought a single, small piece of wood to do so, and was widely mocked for it, for numerous reasons
@@Lunch0guy Ben Shapiro posted about shopping at home depot and he had a little piece of wood in a plastic bag. He made a fool of himself and everyone laughed at him
sonopan really needs to export or start up production in other countries. its freakin phenomenal. a properly done layer behind drywall in a home theater will demolish most noise. two layers and a removal of any air gaps in the layers and you can almost set off boom devices in said theater and have silence outside it. its ridiculously cool stuff, considering its just processed (and then reprocessed) wood materials. (and its fire resistant! and green! in several ways.)
What a coincidence that today I was *finally* ripping some plywood to make a near identical chamber for my cordless shopvac! And thanks for re opening the wound of sonopan's un-availability stateside. I'm gluing some acoustic foam and 1" cotton frost king insulation to mine. Absolutely sick build!
my bigtower fits well in a heavy-duty shelf, simply putting the mats around the heavy-duty shelf has finally given me wonderful peace, it's a shame I didn't do this 30 years ago
Why is this legitimately cheaper and better than most noise-cancelling computer cases? This should be made into a proper computer case. I don't care how it looks if it's that quiet.
@@c6q3a24 I think that's mostly because the entire case is inside this thing. It wouldn't need to be nearly this big if it was an integrated case solution.
They put so much more effort into this building than we ever do in theater stuff. Table saw, slap some wood glue on it, nail gun a nail every foot or so, done. Bambambambamdone. And predrilling a screw? Never
You clearly don't have much experience driving screwed into the ends of plywood if you don't see the need to pre-drill. I'll take it even one step further, that when drilling down into the face of the plywood, it helps to have a backing piece of wood so that the back side of the hole, doesn't splinter out.
@@jonatinoo you can also hold the bit in front of the screw, and if you can see all the threads and just barely see the shaft of the screw, it’s about right.
I'm not going to fall for the bait... I'm not going to fall for the bait... I'm not going to fall for the bait... I'm not going to fall for the bait... ... ...... ............ ........................ WTF is a kilometer?
@@uss-dh7909 Duh, it's three orders of magnitude greater than the SI - _Système international d'unités_ or _International System of Units_ - unit for length. Not difficult. 😉
You also need an extended power button or you will always have to open the box if you want to boot the PC. Many ppl are also still on wired peripherals too 😅
I’ll be honest, I genuinely enjoy listening to the sound of my computer running. To me, it’s an affirmation that the pc is working and that my fan curve is solid. I think it also depends on which fans you have inside as well. Mine are corsair fans and they have a nice and soft hum to them. Honestly if it wasn’t a power sink, i’d leave the computer running as white noise while I sleep.
I saw this concept in action about 10 years ago when I was passing a fireworks booth using a gas powered generator with some plywood around it xD Good job guy
Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.
Honestly yeah, I like having my pc in another room but it is very quiet even on my desk. But for a bit I owned a PS5 and that thing had to be moved behind the wall, I could not stand the noise it made if it was in the same room.
Measure twice cut once is something I never were able to do xD I measure 4 to 6 times and cut 2 to 5 times because I'm really really bad at these kinds of works. I'm glad I've got a friend who works with wood and knows what to do. For me the saying "A fool with a tool is still a fool" applies very well in these kinds of work.
Experienced woodworker here! If you’re genuinely interested in this project, get yourself a circular saw, a few clamps and potentially a straight edge. You can cut even huge pieces of wood this way, and that’s how I got started woodworking, pretty cheap buy-in too. I will say that something you should never, EVER neglect is your safety. You should not start working with wood without protection for your eyes, ears and lungs. They’re cheap PPE, but your body will thank you. Also, learn how to use these tools and understand common mistakes, you do not want to jump straight in and end up losing a finger over a PC upgrade!
Great series idea or sequel idea: Make it no larger than an ATX case and you'll be onto something. If you can reduce the weight without sacrificing sound deadening, you'll really be onto something. You could ditch the original case and mount the mobo to the wood wall and it becomes a "nearly enclosed" open air test bench. You could also play around with different materials. 3/4" plywood vs 1/4" luan vs 3D printed ABS-CF vs polycarbonate sheets vs aluminum, etc. Compare against an undervolted, underclocked, minimum fan speed PC with a chunky heatsink in a regular quiet-ish case. Personally, I'd like wood construction to keep with the "anyone can DIY with cheap tools for little money" vibe that you started here. I'd start with a 3/4" grooved base plate and top plate so that 1/4" walls with sound deadening attached to them simply slide in and out of the grooves for easy, tool-less access. You can make the grooves with a straight bit router with a fence/jig or a tablesaw that has a lowered blade that doesn't cut all the way through.
This is actually a principle that’s used in subwoofer box building quite often for something called a labyrinth port bc lower sounds travel further than higher sounds it works as a sort of filter I would bet if you added another turn or 2 it would be truly silent and I’d love to see this built into a desk
We've been doing that for miners that are awfully loud and the result is always shockingly good. One thing: you may use basically any mineral wool as a sound absorber and, personally, I would let hot air escape upwards i.e. layout all the labyrinth stuff vertically. As a bonus it would require less horizontal space.
Honestly, Linus I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that you had the awareness of your viewership that you offered up "metric" measurements. I can't tell you how many creators do not do this, even just out of some odd pride. I know your Canadian, but kudos.. really kudos to you all. Thank you.
Can't wait for Steve to put this through actual proper testing inside their sound chamber instead of just getting data telling everyone to just be quiet.
Revolutionary stuff here as LTT invents a sort of "case" to store your computer inside to make it quiet! Joking aside, I do wonder if any real case designer is going to experiment with double-layered cases for better noise isolation.
This has been used in the music industry for years. They're called iso-boxes. The speaker is put inside the soundproofed box with a microphone, which goes out to the mixing desk. You know all those speaker stacks you see in stadiums? All show, no go
I made something like this for two separate applications, for both light* and noise. Can confirm, it works well. UVC light can blind you and give you cancer, but my parent's house has a lot of mold. I built something that looks similar to what linus made, same size roughly, but a big exhaust fan on it and a giant UVC light in it. Produces a load of ozone and kills everything in the air of a room within a few minutes of running.
honestly, i'd like to see a desk version of this concept. get cheap case, heck even leave one side off, and then build this acoustically treated desk (with some dust filters on either vents). MAYBE I WILL MAKE IT FOR MY PC!
Wow, that comparison at the end! This is actually a great concept and well executed at a value price. Great job!! Ty for the shoutout haha xD
But do they even need a pc case at this point?
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how much we will have to wait to get a bronze or brass version? HAHAHAHAH
That's the size of a $3500 studio apartment in New York
@@randomfrankp mpre like 10k
Franky! You better come with receipts. Can't make claims without a source, mods gonna get ya. 😉
@@SycsFinest 3500? That's cheap for New York
That's why I'm getting ready to live in my valvo
you can extend it with galvanised square steel and eco friendly wood veneer
2:52 as an Australian who grew up with the worksafe PSAs, Linus not using safety glasses with a nail gun unlocked memories lmao
also he put his hand in the path of the staple gun 😬
Shake your hands with danger
"this principle can apply to all kinds of noise making things in your life..."
Baby goes in the box!
@@BarryTGash loud generator, build a wood box around it. Gun too loud copressor made of wood and gun encased in wood.
Could I use with my mother in law?
@@albertvolcom730 worked for me but i went one step further and buried it under ground
i dont know if it works without the last part 😂
It goes in the square hole!
@@veerakuusela5005 * cries *
I love that Linus says "It's like it's in another room" when in essence he built a separate soundproof room for it.
this is almost the exact same comment i was going to make
He has done alot at both houes he has lived into put all of his computer into another room. I wonder if he was having 2nd thoughts on running all of the USB and Display port extenders through the walls. Also about having to go down several flights of stair to go check on his computer when it won't turn on.
@@AdrianSchwartzmann Well the other half of it was for thermal reasons too. Iirc he wanted to isolate the heat generated to a single room.
I worked in a lab where people complained about the noise the nitrogen generator made. The manufacturer stated that the device shouldn't be in the same room as where people are working unless they use hearing protection, but that wasn't really an option, neither was moving it. So they made a thing like this for it and charged an enormous amount of money. It worked great until it almost exploded because condensation couldn't evaporate and corroded the entire thing. So lesson learned: there might be more to worry about than just cooling.
Computers generally don't create condensation, unlike nitrogen generators. But I get your point, you shouldn't apply this box do just anything noisy.
This isn't a nitrogen generator, though.
if they put a few tiny hole in top, hot air your go there. as it raises but I can see what you saw ad in the top the condense d air would form
@@SteveDice21 The situation being described is an analogy. The thing that is being taught by that story is that there may be factors that are not obvious at first glance that should be taken into account, because the first "what happens if I try this?" solution might have some problems with it.
@@Thalanox I used to leave youtube comments while riding my bike. It was fine until I crashed. Point being, I can't believe you took the risk to leave that comment. It's so reckless and dangerous... What's that? My analogy is stupid and doesn't serve any purpose? I guess you're right.
Just a suggestion from a long-time woodworker: when you're working with plywood a general rule of thumb is that you want to use blades with high tooth counts. I stick with an 80 tooth blade for my table saw when cutting sheet goods, but anything over 40 teeth should be okay if the carbides are sharp. For any other cutting tool, use whatever blade you have that's both sharp and has a high tooth count. The reasoning is that the higher the tooth count, the smaller of a cut each individual tooth makes, so it limits how much tearing you'll get because it's taking many smaller cuts at a time.
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Thank you for this. I have tears in my plywood cuts all the time and hope this tip helps.
Linus you'll stop putting your hand near the nail penetration zone once you attach your fingers to it...
I screamed seeing that
Me too😂
Linus is egg.
Was waiting for it to happen. Nail guns are all fun and games until you have to detach your bloody finger from your project.
He's the guy that lifts multi kg servers wearing only safety sandals. At least in some shots he's wearing safety glasses.
As someone in a maintenance position, Linus holding power tools and interacting with people is an anxiety i didn't need
Him doing a roll across the floor with a jigsaw in his hand... eesh...
I'd would take this idea and incorporate it as the legs of one side of a home made desk. The other side I would do the same width and turn them into drawers for storage. This would be a neat and easy way of hiding all the wires too as you could channel the desktop to have the wires lay inside. Love these DIY that are affordable and don't require any special tools.
I immediately was thinking of the same thing, just give the front door and back panel of the existing cabinet an offset for the baffle walls and you'd likely get the same results
would work great until you need to access the hardware for some reason, then you'd have to take the whole desk apart.
@@lorduggae you can easily modify this to be open from the side, no problem.
I am thinking of incorporating this in my new build. 2 pc's mounted inside an ikea alex cabinet. Keeping the original door. Putting 1 extra panal/door in behind that where the fans will be mounted in. Or maybe even a whole frame that can be pulled out for maintenance
Did yall just invent almost all "home desks" from 2008 and earlier?
Many years ago, I made a PC case based on this baffle box concept. The components were all mounted to an acoustically isolated metal plate, which is similar to an open air test stand. The box was designed to be roughly the profile of a standard two-drawer file cabinet. It fit under the desk, on wheels, so it could easily roll out when I needed to work on it. The top hinged up for super easy access to the components, as the motherboard was mounted horizontally. All air got pulled in through the bottom, through a standard 1' x 1' x 1" HVAC filter that could be easily replaced without moving the case. It had two levels for components: One for the motherboard and video card on top, and another for fans, a radiator for the water loop, and all the drives on the bottom.
I loved it while it lasted, but I didn't anticipate how large video cards would become. I'll do a redesign when the kids move out and the loudest thing in the house is again my PC.
Safety tip for Nail gun use... Nail gun nails will bend to either side when going into the wood, so orient the nail gun such that it will send the nails into wood when it goes to the side, not out the edges. I.e. if going down a strip don't hold inline but at a 90 degree angle moving the nail gun sideways down the strip, not vertically.
As a long time woodworker, watching Linus shoot a nail with his hand right there was scary.
@malachiclifton8795 But not when he was using the nail gun with someone's head directly on the other side of the piece he was nailing? A hand is one thing but hopefully they'll see enough comments about Jordan being on the other side to make sure not to do it again. That one is a potentially life threatening mistake.
@@alexv8940 You're the reason I have to wear steel toe caps as an IT technician 🤣
I was scared the entire time during all the nail gun sections and when Linus decided to roll around while holding a live jigsaw
Someone is going to copy this and hurt themselves.
That was scary for me, as someone with absolutely no woodworking experience ever in my life.
Never step at the other side of a nail gun, doesn't matter how thick your wood is
What is a nile gun?
@@FredyMcfly I got some pretty thick wood though.
Idk how 230 people understood this sentence and actively liked it. If you meant never put you hand on the other side where you are nailing, than yes. But “ step at other side of Nile gun” wtf Chinese bot
@@txmade4371 Shoots fertile soil, rice, and embalming natron.
@@liamisboss2 I think they were talking about Jordan being on the other side while Linus was using the nail gun.
That first nailgun shot with the way he was holding the plywood scared the fuck out of me
@@saralovejoy570 Yeah looked like a brad nailer, they just go where they want to sometimes. Definitely do not have fingers down range lol.
- Look at my completely silent gaming PC.
- But it's just a wooden box!
- Exactly.
a wooden box... with an air hole!
3:18 No, Linus... you didn't screw up, you NAILED it!
*dad jokes intensified*
But he didn't HAMMER it home.
No need for high-end tools or fancy wood from home depot unless you're into that kind of thing. I used a chisel/screwdriver/handsaw to build one of these years ago out of some old furniture and packing foam i recovered from a dumpster near my apartment. ProTip: Best materials can be found near a college dormitory at the end of the semester
wouldn't you need a hammer for the chisel too?
@@aaronalquiza9680 My bad for not mentioning it before, but there were plenty of medium-sized rocks in the ally behind the circle-k. You think I'm made of money or something?
They forgot the asbestos sheets to make it fireproof.
Now just wear the asbestosproof respirator or your lungs will be airproof
lead paint too to shield it from interference!
Make it pretty by using paint coloured with lead (white), arsenic (green), hexavalent chromium (yellow), uranium (another yellow), or cadmium (red), depending on your colour preferences.
Make sure you give the surface a good sanding before applying the next coat, save money by not using a dust mask, and breathe deeply while sanding, to reduce the dust you have to clean up. No one likes a messy workspace.
One can only speculate on safety if you combine radioactive Uranium paint with lead paint...!
Of course, if people don't realise this is a joke, and is really terrible advice, then... I take no responsibility.
Radium paint so you can find it in the dark!
Cadmium is what they used to make Tar Creek red, and the color has held for over 40 years! Talk about quality!
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I think these type of boxes were first DIY'ed to solve the problem of aircompressors in the shop. Those things can be deafening and literally cause hearing damage over time if you have it in a work environment. They work for anything though. While it's hard to push air through you can just brute-force since the extra noise won't really be an issue inside the box.
It is absolutely critical that you use the S-shaped "sound trap" in your design though. Otherwise you will never get a good result no matter what insulation you use.
Its old, if you dig in some silent pc review or whatever forums people posted these types of solutions. Inspiration for the original Antec silent series of cases.
They are also very good at jumpscares. I have a "silent" compresorr at home ("only" 80db), it is quiet enough to not bother other people but god forbid forgetting to turn it off.
Sound baffle mazes are use in recording studios for room to room cable runs and ducting for AC and heating while maintaining isolation.
Linus went to Home Depot to refine his dad skills
Source? You're getting banned if you made that up
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@@iamspencerxYou're getting banned
We definitely need the DIY PERKS response 😂
I hope, we get a diy perks version, with wood veneer and aluminium
Didn't he make a silently cooled PC by pushing and pulling air or something already?
First thing DIY perks would do is make the chamber the PC case, make in thinner, use smaller fans, build it into the wall or something.
@@fritsfmn Maybe good thing would be to make entire pc case like this and optimize airflow for very quiet pc and then you could make it also much smaller.
@@fritsfmnand brass, he loves brass... hahahahaha...
Most important things to do...
1. Find the quietest fans, buy those
2. Undervolt your CPU and GPU (Afterburner, Ryzen curve optimiser etc)
3. Tune your fan curves the lowest they'll go without temps going up
Now you have a silent PC
@@adamgreenhill110 psu fan?
@@dontknow3886GPU fans is the issue for me
You dont have to undervolt it. Just buy quality cpu cooler (+ GPU and PSU) and fans and big case with good airflow. And dont be lazy to go to bios and set ur curve to whatever noise/temp ratio you like. But not to sacrifice performance and keep it quite comes with price.
@@nonamenosurname8516 Undervolting is the new overclocking now. It increases (or maintains) performance with less voltage. Especially for GPUs
lol
Having done zero research into this, couldn't case designers make a PC case with thermals and noise as the main aspect instead of a stupid window to see parts.
But RGB makes the computer faster!
some do, be quiet and some others have steel cases with foams inside to reduce noise and removable covers for if you want some more airflow at some noise cost
@@chrisk3127 yeah, but these are so expensives. Noctua and be quiet are definetly not cheap and the materials inside literally cost them nothing compared to the price we pay...
Older fractal cases had all metal panels with sound dampening on the inside, but customers wanted glass sides and lots of airflow. The (in)famous fractal black boxes :)
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Me: Completes small footprint pc build with cool RGB and my fav aesthetic
Linus: You need this massive wooden box so your pc is quieter
I dont get these astetic builds... i cant even see my pc from where im sitting.. or i need to put it on the desk.. and that would be more noise.. also spending money on components that look better instead of being faster is useless..
RGB is tacky
@@larsvegas1505 As someone with a boring black box with no RGB, I understand where you're coming from, however
People who build builds like this person has, do it because it makes them happy and it's their money. Done. Easy, simple explanation.
This explanation can also apply to other things people think are ridiculous.
For example, I used to never understand why people would lift trucks if they never plan to off-road. It's stupid, it wastes money, you get worse gas mileage, you're impressing nobody, etc etc. However I would never account for the fact the person just like... Wanted to do it, because they felt like it, have the money, and have the freedom to do so.
What I'm trying to say is that people can be haters sometimes when somebody is just doing something to achieve the same thing we all want: Happiness.
Just transition your RGB to the outside of your box.
ascectic - astetic - aesthetic
lol
You didn't 'screw up', you 'nailed it'.
Walking out of home depot with a single piece of wood in a bag is such a deep cut 😂😂😂
Shabibo was shook
@@trentrexbob3126 is that reference?
So happy I'm not the only one who spotted it, thats crazy 😆🤣
@@ernest9868 Yes it's a Ben Shapiro reference who made a weird looking picture buying one piece of wood at a Home Depot
I've done it before.
My dad wanted to hang a VERY heavy framed piece of art over his bed, and wanted me to help with that.
I insisted on mounting a cleat to the wall with heavy duty screws across multiple studs and then screwing through the frame into the cleat.
Went looking for wood, and found exactly what we wanted in the cutting scraps bucket, they just gave it to us lol.
I just built a quiet box for the air pumps in my algae room, but I used a thrifted cooler and some recycled acoustic ceiling panels
Cant wait to see the progress of the algae / oxygen room.
I can't believe a random comment on an LTT video is how I discovered your channel, but you're an insane man, in the best way.
@@GallopingWalrus thank you
Didnt expect you there :D still waiting for the furnace minecart :)
FYI: decibel alone only makes sense when describing relative change: "It went up 2 dB" for example is fine. The 30, 40, whatever dB reading is dBA - which is dbSPL (sound pressure level, the actual Pascal pressure change) but weighted (A) to the human loudness curve (basically, the EQ of the human ear at different dbSPL. i.e. the louder something is the flatter we hear it in EQ and the "better" it sounds, generalizing here for brevity). No one on youtube gets this right, nor do those "it's as loud as an airplane at 120dB" (yea ok, at 1 cm away or 1 km away? and dbA? spl? dbv?) I trust Dan will help out to clarify terminology 😁😁 💪💪 (this is the start of where professions audio TECH and audio ENGINEER differentiate, and they're often mixed up). To clarify, i'm delighted the delve into basic acoustic engineering (it would have been nice to go into Sabine coefficient of the materials you guys used, it's just very interesting and quite basic) but a little more care would be really awesome from such a big channel with your resources!!
now DIY Perks needs to convert this "COVERING OVER THE CASE" into an actual PC CASE, and make it aesthetic as well.
I thought the same thing. They just built a PC case for a PC case. Why not cut out the middleman and just build a quiet case to begin with?
I built two separate wooden PC cases and have been running them for years - pretty easy to do and super quiet (I use them for both gaming and music production). I'm sure DIY Perks would make it so much prettier and more refined
Can they put a window on the wood case and still be quiet?
@MiguelY22 yep, by using Acustic glass.
basically its 2 layers of glass with a membrane in between to reduce noise. it mostly blocks out higher frequencies.
it is also fairly expensive.
2:13 oh linus, you gotta watch a tablesaw safety video before you operate a table saw again. That was scary.
Yeah I was like "well he was still on WAN show so I know he's not dead"
there's literally nothing wrong with what they're doing there... if it's not obvious there's clearly someone on the other side taking the wood panels... stop complaining over literally nothing.
He's nowhere near the blade. Looks fine to me.
@@bugz000 There literally is though. You never stand right behind the object you're cutting because of kickback. Doesn't matter if they have another person to hold the panels. No human is stronger than a 3-5HP saw.
@@gamingmarcus kickback on a panel of plywood only happens if you have the depth set incorrectly, or use an oblique angle toward the blade, both of which earn a darwin award, and neither of which are happening here.
believe it or not, other people, besides your favorite woodworking youtube channels, are also capable of using power tools without getting hurt.
these tools really aren't so complex to use, it's called not being a fn moron.
6:45 DIY Perks probably would've made the PC itself quieter, as he always does. I don't think he would've made a box to put the PC in, unless it's the PC case itself and he's making a custom one.
Having to explain to people that they can use alternative but similar products is insane. The internet is fucking insane.
"yOu UsEd piNe, iS It oKaY iF i UsE oAk?"
But my drill is a DeWalt is that ok too?
@@alexrogers777 a valid question in some contexts
@@alexrogers777 At least it's not the more insane cousin: "Can I use beef instead of shrimp for my shrimp soup? I don't like shrimp"
A lot of the time it can be quite difficult to find information on a product to find a replacement if it's never called by its generic name. There can also be differences between similar looking products that make them not work in that situation and are not explicitly stated in the video. It's often not as simple as buy the same thing by a different brand.
You wouldn't want to spend time and money to build this only to later find out that the insulation they used was much better than the random stuff you grabbed that looked similar and because of that your box is pretty much useless.
Pro tip.. Don't point your nail gun or shoot nails at your buddy like they did in this video.
For the soundproofing material, the best ones are those intended for cars. Use butyl rubber mat (formerly made of bitumen and the name still sticks) for metal panels. It will make them heavier but that's the point: the mass is what silences the low frequency hum. The panels should now sound vaguely like wood when knocked on. Then for any naked surfaces (including those covered by rubber mats), use a closed cell PE foam mat. This kind of foam replaced good old felt sound deadening. Mind the airflow and it may even improve cooling by forcing air exactly where it needs to go.
Simple tips that will greatly improve outcomes when working with plywood:
Think about the direction your jigsaw blade is cutting. It’ll have the most tearout on the side the teeth exit the wood, so have the side that won’t be visible be that side. Putting a painter’s tape like frog tape where you’ll be cutting can help reduce tearout in materials like plywood (be careful when you peel it off that you don’t end up lifting the veneer with the tape). They also make reverse cut and two sided cut jigsaw blades that can help.
When drilling through plywood, put a sacrificial piece of wood (like an off-cut of an old 2x4) underneath the plywood. This will dramatically reduce tearout.
When nailing plywood with a nail gun, think about the direction the nail will want to bend. Linus’ finger when he was putting in his first nail was a prime target for a bent/deflected nail. These nails will bend in the direction of the shorter faces of the nail head (edited because I had it backwards before). You want them to bend inside the sheet good, instead of blowing out the face, so they did that right from what I can tell, but his finger was right in the potential path of the nail if it did encounter something in the plywood and deflect out the top.
I just want to say that this was the kindest message about how to do better and I appreciate that
I was thinking more along the lines of "why aren't they using MDF?" It's easier to work with and sounds deader. MDF doesn't have the structural strength of similar plywood, but would be fine for sitting on.
@@DanielFSmith I actually much prefer working with plywood over MDF. MDF is stinking heavy (which the added mass would probably be a moderate benefit in this use case, as you point out), and the dust is much worse for you if you breathe it in (of course you should have good dust collection, cut it outdoors, be wearing a respirator, etc. when cutting MDF, but I digress). It also does not hold nails or screws nearly as well as a quality plywood.
To each their own though.
Can you explain what you mean by "perpendicular to the longer face of the nail head"? Are the nails oblong shaped in a nail gun?
@@SangoProductions213 Nails meant to be hammered in generally have round heads and bodies to make them strong and easier to hit from all angles. An air nailer takes strips of nails in a feeder rail, the nails are shaped a bit like a ‘T’ with a flattened wide body. From the head of the tool (where they exit) it’s easier for them to bend up or down than left/right since the tool uses speed more than the structure of the nail itself to stay straight. They will bend in any direction though, and can over penetrate the wood and come out the back of the work if the tool isn’t adjusted for the type of nail/material. Fingers close to the nail (like what Linus did at first) is just asking for unexpected acupuncture. Wearing safety glasses is also a good idea.
This would make the most minimal of minimal of differences, but it's good woodworking practice anyway. When assembling the box you honestly don't even need screws. Wood glue the joint, and slap some brad nails in to hold it together while it dries. It'll be just as strong and will fully seal any possible gaps, especially since none of these boards are jointed or planed.
0:20 "but takes a lot of space""
... proceeds to build something with like 4-5x the volume of the original PC
pro tip if its not on the package it is the size of the screw without the threads
“Thanks shaggy” lmao I don’t think even a quarter of your audience understood that reference Linus.
probably not lmao
Went looking for this comment right away :D
Could you explain the joke then for those of us that don't get it?
@@Docdoozer reference to the song it wasn't me by shaggy. look it up
@@Docdoozer The song "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy from 2000
Linus comes in and build for 5 minutes on camera while Jordan finishes it lol. In true chief visionary officer fashion lol
Silence your PC, build a coffin for it!
RIP
And when it dies it's already in a coffin so that is taken care of.
>Build an expensive, beautiful PC
>Put said PC in a wooden box ._.
My PC is super ugly!
@@manavsharma2232 my PC case is essentially just a big black box already.
>reduce noise level by 12 db
@@TheTrueBloodish make it a bigger blacker box
@@tibontibon5772 >increase the size of your PC by 3x
What’s funny about the DIY Perks shoutout is one of his fist videos is about making a sound dampened PC 😂
lmao you can't convince me that that intro wasn't a subtle jab at ben shabeebo with that tiny piece of wood in front of Home Depot 😂😂😂
I don't know the reference. Can anyone explain?
@@Lunch0guy Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, wanted to "show support" to Home Depot for political reasons. But he bought a single, small piece of wood to do so, and was widely mocked for it, for numerous reasons
I was thinking the same, it has to be a reference to that for sure
@@Lunch0guy Ben Shapiro posted about shopping at home depot and he had a little piece of wood in a plastic bag. He made a fool of himself and everyone laughed at him
@@emporioalnino4670 I didn't get it because "Shabeebo"
sonopan really needs to export or start up production in other countries. its freakin phenomenal. a properly done layer behind drywall in a home theater will demolish most noise. two layers and a removal of any air gaps in the layers and you can almost set off boom devices in said theater and have silence outside it.
its ridiculously cool stuff, considering its just processed (and then reprocessed) wood materials. (and its fire resistant! and green! in several ways.)
4:33 ROFL Rolling on the floor, Linusing
What a coincidence that today I was *finally* ripping some plywood to make a near identical chamber for my cordless shopvac! And thanks for re opening the wound of sonopan's un-availability stateside. I'm gluing some acoustic foam and 1" cotton frost king insulation to mine. Absolutely sick build!
why that? knauf has solutions and they sell worldwide.
Absolutely love the visual for measure twice cut once, love the creativity
my bigtower fits well in a heavy-duty shelf, simply putting the mats around the heavy-duty shelf has finally given me wonderful peace, it's a shame I didn't do this 30 years ago
2:34 Linus with a nailgun jumpscare
Why is this legitimately cheaper and better than most noise-cancelling computer cases? This should be made into a proper computer case. I don't care how it looks if it's that quiet.
Volume. It's 6 cubic feet. 2:08
5-6 times larger than a normal computer case.
@@c6q3a24 I think that's mostly because the entire case is inside this thing. It wouldn't need to be nearly this big if it was an integrated case solution.
10:17 i just love how they have like gazilions of monitors in the wh, but they still dont throw this burned one away and use it.
@@barneybarney3982 I think it's mounted on a cart and Linus has said they use that one incase it falls off they won't be too bummed if it breaks
12:39 hey linus, your hair is looking a lil yellow
@@IvanTube0 erm
The fact that the home depot footage made me feel weird shows how much the production quality is appreciated by LMG
Man, I don’t what it is about Linus but every time my budgie hears him talk he can’t stop chirping. I’m afraid it is a mating call
Just wait until your budgie starts doing segues to a sponsor.
learn more and report back to us
It's the budgie brain worm, spread via sound, from Luke's birds to Linus to you. Welcome
"so my southern neighbors don't try and liberate the studio"
i quite literally gasped
idk that might be the funniest thing i've ever heard from the channel
They put so much more effort into this building than we ever do in theater stuff. Table saw, slap some wood glue on it, nail gun a nail every foot or so, done. Bambambambamdone. And predrilling a screw? Never
You clearly don't have much experience driving screwed into the ends of plywood if you don't see the need to pre-drill. I'll take it even one step further, that when drilling down into the face of the plywood, it helps to have a backing piece of wood so that the back side of the hole, doesn't splinter out.
To be fair, it's probably because it's easier for stage hands to take it apart if it's not put together properly.
If only you had a large soundproof room to measure the decibels before and after
2:52 As a carpenter that first shot with your fingers right next to it killed me.
I for sure thought that open box truck was a segue to having Brian the electrician back. He was the shit
Not only do we get tech tips, but you just blew my mind about the drill bit size being listed on the package of screws.
@@jonatinoo you can also hold the bit in front of the screw, and if you can see all the threads and just barely see the shaft of the screw, it’s about right.
@@jonatinoo Its a cool tip but its not all of them, the budget ones seem to not have it listed while the more expensive ones do
You can always more or less eyeball it. For smaller screws, typically one or two sizes lower will work fine.
This was finally a really good "case mod" video from you since years. The last ones where too long blooperreels rather than buildvideos.
Don't worry Linus your safe. we only "liberate" places with dinosaur juice!
They have more of that than nearly every other country, though. Only Venezuela and Saudi Arabia have more.
@@azrobbins01 Shhhh, don't tell them!
I suggest you google "Alberta oil"...
I smell dino juice 😶🌫️
@@LinusTechTips if we wanted dino slushies, we'd turn the bering strait into the bearing highway.
".... but I am going the stick to the FREEDOM UNITS, so my southern neighbours don't try to LIBERATE my studio."
😂😂😂
0:40 he pulled a Ben Shapiro and bought wood in a bag 😂
Someone said we're liberating ltt studios
@@SomewhatIntelligentAgency draw up some battle plans
Do they have oil? 👀
@@yaltschuler hell yea they do, they said oil in some video
@@yaltschuler They have mineral oil. It's close enough.
@@yaltschuler sunflower oil? Plenty.
3:18 Nailed it Linus
New merch idea...? LTT PC Muffling Box? Schrodinger's PC?
funny how the test is tbd from a meter away. wheres my 3.28084 feet?
I'm not going to fall for the bait...
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I'm not going to fall for the bait...
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WTF is a kilometer?
@@uss-dh7909 it's 198.839 rods, duh
@@uss-dh7909 Duh, it's three orders of magnitude greater than the SI - _Système international d'unités_ or _International System of Units_ - unit for length. Not difficult. 😉
WTF IS A KILOMETER 🦅🦅🦅🦅@@uss-dh7909
He should have said a yard because that’s basically the equivalent in freedom units.
Lmfao the Ben Shapiro joke killed me
I was worried no one would get that intro 😂
0:49 loving the ben shabibo home depot reference 😂😂😂
The noise reduction is impressive but i mean, now the PC takes twice if not thrice as much space...
Worth it if you can spare the space
@@falagarius if you can spare that space, then noise would not be an issue.
You also need an extended power button or you will always have to open the box if you want to boot the PC.
Many ppl are also still on wired peripherals too 😅
You mentioned the metric system. We're all coming for that studio.
@@alext6933 They don't have oil.
I’ll be honest, I genuinely enjoy listening to the sound of my computer running. To me, it’s an affirmation that the pc is working and that my fan curve is solid. I think it also depends on which fans you have inside as well. Mine are corsair fans and they have a nice and soft hum to them.
Honestly if it wasn’t a power sink, i’d leave the computer running as white noise while I sleep.
Oh wow, thank you Linus, you are life saver. My server temperature alarm is constantly screaming and this should make it finally quiet.
Fortunately my gaming PC is a commodore 64 but still helpful tips!
I saw this concept in action about 10 years ago when I was passing a fireworks booth using a gas powered generator with some plywood around it xD Good job guy
*sticks hand up from the back of the class.......I don't want a rabbit hutch in my room.
Hallelujah!!! I’m favored and blessed with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and also support the work of God and the church.
Oh really? Tell me more!,how do you make so much monthly? I’m interested.
This is what Ana Graciela Blackwelder does, she has changed my life.
After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.
I know Ana Graciela Blackwelder, and I have also had success...
Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.
"This can apply to all sorts of noise-making things in your life" -- Hey, kids, I'm gonna build you a new room
yay i can finally not worry about my jet engine of a console!
For real, I’ve never had problems with noise on my pc, but my console is airplane
Honestly yeah, I like having my pc in another room but it is very quiet even on my desk. But for a bit I owned a PS5 and that thing had to be moved behind the wall, I could not stand the noise it made if it was in the same room.
cant wait to buy this for 5 bucks next garage sale
Measure twice cut once is something I never were able to do xD I measure 4 to 6 times and cut 2 to 5 times because I'm really really bad at these kinds of works. I'm glad I've got a friend who works with wood and knows what to do. For me the saying "A fool with a tool is still a fool" applies very well in these kinds of work.
Experienced woodworker here!
If you’re genuinely interested in this project, get yourself a circular saw, a few clamps and potentially a straight edge. You can cut even huge pieces of wood this way, and that’s how I got started woodworking, pretty cheap buy-in too.
I will say that something you should never, EVER neglect is your safety. You should not start working with wood without protection for your eyes, ears and lungs. They’re cheap PPE, but your body will thank you. Also, learn how to use these tools and understand common mistakes, you do not want to jump straight in and end up losing a finger over a PC upgrade!
Great series idea or sequel idea: Make it no larger than an ATX case and you'll be onto something. If you can reduce the weight without sacrificing sound deadening, you'll really be onto something. You could ditch the original case and mount the mobo to the wood wall and it becomes a "nearly enclosed" open air test bench. You could also play around with different materials. 3/4" plywood vs 1/4" luan vs 3D printed ABS-CF vs polycarbonate sheets vs aluminum, etc. Compare against an undervolted, underclocked, minimum fan speed PC with a chunky heatsink in a regular quiet-ish case.
Personally, I'd like wood construction to keep with the "anyone can DIY with cheap tools for little money" vibe that you started here. I'd start with a 3/4" grooved base plate and top plate so that 1/4" walls with sound deadening attached to them simply slide in and out of the grooves for easy, tool-less access. You can make the grooves with a straight bit router with a fence/jig or a tablesaw that has a lowered blade that doesn't cut all the way through.
wow the dust buildup from that foam would be crazy
This is actually a principle that’s used in subwoofer box building quite often for something called a labyrinth port bc lower sounds travel further than higher sounds it works as a sort of filter I would bet if you added another turn or 2 it would be truly silent and I’d love to see this built into a desk
We've been doing that for miners that are awfully loud and the result is always shockingly good. One thing: you may use basically any mineral wool as a sound absorber and, personally, I would let hot air escape upwards i.e. layout all the labyrinth stuff vertically. As a bonus it would require less horizontal space.
Honestly, Linus I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that you had the awareness of your viewership that you offered up "metric" measurements. I can't tell you how many creators do not do this, even just out of some odd pride. I know your Canadian, but kudos.. really kudos to you all. Thank you.
Can't wait for Steve to put this through actual proper testing inside their sound chamber instead of just getting data telling everyone to just be quiet.
Revolutionary stuff here as LTT invents a sort of "case" to store your computer inside to make it quiet!
Joking aside, I do wonder if any real case designer is going to experiment with double-layered cases for better noise isolation.
This has been used in the music industry for years. They're called iso-boxes. The speaker is put inside the soundproofed box with a microphone, which goes out to the mixing desk. You know all those speaker stacks you see in stadiums? All show, no go
I made something like this for two separate applications, for both light* and noise. Can confirm, it works well.
UVC light can blind you and give you cancer, but my parent's house has a lot of mold. I built something that looks similar to what linus made, same size roughly, but a big exhaust fan on it and a giant UVC light in it. Produces a load of ozone and kills everything in the air of a room within a few minutes of running.
I made one of these for a noisey projector back in the day and the concept works really well actually.
Worst are air compressors they are so loud
"mmm, thanks shaggy." is the funniest joke linus has ever made. i actually laughed, out loud.
Remember to use a case with lots of tempered glass panels and to cable manage the system properly
12:17 should've given another point to the dad jokes counter for "barely above the noise floor"
honestly, i'd like to see a desk version of this concept. get cheap case, heck even leave one side off, and then build this acoustically treated desk (with some dust filters on either vents).
MAYBE I WILL MAKE IT FOR MY PC!