The Corvette has really always had two kinds of buyers. The first is one who wants performance first and foremost. This is the guy who buys the car and immediately starts trying to shed weight and add ...

SoundSkin introduced a custom-cut sound deadening kits for Peterbilt trucks to decrease road noise and reduce rattles and vibration. SoundSkins worked with Spare Time Fab with the goal of helping ...

Central Pennsylvania shop Spare Time Fab's owner, Randy Martin, drove over-the-road for 12 years. He honed some of his custom-modification skills working on the rig he drove for owner-operator Gerald ...

An often misunderstood concept within car building is that of sound deadening. Many often ask me, "Why should I add sound deadening to my ride?" The answer is simple. If you want to enjoy the benefits ...

So has anyone ever tried to reduce sound transmission on an interior door? I work nights and trying to keep a 5 and 7 year old from getting excited and shouting, is an impossibility. My wife keeps ...

Sound deadening material plays an important role in making cars comfortable and quiet, but most people don’t give it much thought. Nissan engineers are one of the exceptions as they’ve developed a ...

While there are a few die-hards left in the Mopar world, most of us by now have a newer Mopar car or truck we use as a daily driver, saving our classic Mopar for the weekend car shows, cruising, or ...

A new sound-attenuating, polyurethane-elastomer system can be molded into entire floor coverings, reducing noise in heavy-equipment cab interiors. The coverings are formed by reaction-injection ...

My brother introduced me to sound-deadening panels a few years ago when he bought some for his basement home theatre to reduce echo. They're a fibreglass-matting-like material inside a cloth cover ...

The acoustic properties of a room have a surprising impact when you want to use a microphone. [RayP24]’s son was trying to make his bedroom into a better recording studio, and for [Ray], that turned ...

It takes obsessive engineering, not just piles of sound deadener, to create a vehicle that's as silent as a shadow. Craig brought 15 years of automotive journalism experience to the Cars team. A ...