Apartment and hard pad

[seiya256]

Try these. They are fairly dense and are designed to reduce vibration as well as support heavy exercise equipment.

[shurf]

[ChilliumBromide]

[Weston]

I went to a store to check that out after the idea was suggested, but the mats they had seemed too dense and hard to help at all. The interlocking foam mats were a bit different though, they might work with what I have.

I'm still thinking of any other possibilities to keep the shock muffled before I move the pad to a friend's place. Pegs + foam pad hasn't been tested yet, so it's not out of the question.

[seiya256]

The pads need to be dense so they don't deform and cause an unstable condition. If the material is designed properly, the impact becomes distributed throughout the whole pad instead of going straight down. These things are designed with treadmills and free weights in mind. It should help reduce the noise to some degree, but it can't eleminate it completely. Nothing can help if you have thin floors between levels. I don't use them for DDR since I hate home pads, but it's probably worth looking into.

[shurf]

I reeeally don't want to shell out $30 if these don't even work.


Does anyone have experience? Where can I find customer reviews for these things?

EDIT: These look promising but I don't want to take any chances. Its pretty similar to the ones posted earlier. I'm on a tight budget right now, but I can make room for this if it really works.

[jo_lu_dlr87]

Point: Looks grim but more testing needed (I used a soft pad); Researcher is unreliably slow.

This may help aslo: http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70053&highlight=apartments

AW, man. I remember those, I bought two packs of them threw away like $80 at a Modell’s. Did they work? Hard to say, it's been a while since I used them. Originally I bought them for my Ignition soft pad cause my neighbors (this is an apartment building in a room where I believe the floor lack a cement base, I can hear the people above me step too!) were also scolding me about the noise (funny part is that me and my siblings have a history of making noise and getting scolded by them even before I got into DDR). I tried to set one on top of the other to create layers of shock absorption. But they kept sliding all over the place, so I quickly stopped using them and playing DDR. As for actual absorption, it seemed that it didn't help much since the shelf in my room still shook whenever I played after school. Although the people bellow me would have be the final judges on the noise but we hate each other so I don't talk or even make eye contact with them (our parents get along though). I can't remember if they started banging from below, maybe they weren’t home when I played.

I went to college upstate, and lived in a dorm. I actually ended up on the third floor; it was pretty "cement-y" and I played on my soft pad w/ no foam and found little problem with vibration especially since the guys below us never showed up (and I couldn't have cared less about people I've never met; sorry). Right now I'm on summer vacation and haven't played DDR in so long because I don't want to disturb the neighbors. I could try testing out the foams one last time; although I tend to be pretty lazy and forget things easily. Sorry for all the extra needless info.

[ChilliumBromide]

How many pages did you have to dig through to find this?

'cause it hasn't been posted in for over 9 months.
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I used to be active here lol

[Discoman]

See above post. Seriously? You posted in the other thread AND this one, both with links to this OTHER age-old thread, and gave this one the tl;dr version.

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Locked for bumping a ridiculously old thread and other sundry items. Warning points come out next time.