Minimal things I can do to soundproof a garage door?

[Stackx]

Think about how a wall is built. It's basically just wood, miner wool batts, & drywall. but if your able to build a huge panel almost the size of the back wall where the door is around 4" thick of 703. I would try to make it flat and have the corners come in for more effectiveness as well. I would think that would get rid of most the sound. I mean it doesn't have to be soundproof, think of you have a room with windows your still going to hear some things from outside if it's quite in your studio. But the more panels the more noise it will cancel out.

[asolutions]

ASI sales rep Kevin McIver had this same issue when using his garage to for his band practices. He hung combination absorber/barrier blankets on the door. Check out the case study here: Silencing the KGB
You can call or email Kevin at work if you'd like to ask him about installation details: 804-346-8350 ext. 19 or kmi@acousticalsolutions.com

[pibbs]

Sweet, the hanging sound barrier idea sounds pretty promising. I am thinking of just having clips of sound barriers in front of the garage door.. maybe a few rows of them, to create kind of a soft layered "wall" of sound barriers. But it might be expensive :\
Can anyone recommend any other type of hang-able material we may be able to use? If I will be stacking rows of these things, the acoustic treatment properties of their faces will not be important for the ones that are hanging closer to the door itself.

[HermanV]

While those blankets may help to deaden some of the sound, I think there are much better ways to more effectively combat noise leakage from the door and those ways might come in a little cheaper than the blankets if you are handy.

[pibbs]

Please let me know if you have any other ideas! As long as I can still open the garage door, I'm all ears

[gullfo]

+1 on the simple wall idea. easy enough to put up and take down later.