Better. Much less of that “talking into a broom closet” voice.
Let’s address the blankets. My favorite is furniture moving blankets.
The goal is heavy. Vibrations in the air have to push the blanket back and forth to get in or to reflect.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/too-compressed-rejection/52825/22
People try shipping foam because it looks just like acoustic foam and it’s dirt cheap. Put a piece of foam on a picnic table and watch the wind blow it away. It’s useless.
Most bedroom blankets, quilts, and duvets don’t work well, either. They’re designed to keep you warm and not weight anything. See: goose down and feather bed.
Moving blankets are good. They’re common, relatively cheap, and they’re designed to keep two credenzas from smashing into each other in the back of a moving van. They’re not bashful.
That’s from the experiment where I made a recording in my garage. Perfect studio, right? no echoes from all those storage boxes and collections of Reader’s Digests. I needed to deaden the metal roll-up door. Two moving blankets did it.
Picking up a moving blanket takes both hands. That’s the kind of thing needed for soundproofing.
Koz