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Since I took that photo I've added a 3rd row of sound panels at the top and a 10x20 section on the ceiling. It's pretty good overall and significantly better than when it was just a shell with a concrete floor and drywall. I'm going to eventually expand the panels on the ceiling and I'm going to add a few sections of 1'x1'x2" acoustic foam (the kind you see in music studios) in between the panels behind the basket and I think that will make it about as good as it can be.

The sound really doesn't travel outside the room so that isn't the issue. Also when it's just the boys and I playing basketball or the Villainess an I playing pickleball the sound inside the room is fine.....it's really only a problem when the boys are in there with 6 other friends playing and yelling that it gets loud inside.

Tell your brother that the flooring helped the sound more than anything else. After that, he should move to the lower half of the walls. If I were to do it all over again, I wouldn't have had it painted, I would just buy enough 1x1 acoustic foam panels to cover everything. It would have been cheaper to do that vs painting and then adding spaced out sound panels.