Isolation thoughts

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:31 am

Hi,

I'm building a fairly small room in the basement of my house and I want to achieve the most isolation from the rest of the house as I can. I am mostly using it as a control room to do preproduction and mixing and some tracking. The dimensions I will be using is about 11x10x(almost 8'ceiling)

I know that's small and I will run in to some problems.

My first quesiton is, I 've been looking at products like IsoDamp that works with the construction. Is there any benefit to going that way. If so can I achieve the same results with standard materials.

What is the best kind of isulations for isolation in a staggard stud wall. I won't have room to do a double wall.

Any thoughts on maintaining isolation with the air intake and return would be helpful.

Also any thoughts on a good approach to dealing with getting the room sounding as good as it can when the walls are up and the room is isolated would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-ging

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:22 pm

R-13 insulation or mineral wool will work good for the price. Everything else is WAY too expensive. And double up the sheetrock.
Meaning that if you use 2 pieces of sheetrock the first piece should be 1/2" thick and the over lapping piece should be 3/4" thick. Reason being is that the resonant freq. are different in the various thicknesses, or any material for that matter.

And remember...sound in a room is just like "water in a glass". If there is a hole anywhere, the sound (water) will find a way out. So the tighter the seal the less the leak.
Good luck!

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:16 pm

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I want to achieve the most isolation from the rest of the house as I can.

Then definitely consider a double-stud wall using narrower 2.5 inch metal studs, with a 1" gap between the two frames. That only adds 2.5 inches to the total thickness of the wall. You'll isolate much more bass than with a single-stud wall.

Lee

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:09 am

Here are the plans for the studio. Any thoughts on how much room to leave for a bass trap where the entrance door is and the bathroom door.

I'm going to have to deal with the window I think. Would a window plug of some sort work?

Any other thoughts?

why isn't the image showing up?

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:50 pm

It appears you may be using domain forwarding for www.andrewgingerich.com
My URL points to www.playmusicconcepts.com

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:14 am

Thanks!

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