pikingrin
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After living out of a bedroom at the in-laws for almost a year with most of my gear in storage, the wife and I are finally about to get the building of our new house going. Got the plans and financing is secured, now it's just dependent upon the weather as to how long it's going to take. Very exciting!
I ended up getting a 26' 3" x 17' room with 10' ceilings in the drawing. Not a perfect square and with the extra ceiling height it will work ok for anything I'll ever do, possibly including drums. The ONLY issue that I have with the space is that it is over the garage. In the past I have practiced in a space similar to this and the cops got called almost every other day due to noise complaints. My wife won't call the cops but our concern is having as little of the sound from an amp (or drums) escape into the main part of the house. The wall that connects to the house will be heavily insulated (tons of pink stuff or rockwool, still digging) and double hung with 5/8" drywall. That really only leaves the floor. I have two thoughts about this that I'd like opinions on...
1) It's not in the budget to go rockwool between the floor of the music room and the garage; we pushed it over with the treatment of the wall that connects to the rest of the house. So, my first thought would be to cram as much pink stuff as possible and seal it up with some 5/8" drywall as the ceiling for the garage. Can't have too much, right? Also looking at possibly using denim instead of pink stuff but haven't had enough time to compare prices yet. On the floor side above the garage, I was thinking of either doubling the OSB subfloor or even possibly putting 5/8" drywall down before putting the flooring in. Flooring will be cheap laminate installed floating, not glued or stapled in. Would drywall between flooring and subfloor be the dumbest idea ever?
2) Instead of spending a whole crapload on insulation and drywall, I was also thinking about building my own version of auralex' Gramma or Subdude. An isolation riser to decouple the amp from the floor; pretty sure I can build one cheaper than I can buy one. If I go that route I could get away with a little less insulation (possibly) and go with 1/2" drywall making my life a little easier during installation. Then I also wouldn't have to worry too much about the floor upstairs, too. Saw this sort of thing touted in a thread here and it would definitely be the cheaper option.
The idea is to be able to crank my HRD or AC15 clear up without pissing off my wife and/or the neighbor down the road while maintaining a budget... Any thoughts are appreciated!
I ended up getting a 26' 3" x 17' room with 10' ceilings in the drawing. Not a perfect square and with the extra ceiling height it will work ok for anything I'll ever do, possibly including drums. The ONLY issue that I have with the space is that it is over the garage. In the past I have practiced in a space similar to this and the cops got called almost every other day due to noise complaints. My wife won't call the cops but our concern is having as little of the sound from an amp (or drums) escape into the main part of the house. The wall that connects to the house will be heavily insulated (tons of pink stuff or rockwool, still digging) and double hung with 5/8" drywall. That really only leaves the floor. I have two thoughts about this that I'd like opinions on...
1) It's not in the budget to go rockwool between the floor of the music room and the garage; we pushed it over with the treatment of the wall that connects to the rest of the house. So, my first thought would be to cram as much pink stuff as possible and seal it up with some 5/8" drywall as the ceiling for the garage. Can't have too much, right? Also looking at possibly using denim instead of pink stuff but haven't had enough time to compare prices yet. On the floor side above the garage, I was thinking of either doubling the OSB subfloor or even possibly putting 5/8" drywall down before putting the flooring in. Flooring will be cheap laminate installed floating, not glued or stapled in. Would drywall between flooring and subfloor be the dumbest idea ever?
2) Instead of spending a whole crapload on insulation and drywall, I was also thinking about building my own version of auralex' Gramma or Subdude. An isolation riser to decouple the amp from the floor; pretty sure I can build one cheaper than I can buy one. If I go that route I could get away with a little less insulation (possibly) and go with 1/2" drywall making my life a little easier during installation. Then I also wouldn't have to worry too much about the floor upstairs, too. Saw this sort of thing touted in a thread here and it would definitely be the cheaper option.
The idea is to be able to crank my HRD or AC15 clear up without pissing off my wife and/or the neighbor down the road while maintaining a budget... Any thoughts are appreciated!