Why Do I Need To Float A Control Room Floor?

[BradJacob]

Could anyone tell me the reasons on eneeds to float thier control room floor? Do I need to do this in a basement studio?
What do I float it on?

Thanks For Any Help,

- Brad

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

That depends. What do your recordings tell you? Is ambient noise a problem, or are you disturbing someone, or is monitoring being smeared by sound transmission from another space? You need to provide much more information about your space, type of music, etc., if you are having problems for members to help you determine this.

fitZ

[Ethan Winer]

Brad,

The usual reason for floating a floor is to prevent sound from travelling through the floor to other parts of the building, or to keep outside sound from getting in that way. In a basement in a house there's no reason to do this.

--Ethan

[BradJacob]

Thanks Ethan. I think that was the answer I was looking for. If I build my walls correctly, then there shouldn't be any noise contaminating my control room.

Thanks Again

[BradJacob]

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

Brad,

The usual reason for floating a floor is to prevent sound from travelling through the floor to other parts of the building, or to keep outside sound from getting in that way. In a basement in a house there's no reason to do this.

--Ethan

Ethan - your site has not been up for most of today ...

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

The usual reason for floating a floor is to prevent sound from travelling through the floor to other parts of the building, or to keep outside sound from getting in that way. In a basement in a house there's no reason to do this.

Thats assuming you only have one room in the basement. Many people have more than one. In the case of a isolating a live room from the control room, one of the two MAY need to have a floating floor. But to my way of thinking, a basements concrete floor is directly tied to the foundation walls for the structure above. Sounds like a direct path for structural transmission if drums are on the slab, or a bass amp, but I'm not an expert.

fitZ

[Ethan Winer]

Brad,

> your site has not been up for most of today <

Yes, I know. My ISP had a major outage, but it's all fixed now.

--Ethan