mcgeestevens
New member
Hi everyone, I'm new here and trying to figure out the best way to soundproof a basement recording studio.
I have an 100 year old house with an unfinished basement with ducting and wires/pipes everywhere all over the ceiling. The sides and back of the house have a concrete foundation but the front had a wood one up against an open crawl space under the porch. We took out the front wall (took down the existing paneling to find the whole front of the house was supported by a single 4x4 post ) and put in an insulated wall with staggered studs and exterior sheathing/drywall. It does a pretty good job of blocking the noise from outside but you can still hear everything that goes on inside the house really well. The original idea was to simply paint out the ceiling in a flat black to make it recede but now we are thinking it definitely needs more soundproofing up there. The problem is the ceiling is pretty low (about 6'9"-7') with various ducts/pipes running around making it even lower in spots. The sound comes from everywhere above, but is most noticeable around the ducting.
I realize that it will probably be impossible to completely soundproof the area, but it would be nice to make it a little more isolated at least. The goal is to be able to record in there without worrying about the noise of a car driving by or the baby playing on the second floor. The whole space is about 15'x8'. I have photos of the space but I guess I can't post them until I'm not so new!
A couple ideas we had -
Spray foam insulation between the rafters and shear off the edges and paint?
Shove thick insulation between the rafters and cover the whole thing in a special sound insulating blanket?
Wrap the ducting? Maybe adhesive spray the Owens Corning fiberglass acoustic panels to felt and wrap that around the ducts?
Some combination of everything above?
Something we haven't thought of yet?
What do you all think?
---------- Update ----------
OH nvm I guess the photos did upload. Sorry they're upside down!
I have an 100 year old house with an unfinished basement with ducting and wires/pipes everywhere all over the ceiling. The sides and back of the house have a concrete foundation but the front had a wood one up against an open crawl space under the porch. We took out the front wall (took down the existing paneling to find the whole front of the house was supported by a single 4x4 post ) and put in an insulated wall with staggered studs and exterior sheathing/drywall. It does a pretty good job of blocking the noise from outside but you can still hear everything that goes on inside the house really well. The original idea was to simply paint out the ceiling in a flat black to make it recede but now we are thinking it definitely needs more soundproofing up there. The problem is the ceiling is pretty low (about 6'9"-7') with various ducts/pipes running around making it even lower in spots. The sound comes from everywhere above, but is most noticeable around the ducting.
I realize that it will probably be impossible to completely soundproof the area, but it would be nice to make it a little more isolated at least. The goal is to be able to record in there without worrying about the noise of a car driving by or the baby playing on the second floor. The whole space is about 15'x8'. I have photos of the space but I guess I can't post them until I'm not so new!
A couple ideas we had -
Spray foam insulation between the rafters and shear off the edges and paint?
Shove thick insulation between the rafters and cover the whole thing in a special sound insulating blanket?
Wrap the ducting? Maybe adhesive spray the Owens Corning fiberglass acoustic panels to felt and wrap that around the ducts?
Some combination of everything above?
Something we haven't thought of yet?
What do you all think?
---------- Update ----------
OH nvm I guess the photos did upload. Sorry they're upside down!