About Silence(Isolation room (is this the name? :D)

[WeezyPD]

let's see....

What materials i should take for Silence room.Egg carton?How to isolate that room with 2x2 m dimension??


Please help me

thanks kiss@!@

 

[mshilarious]

See, now this thread should be in Studio Building!

Don't use egg cartons, they don't work. Your choices are:

- acoustic foam. Be sure to buy proper material; Auralex et al. There is cheap, untested foam on the market that doesn't work properly and is a potential fire hazard. Caveat emptor.

- rigid fiberglass insulation. This is what real pro studios use. You can either DIY by sourcing it at a local commercial insulation supplier, or buy prefab panels from a number of vendors.


Those are all room treatment materials, which are very important for good sound inside the studio. But isolation requires construction. Unless you're ready for some 2x4s and lots of drywall, stick with room treatment.

 

[suprstar]

What do you want to isolate from what? Are you just making a vox booth and trying to keep outside sounds off your tracks? Soundproofing requires mass and decoupling. "How much soundproofing do you need?" is really the question. You can stagger your studs, use RSIC clips, and double layers of drywall with green glue in between, that'd be a really quiet room! Search for some of that, you'll get a good starting point.

Egg cartons won't do anything at all. Youre probably thinking of acoustical treatment which soaks up reflections and reverb, and egg cartons dont even do that either.

 

[Ed Dixon]

Is this an existing room, or one your building? To some extent, isolation is related to the average background noise to deal with.

Consider recording 30 min of nothing, and see what you get. Things like cars, dogs, A/C on/off, etc. Then you have some idea of the level of problem you've solving.

Ed

 

[twentyfootman]

green

Hey superstar, do you have any practical experience installing green glue?