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James HE
a spoonfull weighs a ton
I just moved into this huge basement. One room will be the studio. It has an L shape. the larger portion is 11.5' by 12', the smaller portion is 6' x 7', both cieling are just under 8'. I want to make the small part into an isolation booth. Three walls in the smaller part are brick... very cool. I'm thinking I'll just put up some panels and make some bass traps. I'll be making the fourth wall, and putting in a single swinging patio door with 3/4" glass. I can't do a sliding door cuz the central air duct "ducks" into that room. The cieling in there is drywall, I'm thinking I'll put some sort of spacing (resilent channel) and another layer of drywall and put some treatment on that. The floor is carpet. As it is now, it's really verby with the brick walls, the ping pongy verb could be usefull. I'm going to try to make the room tunable. Is it even worthwile making such a small space tunable, or should I just deaden it and forget it?
I have all kinds of pipes and the air duct to deal with as far as the contrll room. Right now the cieling is a very haphazzard looking dropped cieling, with all manner of broken and holey acoustic tile. I defintly need to do something there to prevent the sound leaking up to the apartment upstairs. How should I approach this? I'll have to box in the airduct, and get some pretty heavy insulation around that. And I have to do everything around all these pipes!!! I dont want to put insulation around the pipes (there goes my heating in here) I guess I'll just have to put up drywall (on resilient channel, I'd go directly to the joists, but I got wires and what not to deal with too) fitting around the pipes and use about 80 tubes of caulk and a big bucket of mud to try and make an airtight seal. Two of the walls are drwall, the rest is brick, should I go ahead and double the dry wall to keep vibations from going to the next room and up into the floor upstairs? That is one area where I don't know if I need to do anything, I don't need to prevent sound going into my other rooms (I have this place to myself) just from going upstairs. I will of course be treating the control room, i just don't know how much (besides the cieling) to try and do some soundproofing.
The iso room is the first step, I think I'll start building panels and traps for the walls this week (or as soon as I can get materials) and then build the door/wall. swinging Patio doors are expensive and hard to find, I'll have to special order or do some kind of modification. I'd hate to drill for hinges on a sliding type door.. wouldn't that degrade the seal a bit? (maybe possible though, I could save over $100) I defintly want a huge glass panel for the door.
I think I have a handle on what i need to do, but, if somethings askew, or if there's an easier better way, just holler.
-jhe
I have all kinds of pipes and the air duct to deal with as far as the contrll room. Right now the cieling is a very haphazzard looking dropped cieling, with all manner of broken and holey acoustic tile. I defintly need to do something there to prevent the sound leaking up to the apartment upstairs. How should I approach this? I'll have to box in the airduct, and get some pretty heavy insulation around that. And I have to do everything around all these pipes!!! I dont want to put insulation around the pipes (there goes my heating in here) I guess I'll just have to put up drywall (on resilient channel, I'd go directly to the joists, but I got wires and what not to deal with too) fitting around the pipes and use about 80 tubes of caulk and a big bucket of mud to try and make an airtight seal. Two of the walls are drwall, the rest is brick, should I go ahead and double the dry wall to keep vibations from going to the next room and up into the floor upstairs? That is one area where I don't know if I need to do anything, I don't need to prevent sound going into my other rooms (I have this place to myself) just from going upstairs. I will of course be treating the control room, i just don't know how much (besides the cieling) to try and do some soundproofing.
The iso room is the first step, I think I'll start building panels and traps for the walls this week (or as soon as I can get materials) and then build the door/wall. swinging Patio doors are expensive and hard to find, I'll have to special order or do some kind of modification. I'd hate to drill for hinges on a sliding type door.. wouldn't that degrade the seal a bit? (maybe possible though, I could save over $100) I defintly want a huge glass panel for the door.
I think I have a handle on what i need to do, but, if somethings askew, or if there's an easier better way, just holler.
-jhe