Live room planning

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Hi, I want to turn a medium bedroom into a live room. Walls can only be treated in the interior of the room. Existing window must be kept and treated too.

This is the room shape, it's dimensions with a wall design that I keep seeing around in the web, with how "I think" corners must be dealt with.

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I went to Bob Golds Room Mode Calculator and it looks like it can actually work. (using 8 feet height)

I still need to figure out floor/ceiling treatment, window/door treatment.

I'm a noob, when it comes to soundproofing and acoustic treatment, is this making any sense?
 
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Are you trying to isolate the room from outside noise getting in or inside noise from getting out? The window and door are going to be the big 'leakers' and will, in effect, remove any advantage accomplished by the wall configuration. To effectively isolate a room, you need to build a 'room within a room', so that there are no hard surfaces conducting sound through the walls, floor and ceiling (rubber isolation pads typically between layers). Not sure what those Genie clips are, but what about the floor and ceiling?

Do a lot more reading before building anything. Your areas shown are not cubic inches, either! (2270 cu in is less than 2 cubic feet)
 
Hey, thanks for the reply! Oops, you are right! I wrote down cubic inches when it was cubic feet, little mistake that I fixed, thanks for pointing that out.

I want to avoid inside noise from getting out, this is my main concern. The outside noise is minimum, including the noise coming through the window is really low (it leads to the outdoors).

So, basically I will need to cover that window with the new wall construction in order to keep a good isolation.

Is it possible to build a window (double glass layer, soundproof) within the new wall, like they do with the window between live rooms and control rooms?

Indeed! I'm trying to do all the research before dishing out $$$ but there's so many opinions/builds/designs out there. For example, many designs include angled walls, but I read that angled walls are used to address wave reflections and that you can, instead, take care of the reflections (in a live room where assymetry isn't a problem) with the use of sound diffusers, absorption foam and bass traps but then I read somewhere else that angled walls also work as traps. Puzzling!

About the floor, I was thinking about making a floating laminated floor using "U" rubber spacers and for the ceiling, since there's nothing above this room, maybe hanging some treated panels could work?

(Current floor is a combination of concrete base with ceramic tiles. The ceiling is made with gypsum, 1 layer I believe, problematic now that I think about it, a path for indirect noise transmission)
 
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