outside studio/large shed

[curiousgeorge]

Hi guys
i have just erected my 14 ft x 7ft shed i obviously want to be in it all year round.What do i need on the walls to keep the sound inside so not to anger the neighbors.I have a carpeted floor but not sure what to put on the walls i have stood outside & you can hear everything

 

[Dogbreath]

hmmm...14X7 is pretty small.
Is it a wood or metal shed?
You plan on drums and amps or mixing only?

Sounds like your looking for isolation. Iso is gonna take something along the lines of building walls within the exterior walls. Room within a room kinda thing. Stuff some good thick insulation in there.
The room within a room thing is gonna make it smaller still though.

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[Supercreep]

Hi guys
i have just erected my 14 ft x 7ft shed i obviously want to be in it all year round.What do i need on the walls to keep the sound inside so not to anger the neighbors.I have a carpeted floor but not sure what to put on the walls i have stood outside & you can hear everything

You can't get there from here. Adding enough mass to the structure to make a difference will cause it to be too small, lacking the appropriate degree of ventilation, and possibly unsafe. Construction techniques for isolation are very different from standard construction techniques, so you can't really just "add" the mass like it was a coat of paint.

Your best bet is to suck up to your neighbors so that they won't call the cops on you. Knock off playing at a very reasonable hour, and be very flexible. This is probably the least expensive and most effective solution available to you at this point.

Unless you are very wealthy. Are you very wealthy?

 

[Supercreep]

Hi guys
i have just erected my 14 ft x 7ft shed i obviously want to be in it all year round.What do i need on the walls to keep the sound inside so not to anger the neighbors.I have a carpeted floor but not sure what to put on the walls i have stood outside & you can hear everything

By the way, I recorded and mixed an album in a 9x14 tuffshed. It can be done. But it ain't gonna be as quiet as you'd like. Think about making it as airtight as possible and working on the seal of the door. Maybe add a layer of sheetrock and a metric ass-load of acoustical caulking. The isolation is only as good as the weakest link.

I'd be more immediately concerned with treating that small room so it doesn't sound (quite as) boxy, making it a comfortable place to work, and making sure it's a safe place to store instruments and gear (temperature and humidity regulation).

Resist the urge to buy a bunch of foam, I swear. You'll be pulling it out. I mean, it's cool to use like four or five placed to control a little HF. I have some that I've attached to square bamboo placemats to make them attractive. But Owens-Corning 703 and 705 do all the heavy lifting here. Back when we were recording in the shed, I built Superchunks (google it or do a search here) in all four corners and put up panels in as many corners as I could fit. It was incredibly cramped, but we had drums, bass, guitars, a mixing desk, and a portable air conditioner in that fucker and we made it work.

http://www.littlepurplecircles.com/listen.html

Click on any of the song titles.

 

[sjjohnston]

You can't get there from here.

My reaction also. Actually my reaction to the question "what do I need to keep the sound inside?" was: you need to build another shed. Only this one would be more like a little house, but even more so.

Which, of course begs the question:

Are you very wealthy?