Studio construction Help!!!!

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umm i'm kinda trying to avoid the 160 for the 2 panes of 3/8. since it will take so long and is expensive, when i can get 4 panes of 1/4 for $80 and have half inch on each side and cheaper!
 
mudding joints:
do you just mud the joints just like regular dry wall or is the some other way. also what is the best way to screw 2 layers of drywall to z channel?
 
Oh Sorry - I see what you mean. Yes you can use 4 panes of 1/4", I'd use just three, but the prob is resonances. One solution is to get a glass cutter and make a thin slice of the glass say 1/2" wide and run it down the middle at 90 degrees and glue it to the outer panes. This will stop it from resonating.

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cheers
John
 

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can someone give me some advice on mudding joints or should I just mud the joints like normal?
 
my isolation

for my home studio isolation, i only use aregular wall, plus some wood and some fabric.. isolates about 40% of the sound
 
New pictures coming soon from the past 2 weekends! :D

How might someone get listed on John Sayers "Studios Under Construction" site? :)

Also do you have any suggestions on how I can get a hold of some counter top Laminate so I can make my own? Custom colors would be cool what's the going rate for that stuff.

Also referring to my original question should I just mud the drywall joints just like normal or should I use some kind of caulk?:confused:
 
 
ok this weekend i'm going to start hanging drywall on the ceiling. anyone have any clues or special tools to help to me hang this stuff. its very heavy and hard to hold up while i'm trying to screw it up there.
 
I believe they make these extra tall car-jack looking things to hold the sheetrock in place. You might be able to rent one from somewhere.
 
Ask Executivos. He rented some of those when he hung his drywall. I'm sure any rental place will have them, though.

Bushice
 
need help! fluffy vs. dense sound panels

I am am about to attempt building sound panels for my home recording studio. Using either fluffy fiber glass insulation or the denser fiber glass 'styrafoam style' board. That would be wraped in cloth and shaped in a paramid fashion.


which materal would be most effective for sound absortion, diffusing, and/or trapping?



p.s. foam is a possiblity as well but only if the extra cost equals significantly better performance.


Thanks kapton,
 
AAAARRRRHHHH..... :mad:

After cleaning the damage from "Great Mothers Day Flood of 2002" (20 inches of standing water) out of the basement we've finally got enough guts to go downstairs and complete the control / tracking room side of the studio. We’ve plugged up the holes and I think were ready to restart again. My question is what kind of wall treatment we should look at for the rear wall. As you can see from the updated picture that east wall faces directly the opposite of the monitors. I need some ideas on that and the cheapest /easiest and most effective (yea I know I’m asking a lot) way to prevent music from going upstairs. Thanks and I’m glad to be back on the board again.

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Ok after a lot of stalling and planning were going to finally do the control room side of the studio this week (vocal room later). Right now my question is on doors and the ceiling. I have no clue on what to do for a door any suggestions?!?!

I have an illustration below of what we are about to do for the ceiling. I think (hope) this will be enough. I want to keep sound from upstairs from getting down and vise versa. And suggestions?

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Also we would like to put a sheet of plywood or particle board behind the drywall on the lower 3 feet of a couple of walls so that when we screw something into the wall it bites into the plywood. Were using metal studs (illustrated in previous post) so I’m thinking something like the below picture. Or should I just get rid of one of the sheets of drywall and use the plywood as a replacement? Suggestions?

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Thnak you for your prompt response!
 
Another thing... what Elevate was referring to in an earlier post is known as a drywall lift. You should be able to rent them at your local rental place.

I highly recommend you use one. We used one in finishing the basement in our last house and it was a life saver! Especially when your trying to hang 5/8" drywall on the ceiling.

They are super simple to use and come apart into two pieces. Ours fit easily in the back of our Subaru Forester ;)

Here is a photo:
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It looks like your construction is coming along very well! You're going to have a fun space to record in. My only questions is this, why resilient channel on both sides of the wall? Seems like I read that recently while researching the constrcution of my own place.

I could be, of course, completely off base and terribly wrong.
 
well we have alot of extra resilient channel so we decided to use it on the back of the wall as well as the front. We are getting "drywall jacks" (rented them today pick up tommorow) here are some updated links i hope work

drawing for plywood issue
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drawing for layout concept
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drawing for ceiling
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sorry for the loss of the pictures
 
Those links work just fine!

Hopefully someone will chime in on the channel issue because, if I remember correctly, having it on both sides of a wall negates the effectiveness of it in the first place.
 
yikes! is not to late on the other side of the wall. we're going to drywall one side this week and the other side some other time.
 
Lunatic - I think you have it reversed. The channel is most effective when placed on both sides of the wall. It's been said that it has little effect when placed only on one side but I still used it on all my exterior walls too. Anything to reduce physical contact with the studs and allow the sheetrock to "flex" will certainly have a positive effect.

DD
 
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