studio wall insulation -solid or loose?

[ducktape]

Hello everyone,
I'm in the planning stages of building my son a small practice studio in our basement. An 8'x8 or 8'x10 (not set on size yet) shell that will be touching the floor and nothing else. I was told that the insulation that is blown in is better to use than the rolled pink stuff- is this true? I realize that with the blown in stuff there would be some settling but I was planning on putting some sort of access panels on the top of the stud walls. I then would remove then and fill in where any settling occured. Please let me know before my wife & I go deaf and there will be no more need for the studio.

thanx,
Ducktape

 

[John Sayers]

I think that the batt form is better as it won't settle and frankly to put opennings at the top of your studs would be extremely laborious and a waste of time let alone the problem of having no noggins (what's the US term for that Brian)
Ducktape - I suggest you visit mny site

http://www.lis.net.au/~johnsay/Acoustics

if you are about to venture into acoustics and to the Studios Under Construction site if you are about to build.

http://greysfiles.com/Studio/Index.htm

cheers
john

 

[Tim Brown]

.....let alone the problem of having no noggins (what's the US term for that Brian)
Ducktape - I suggest you visit mny site

http://www.lis.net.au/~johnsay/Acoustics

if you are about to venture into acoustics and to the Studios Under Construction site if you are about to build.

http://greysfiles.com/Studio/Index.htm

cheers
john

Hey John,

are you talking about what we call a "fireblock"? (you put a small piece of 2"x4" as a spacer inside the wall-it supposedly helps control/slow down fire since it has to burn through the piece of wood to get into the next channel....probably BS, but who knows?

Tim

 

[John Sayers]

Yeah Tim - it is a 2 x 4 spacer but it stops tall studs from bowing and bending.
cheers
John