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vinyvamos
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Hi guys,
We're starting to build a studio here in the East of Iceland, in an Ex-Fish Factory which is now a Creative Centre. We've been given a 80 sq.m room which once served as the Ice Storage, so it is HEAVILY insulated on all sides (even the floor!
). 200mm of polystyrene (the white stiff stuff) then faced with cement which is reinforced with metal mesh. I know this is thermal insulation but after some sound leak tests using an 800W PA we really were impressed by how well the room is for soundproofing.
So our plan now is to build internal walls to divide the space into 4 rooms, as seen on the image below:
Large live room to the left, then control room in the centre with windows into each of the three adjoining rooms. The rooms to the right are multi-purpose, one heavily treated and the other with minimal treatment. You can ignore the little "air-lock" room at the top as we are probably going to leave that one out now and just put a door from control room to live room.
The walls will be staggered stud 600mm spacing on two 75mm wide wall/ceiling plates with a gap of 10mm between them. All timber attached to concrete walls/ceiling/floor will have rubber/foam to isolate. Then we plan to lay two layers of 12mm sheetrock/gypps on each side with green glue between the sheets. And also 100mm rock wool within the cavity.
I would really appreciate some educated opinions on how we have planned the space, both acoustically and logically. The main room that I am questioning the shape of for acoustics and comfort is the control room. If you wanna get an idea of the sizes the space is 11.5x7.1m with a 3.4m high ceiling. We plan to have a lower, sloped ceiling in control room. We will start to lay timber for the walls today or tomorrow. Thanks in advance for the help!
We're starting to build a studio here in the East of Iceland, in an Ex-Fish Factory which is now a Creative Centre. We've been given a 80 sq.m room which once served as the Ice Storage, so it is HEAVILY insulated on all sides (even the floor!
). 200mm of polystyrene (the white stiff stuff) then faced with cement which is reinforced with metal mesh. I know this is thermal insulation but after some sound leak tests using an 800W PA we really were impressed by how well the room is for soundproofing.So our plan now is to build internal walls to divide the space into 4 rooms, as seen on the image below:
Large live room to the left, then control room in the centre with windows into each of the three adjoining rooms. The rooms to the right are multi-purpose, one heavily treated and the other with minimal treatment. You can ignore the little "air-lock" room at the top as we are probably going to leave that one out now and just put a door from control room to live room.
The walls will be staggered stud 600mm spacing on two 75mm wide wall/ceiling plates with a gap of 10mm between them. All timber attached to concrete walls/ceiling/floor will have rubber/foam to isolate. Then we plan to lay two layers of 12mm sheetrock/gypps on each side with green glue between the sheets. And also 100mm rock wool within the cavity.
I would really appreciate some educated opinions on how we have planned the space, both acoustically and logically. The main room that I am questioning the shape of for acoustics and comfort is the control room. If you wanna get an idea of the sizes the space is 11.5x7.1m with a 3.4m high ceiling. We plan to have a lower, sloped ceiling in control room. We will start to lay timber for the walls today or tomorrow. Thanks in advance for the help!
