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Yes indeed...I was planning on building my new control room in my bed room.. its 9 x 11 with 7.5 foot ceilings. My parents wont let my put a hole i nthe floor to run a snake downstairs for doing drums and guitars and vocals. I really wanted to be a floor up to get more isolation in the control room. Now everything is going to have to be downstairs. the only isolation ill have is a piece of drywall between the control room and the laundry room(which i will have to use for tracking drums). I'm very upset. Does anybody have suggestions on what i can do to be more isolated so that i can hear more of whats comign out of the monitors than the actual instruments??? my basement is way bigger than my bedroom which sucks becasue i had planned on treating the bedroom. Now I am stuck down here where there is a crappy echo and hi frequencies run the place.
 
DAVE! Quit it, he might do it. :D HAHAHA!

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Does anybody have suggestions on what i can do to be more isolated so that i can hear more of whats comign out of the monitors than the actual instruments???
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We can offer some basic suggestions, but unless we know some things about the existing conditions, chances are we are wasting our breath.....er, time :D The fact is, isolation is difficult to achieve under some conditions. Wood framed floors common to both spaces, hollow core doors, air gaps or leaks around doors/pipes/other, common HVAC ducts between rooms, common joist cavities above both rooms, and electrical outlets feeding both rooms from the same stud cavity etc are but a few of the culpret flanking paths for sound transmission.
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Here is a little insight. Sound propagates in two ways. Via the air, and structurally. To impede air propagation, all holes, gaps and any place there is an air "connection" between the two rooms must be blocked. Either by caulking, seals, weatherstripping, thresholds and or gasketing. This is your FIRST line of defence against sound propagation from one space to the other.
The next line of defence is MASS. Unfortunately, IF some conditions such common wood floor framing exist, even enormous amounts of MASS may offer little improvement/correction. However, if you have a concrete slab, a fair transmission LOSS improvement may be achieved by adding layers of drywall on BOTH faces of the partition wall and ceilings. But even this is NOT optimum. DECOUPLED MASS is the best assembly bang for the buck. This amounts to ONE LEAF of a two leaf system, decoupled via Resiliant Channel, Staggered stud, or Double wall. However, this also translates into a bigger budget.

So, without knowing what the conditions are, thats about the best I can offer for the moment. I hope that helps.
fitZ
 
Shout It Out said:
Yes indeed...I was planning on building my new control room in my bed room.. its 9 x 11 with 7.5 foot ceilings. My parents wont let my put a hole i nthe floor to run a snake downstairs for doing drums and guitars and vocals. I really wanted to be a floor up to get more isolation in the control room. Now everything is going to have to be downstairs. the only isolation ill have is a piece of drywall between the control room and the laundry room(which i will have to use for tracking drums). I'm very upset. Does anybody have suggestions on what i can do to be more isolated so that i can hear more of whats comign out of the monitors than the actual instruments??? my basement is way bigger than my bedroom which sucks becasue i had planned on treating the bedroom. Now I am stuck down here where there is a crappy echo and hi frequencies run the place.
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Why not run a long multicore all through the house, from the tracking room up to your bedroom? Only thing is, you'll need to have the doors open so the sound will just go up. But wires everywhere will annoy the fuck outa your rents until they agree to let you cut the hole, lol.
 
Run a snake cable through the wall, outside the house, to the room you want to record in, enclosed in conduit.

Then paint to match the color of the house. Do it while they're away on summer vacation, and they'll never notice it.
 
Hahaha...actually the cable thing will probably work, they will hate cables in the hall way...you guys rock! Im workings on the size of my rooms to post tonight maybe some pictures...so any help with treating fro mthe diagnosis i give it would help!
 
Put a hole in the wall close to the floor then drill up from the basement into the studwall cavity. Measure twice, drill once!!!! Run your wiring through it and into the bedroom. I'm sure your parents just don't want a tacky hole in the floor that is seen. You could even make a wooden face plate for the wall so it looks more pro than a hole in the drywall with a snake poking out. Then there's not a hole in the floor per say.
 
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Hahaha...actually the cable thing will probably work, they will hate cables in the hall way...you guys rock! Im workings on the size of my rooms to post tonight maybe some pictures...so any help with treating fro mthe diagnosis i give it would help!
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No probs. Just leave them there constantly with the excuse that you dont wanan have to keep running every time u wanna record, lol you should see all the cables running down the stairs to and from my bedroom, lol. Rents don't seem to mind though. Tis my space upstairs, they don't go up! lol Tis only 4-5 cables though.
 

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i dont know if this is legal haha but im starting a new thread for my studio construction... sorry if im screwing things up.
 
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