Key posts: New Studio Build in the UK, Total Sound-Proofing Required
Substantial posts by Jan Beck, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 19 of 28 posts are listed.
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Jan Beck, 16 September 2009SUNSET STUDIO Hello to the Forum and Members: Background: Aim to build a very isolated studio inside some outbuildings [Internal dimensions: 8500mm long by 3800mm wide…
Jan Beck, 17 September 2009Hi X, and thanks for your welcome! With low frequencies it pays to be over engineered. I saw a studio in London built with a coat of sand around the main construction…
Jan Beck, 17 September 2009Still at the demolition and clearing stage. Today an old chimney had to be taken down as it was protruding into the area where the control room is envisaged to be. If…
xSpace, 18 September 2009"One of the commonest questions I get from other musicians who don't have their own studios [or rehearsal room] is how to soundproof a room in their homes for…
Jan Beck, 18 September 2009Hello X, I've built 3 studios over the last 15 years. [i] The first was a Room-in-a Room in a residential home: The walls were Stud partitions separated by dense…
Jan Beck, 18 September 2009PHOTOS of the ALMS Houses. The studio is going to be built inside of some outbuildings attached to out home. They're called Alms houses. The slope of the plot is around…
Jan Beck, 21 September 2009Hello X, QUOTE: "It must be virtually zero." Never happens does it? QUOTE: What kind of sound level meter readings are you working with? Answers: [i] You're so right!!…
Jan Beck, 23 September 2009Zero Progress on the site. Design started on CAD program. Started costing of Broadband treatment and Bass Traps [Helmoltz Resonators and RockWool Hangers] On Acoustic…
Jan Beck, 26 September 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: Alms house is now stripped out of all supporting walls and chimney, rubble removed and calculations made to add additional support to hold the roof up…
xSpace, 29 September 2009Sand when poured in block cells OR as part of preparation for a slab does two things that I can count. One is that it adds mass. The number 2 is that it maintains or…
rod gervais, 29 September 2009Power Station was constructed using an exterior wall consisting of 12" masonry block - sand filled (where ever structural grout and rebar were not required) - roughly…
Jan Beck, 29 September 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: [1] 6"x3' timbers measured up for taking the roof loading. Once the wall-plates are set the joists will be be hoisted up into situ and tied to the ALMS…
Eric_Desart, 30 September 2009[c] Jan I think you should reread these posts. Where does either Rod or xSpace suggests Block-Sand-Block (or whoever for that matter)? You indeed make it a single leaf…
Jan Beck, 30 September 2009Rod, [a] Re: the 12" block you used in the Power Station - was it hollow block like this? [b] If you had to do the Power Station again [today] would GG or any other…
Jan Beck, 3 October 2009The following post is copied from another thread. I've put it here to keep the info at hand. JB Subject: Sheetblok alternative? Viscous. Sand (fine and dry, it must…
Jan Beck, 8 October 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: Slow. The host building roof trusses are taking the time up. The host masonry wallplates are non-existent and are having to be built from scratch.…
Jan Beck, 12 November 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: After an age to catch up with things we finally build the roof supports and can get on with the studio build. Now the space is free to be assessed for…
Jan Beck, 15 November 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: Cleared ACROS [Jacks] away and cleared the interior of the Alms houses. I knew that I'd figure the studio footprint out once the 2 rooms were knocked…
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Jan Beck, 10 December 2009PROGRESS ON SITE: None. and here's why....... Well, the last few weeks have been fairly disastrous. Cumbria [UK] was hit by the worst rainfall ever on record and our…