Hello all.
I am in the proces of designing my studio. The building is currently divided into two rooms as you can see on the drawing. I need a little help deciding weather to keep the rooms as they are (solution 1), or to tare down the inner walls and rebuild them from scratch (solution 2). Of course the first solution is a lot easier, but is the second better in terms of accustic and sound proofing?
My needs are the following:
I need a controlroom, for mixing and working as such. And then a booth, primarily for vocals, guitars and so on. - However I would like to be able to record drums in the booth on occations.
The building is attached to my new house, and I have a couple of neighbours, the closest about 20 meters away.
I am thinking that I need to build a room in the room (in the booth) to insulate the sound enough as to not border my neighbours at all. any thoughts? The building has cavity walls. and concrete floor
Any advise is greatly appreciated!
Need help choosing design - studio Denmark
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 15661.
maybe like so?
Thanks alot!
I especially like the small room. I'm not sure I can live without some of the windows in the control room though, any solution on that problem? :)
Any chance you can move those windows? The two you have are right where your speaker soffits need to go (see Glenn's sketch). Unless you can come up with transparent speakers, there isn't much chance of using those! :)
But if you could replace those two with a single window in the middle, then you could get your wish. You could replace the center panel in Glenn's design with a second pane of glass, and bingo! Natural light.
However! 2 questions:
1) How much isolation do you need?
2) How much money do you have?
Both of those are major factors in getting the design right, and figuring if you can afford to have natural light or not.
- Stuart -
Anything is possible;)Any chance you can move those windows?
True!But if you could replace those two with a single window in the middle, then you could get your wish. You could replace the center panel in Glenn's design with a second pane of glass, and bingo! Natural light.
I'm not sure... My main concern is to isolate the booth completely from neighbours, and as much as possible to the rest of the house. Im thinking room in the room with 100mm air gab and the new wall with 100mm insulation? Maybe floating floor, if necensary? In the control room, I thinking double up on glass and accoustic walls may be enough?1) How much isolation do you need?
well... Haven't made a budget yet, trying to find the best solution first. But I'm probably on a medium budget. What about this solution would that work?2) How much money do you have?
I wouldn't do that. Your speakers are firing across the short dimension of the room, instead of down the long dimension, and even worse the front half of the room is not symmetrical! Regarding your comment on floating you floor, you might want to take a look at these before you do that: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8173 http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/p ... /ir802.pdf Also, regarding the question of isolation: you can't guess. You need to take real measurements of how much you already have and how much extra you need, using a real sound level meter, and providing actual figures, in terms of decibels. Based on that you can choose the right method to get that amount of extra isolation. Any other method is just pointless. You can't guess at acoustics, and hope that a certain plan might work. Sound waves don't react too well to "hopes" and "expectations"! :) They only react to mass, rigidity and gas flow resistance (among other things). It's not hard to do: all you need is a sound level meter and a good loud source of full-spectrum sound. (A complaining neighbor also helps! ) - Stuart -What about this solution would that work?
I see...I wouldn't do that. Your speakers are firing across the short dimension of the room, instead of down the long dimension, and even worse the front half of the room is not symmetrical!
Fantastic!, thanksRegarding your comment on floating you floor, you might want to take a look at these before you do that: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8173 http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/p ... /ir802.pdf
The thing is, I wont get the house for another 4 months, but wanted to get started planing.Also, regarding the question of isolation: you can't guess. You need to take real measurements of how much you already have and how much extra you need,
Damn it! :) So the window like this would work, a good solution, thanks a lot.Sound waves don't react too well to "hopes" and "expectations"! They only react to mass, rigidity and gas flow resistance (among other things).
Yup! That's a good basic layout for you to star planning with. You can actually go pretty far with planning over the next four months (and you'll probably need all of that time to do so!). Probably the only thing that will change once you do the actual measurements is the mass (thickness) of your leaves, and the depth of the gap between them, which might also imply some changes to the final room dimensions. But you sure can do most of the design before you get to the point of deciding on the amount of isolation. Don't forget the electrical and HVAC part of things: Those seem to be the rather important bits that many people who come here forget at the beginning. - Stuart -So the window like this would work, a good solution, thanks a lot.