MULTIPLE RECORDING STUDIOS IN THE SAME BUILDING HELP!!!

Started by andreacarvajal on 4 November 2011. 1 reply.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 17186.

Hi Everyone, I am an Interior Design student about to graduate. I decided to do for my thesis a venue for local musicians and I will design 4 recording studios in the same bulding. I would like to know if it is ok to make these studios sharing a wall? Also, what is the best angle degree for the walls? :mrgreen: I will appreciate your responses, Andrea
Hi Andrea. Please check the rules for posting. You seem to be missing something. To answer your question:
I would like to know if it is ok to make these studios sharing a wall?
That depends on what you mean by "studio", and what you mean by "sharing", and what you mean by "wall"! :!: :shock: :D Sorry to be so obtuse, but there are several possibilities here, and you didn't provide anywhere near enough information to provide a reasonable answer. If you are talking about four fully decoupled rooms, including a live room, a control rooms, a vocal booth and an iso booth, are all housed together within the same MSM outer leaf shell, all correctly built, sealed, decoupled and free from flanking paths, then yes you can do that. In fact, that's a very common way of building studios. On the other hand, if you are talking about four drum rehearsal rooms all sharing the same fully coupled light-weight uninsulated single-leaf wall built from 2x4's with 12mm drywall on each side and no insulation in the cavity, then the answer is no, that would be a terrible idea. And of course there are numerous variations in between those two extremes. If you want a more generalized answer: Yes, with caveats, if you design and build it correctly, otherwise no. - Stuart -