Help Required

Started by mikegold on 2 December 2021. 0 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 22988.

Greetings, Thanks for maintaining this beautiful forum. This is my first post here, please excuse my MS paint skills and any possible lack of information. This is a semi hypothetical situation, but it will help determine on what i should do next with this basement that i have access to. The dimensions of the rooms are irrelevant for now, since i haven't also figured them exactly yet as well. The basement is under a 6 floor building (residential area) and it has support columns that could potentially transmit sound easily throughout the entire building. The plan is to make 3 rooms, rehearsal, recording and control room. But let's focus on the 2 of the picture i attached. These are not actual room ratios, it is mostly a theoretical question. Before i get to the Column question, here is some info: 1) Basement Floor is concrete, and i will isolate the rooms with 100mm concrete floating floor on 50mm rubber pads + porous material for damping. 2) The room walls will be MSM system, with double gypsum board 12.5mm, 150mm airgap [SPAM LINK REMOVED] filled with insulation by 2/3. 1st leaf will be resting on the floated floor, 2nd leaf on the basement floor, except for adjacent A & B room walls. 3) Basement walls are also concrete, 400mm and then there's earth/soil outside on most sides. The rooms are placed minimum 1 meter away from these walls and based on the reading & info i've gathered so far, it won't be creating a 3 leaf system with such wall dimensions and space. But please correct me if i'm wrong. 4) Outer Ceiling is 170mm of concrete, inner ceiling will be gypsum board and i would prefer to not suspend it, but we will see about that. My problem is that these columns are giving me a hard time in order to make functional rooms size wise, so i kinda have to work around these limitations. Column size is 500 by 500 mm, so they do take up some space already. The picture shows a way i thought to at least minimize the real estate they take with the isolation walls, but i'm not sure if it is a good idea. They will be decoupled, yes, but they will be inside the airspace between the 2 rooms and i'm afraid that there's a chance of them resonating the frequencies that escape the gypsum board. Is that correct? What would you do differently in this regard? Thank you. --------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS POST: IT IS SPAM. DIRECT PLAGIARISM FROM HERE: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22965 SPAMMER HAS BEEN BANNED. - Stuart -