Hello everyone. I’m planning on building a single freestanding room in my backyard (residential area) as a recording/rehearsal area. It will be connected to the control room (already built in the house) via a video link, so at this point I’m looking for the best possible sound insulation on a budget. The area I have to work with is W 4500 x L 6000 x H whatever I want… I hope you guys post in metric!
I was planning on building all the walls with besser concrete blocks W 190 x L 390 x H 190. The inside wall sitting on a concrete slab, the outside one sitting on a separate concrete strip footing, with a gap of 150 between them to be lightly packed with rockwool insulation. I’m unsure what to use for my inside ceiling. I’m going for a tiled roof.
Is a 5 degee splay of the south wall, east wall, and ceiling enough?
Would I be better off varying my materials more to stop a wider spectrum of frequencies escaping, or does it not matter because of the immense mass of besser bricks?
Is a 150mm gap between my walls enough?
How the heck do you keep a ceilng of great mass up?
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Apologies if this has been covered in previous threads.
Max
Plans for building studio from scratch
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 2820.
I strongly suggest against this. If you do, you'll end up with differential settlement...(your exterior walls will settle more than the slab due to less of a bearing).The inside wall sitting on a concrete slab, the outside one sitting on a separate concrete strip footing...
ok, i hadn't anticipated how the bearing would sink the footings. In that case, how would you recommend i go about reducing sound transmission through the floor inbetween the walls (unless of course you think a floating floor with drum riser and suspended bass rig would be sufficent in stopping low feqs escaping)?
My building is all one slab - there is no floor isolation, but my drums are on a riser filled with sand floated off the floor on neoprene pucks.
The sound proofing is close to perfect - you cannot hear anything outside when inside the volume is as loud as you can possibly get it.
If you want to float the floors - then there are many posts on the forum that explains how to do it.