WOW BACK AT YOU! That is awesome! I can't believe made the list!
Not only is it nice to look at, but the functionality is insane! I have been playing/recording music for over 20 years now and never
had a room like this and I can't believe that I do now!
It's just inspiring to go into!
Thanks once again Stuart! Your help on my project has been invaluable, the time you take to help people out is really something
else! I have learned SOOOO much about studio construction/acoustics here!
I tell everyone about this place and how helpful and knowledgeable the community is!
Your build has been an inspiration to me, and I'm sure to others. Thanks so much for providing the pictures and updates along the way. I recall on my last build seeing people say how much it helped them stay motivated and I was a little unsure how anyone could ever lose motivation, but having gotten married and had a family since then I realize that it's not so much a question of motivation, but rather life just getting in the way sometimes. My build has been on hold for the last 6 months or so and I'm only now just getting back here, but was so pleased to check your thread and see that you're complete and with such fantastic results.
I'd love to come take a nose around sometime and ask a few questions as we had discussed a while back if I may so cheeky. We have friends in Gainesville that we visit quite regularly, and it's really not too far from Leesburg. I am so encouraged by your results - especially given that our house is quite similar it seems, and I was a little skeptical that I would be able to achieve late night drumming in this house given how much the sounds seems to easily travel through the floors and walls. Just goes to show how these approaches work if you follow the details to the tee as you have done.
So wishing you a very Happy New Year, a very well done, and I'll shoot you a PM with my cell #.
All the best,
Andy
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger... still, wear a hard-hat just in case!
amac2673 wrote:Alright! Finally finished beefing up and sealing the outer leaf! What gigantic pain in the --- that was! I laid out my walls and got the first built and temporarily tacked up last night.
Hopefully will be finished framing this week, going to try and do a little after work each night but we'll see how that goes. It's really HAPPENING!!!
Hi Allen,
I'm hoping you're still around to answer a question I have about your beef up. I noticed recently while studying your beef up pictures back on page 4, that there was one pipe that runs perpendicular to the joists (presumably a gas pipe?) that was not enclosed in a soffit. I was wondering what the reason for that was. I have a similar gas pipe that I've been wondering if I shouldn't try to re-route since it spans multiple joist bays just like yours.
Many thanks and hope you are well,
Andy
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger... still, wear a hard-hat just in case!
Since that is a gas line made out of heavy galvanized steel I was not worried about sound traveling through it to the rest of the house. It is not like the other vents and HVAC stuff that I enclosed in that those other vents and ducts open up to every room in the house and would be piping audio from the studio to the every room in the house too if they were not soffited.
Those soffits in the joist bays are double drywalled and filled with R19 and acoustically sealed, the penetrations where gas line runs through them have drywall attached to the outside and are acoustically caulked as well.
Personally I would not spend the time or money to reroute any of your gas lines. I don't think any benefit would be worth the headache.
So your gas line is not going to other levels of the house correct? In my case the gas line runs up into the kitchen upstairs which is what has me concerned.
That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger... still, wear a hard-hat just in case!
Ya our gasline goes upstairs too. We have a gas fireplace but no issues with noise do to the gasline.
It is such a small dense pipe vibrations don't carry through it. The only thing I would be worried about
is sealing any penetrations where it is going through walls or between floors. Other than that I don't think
you are going to get enough benefit/NR to justify the expense and time of moving them.
I have learned SOOOO much about studio construction/acoustics here! 
