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I am new to this so here goes

I am constructing a new facility it will consist of 2 rehearsal rooms, 1 recording studio and control room, class room and DAW Suite. They are all located on the same level. My question on the attachment is a sketch of my proposed wall construction will this work as soundproofing / isolating each room.

cheers

Sandy Jones wrote:I am new to this so here goes

I am constructing a new facility it will consist of 2 rehearsal rooms, 1 recording studio and control room, class room and DAW Suite. They are all located on the same level. My question on the attachment is a sketch of my proposed wall construction will this work as soundproofing / isolating each room.

Sandy,

1st - welcome..........

Now..... you do not have an attachment I can see - could you please repost the link?

Rod

Trying again to attach. The old attachment was to large
Will try this

Cheers

Sandy,

Where in the world did you come up with this?

This is not a good sound isolation wall assembly.

For one thing it is a 4 leaf wall the way you have it detailed (brick is one leaf - then a layer of drywall - another layer of drywall - an air space - and another layer of drywall. 2 leaf systems tend to be the most effective use of money spent.

If this is something you've invented - I'll give you a "B+" for effort...... but there are much better - much more cost effective methods of acheiving sound isolation.

Please let us know what type of music and sound levels you'll be dealing with - it will make it easier for us to guide you.

Sincerely,

Rod

Hi,

My construction concept was based on a project that I was involved with several years ago that was headed up by a well respected studio designer, he had used a similar layered system for isolation within a postpro facility. More details. The rehearsal rooms (3.8w x 6.3d x 3h mtrs) will be side by side they will be equipt with the usual, drums, guitar and bass amplification and a 700W per side pa. These are my main concern. The brick layer that is on the drawing ( for which I apologise for the lack of detail) is the exsiting internal wall which is part of the cavity double brick wall that is the shell of the building. I was working on some kind of floating room within room having a double stud wall filled will different layers of rock wool and slab wool with the carpet felt and cavity layers finished of with the lo-profile high density foam covered by material covered frames. The slab wool directly onto the existing wall was meant to help with impact and sound transferance to the outside. I do hope I 'm making some sense.

Thanks for the reply

Sandy