Hi "Jaaj38". Please read the
forum rules for posting (click here). You seem to be missing a couple of things!
So what should I get? On my list is some sound isolation,
sound isolation is not something you can "get". Sound isolation is the set of modifications that you make to the building structure itself. You can't buy "sound isolation" to put in your room, because there is no such thing. You can buy acoustic
treatment to put in your room, but that's a very very different thing.
"Isolation" is a system of building materials and construction techniques that you use to stop sound from getting out of your room. You cannot do that by just putting things in the room itself: you have to modify the walls, floor, ceiling, windows, doors, electrical system and HVAC system to get isolation.
"Treatment" is what you do inside the room to make it sound good, but treatment does not isolate the room. Treatment does not prevent sound from getting out. It just changes the way the room sounds, inside. You can indeed buy acoustic treatment panels of various types to put in your room, but you cannot buy acoustic isolation, because it is not something you can just put on the walls... It
IS the walls! It's the way you take apart the existing walls, modify them, and put them back together as an isolation system.
Isolation and treatment are two entirely different things.
- Stuart -
