Help with noise travelling upstairs
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:09 pm
Hi everyone,
I've recently rented a basement underneath a 4 floor residential building and its garage/entrance. This place was used as a recording facility for vocals, overdubs guitar reamping etc.
During Covid we decided to do some drum recordings and received complaints during resting hours from a specific neighbor that lives on the first residential floors upstairs , right above the garage . So that’s two floors above us.
The basement's walls and floor are concrete. The live room was constructed in a room-in-a-room fashion with triple gypsum board. Suspended ceiling, no floating room. The drums have been used with a decoupled riser (2 layers of mdf on top of rockwool). It consists of superchunk bass traps on 4 corners and a full cloud ceiling , some broadband absorvers as well.
I've attached a sketchup plus some pictures, maybe someone can help to investigate what the problem is as I'm not too savvy with these stuff. Is it a lost cause, as everything been already built?
I must say though, that between the live room and the CR the noise reduction is very good, only a faint noise can be heard in the background if the drummer is an animal blasting heavy metal e.g The most obvious suspect is the supporting concrete beams that separate the basement, but the place has already been built around them. Please note that because my skethup abilities are limited the control room does not touch the supporting beams (i could draw it better) but on the concrete ceiling .
Many thanx.
SKETCHUP FILES:
The original basement before it was built.
https://mega.nz/file/Y1VkWLJB#HFupfYNuP ... MYc58_OwR0
The Studio
https://mega.nz/file/JxNEkBgQ#YhJgJQZom ... eodPnrao8I
I've recently rented a basement underneath a 4 floor residential building and its garage/entrance. This place was used as a recording facility for vocals, overdubs guitar reamping etc.
During Covid we decided to do some drum recordings and received complaints during resting hours from a specific neighbor that lives on the first residential floors upstairs , right above the garage . So that’s two floors above us.
The basement's walls and floor are concrete. The live room was constructed in a room-in-a-room fashion with triple gypsum board. Suspended ceiling, no floating room. The drums have been used with a decoupled riser (2 layers of mdf on top of rockwool). It consists of superchunk bass traps on 4 corners and a full cloud ceiling , some broadband absorvers as well.
I've attached a sketchup plus some pictures, maybe someone can help to investigate what the problem is as I'm not too savvy with these stuff. Is it a lost cause, as everything been already built?
I must say though, that between the live room and the CR the noise reduction is very good, only a faint noise can be heard in the background if the drummer is an animal blasting heavy metal e.g The most obvious suspect is the supporting concrete beams that separate the basement, but the place has already been built around them. Please note that because my skethup abilities are limited the control room does not touch the supporting beams (i could draw it better) but on the concrete ceiling .
Many thanx.
SKETCHUP FILES:
The original basement before it was built.
https://mega.nz/file/Y1VkWLJB#HFupfYNuP ... MYc58_OwR0
The Studio
https://mega.nz/file/JxNEkBgQ#YhJgJQZom ... eodPnrao8I