John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

FYI (no question, discussion maybe)

Something I learned today from one of the USG articles: If you have two rooms you should not build a partitian wall on a shared floating floor, because noise flanks through the floating floor.
Better is to have the partitan wall to the real floor, and a floating floor within each room (walls are not on the floating floor).
Better still is to build two isolated rooms, each with their own floating floor.

But by having the wall on the floor you're lowering the resonant frequency of it?

I was about to ask that question, thanks for posting z60611. I have a 17' X 12' concrete slab building in my backyard that I want to turn into a studio. My plan is to split the room in half and sound proof one room. I am thinking of using the staggard stud design. I will also install a floating floor.

"But by having the wall on the floor you're lowering the resonant frequency of it?" - Right - which is also part of why Bob's comment about separate walls floated on separate floors being best is true... Steve