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Our company is building out a commercial video and audio recording studio and this video focuses on the Sound Proofing methods. Including sound isolation clips, green glue, double walls, and insulation. I think that many of these techniques could be used on a media room, home theater, or even when pro level sound proofing is needed for other rooms. Best, Matt Risinger
Risinger Homes in Austin TX
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How To Soundproof A Recording Studio
Soundproofing for a studio is a multidimensional build. Wall thickness, material for the low-end res and dealing with sound waves and reflections. I have built four major recording studios but have recorded in over 100. far more then a 5min video can cover.
What? No egg cartons / boxes on the walls? Clearly not pro…
These guys are personalityproof.
In my youth I built a rehearsal studio in a garage. Double sheetrock, double doors, etc. When it was near completion I found the air leaks by walking around the garage while the band was rehearsing and listening for where the sound was leaking out. By listening I could pinpoint the leak to a specific place on a joint and fix it.
Unfortunately the studio did not work out. We had burned out bridges with out elderly neighbor before we insulate the garage for sound. She complained one more time after we finished. The police officer walked up to the garage and knocked on the door. No one answered. He then opened the door and knocked on the inner door. He explained that while he could barely hear the band, the police had received an N+1 complaint and that we would be cited the next time. Back then the law did not have a dB rating. Instead it prohibited any amplified music in a residential neighborhood. Sigh, it really was a great rehearsal space. We wound up moving to a different house across town.
I learned absolutely nothing. Good job.
How much would a project like this cost?
3am and just when I thought I was gonna go to bed lol.
what kind of spray foam insulation do you suggest? Do you use spray foam on the ceiling in addition to the mat insulation?
How do you sound proof doors and windows?
"Ehh thats great"
what about for ventilation?
3:13 Why not apply the Green Glue to the drywall edges before butting them together or to other surfaces?
3.5" Rock wool and 5/8" drywall is how I like to do things.
Overkill to the maximum.
What I don't understand is when you use caulk for the joints, how do you get a flat mud surface over top if it? If the caulk is bulging out like in the video, aren't you going to wind up with a lumpy appearance once you mud over it? And if you sand too much you're gonna be sanding caulk. Or do you use your finger to press the caulk lower than the drywall's edge and then mud it to be flush?
I know this is an older video, but I'm really curious about the window you used and the window install between the rooms? I would imagine both the window and install would need special attention for this project.
While some have already described this as overkill, it's actually what I think most acoustical engineers would regard as semi-pro. This is what you build as a local facility that does band gigs, etc., or as a high-end home theater within a modest budget. This is not how you model, build, and test places like The Power Station in NYC, Sound Kitchen in Nashville, The Village in LA, or Criteria in Miami — just so no one is misled. Did some work in this field when TEF machines and LEDE were emerging technologies and designs. Obviously I am old…
Great video, thank you
Those are not the clip types anyone should use as you have a far more direct mechanical connection than you should. Better than going straight to the stud as then the board is against the entire stud but it is still transferring all the vibration right to the hat channel. Using RSIC-1 or Whisperclip style clips are what you should use (besides doing a whole other wall..) if you want to minimize the vibration.
The principle of Soundproofing a studio is all contained in this blog –
https://www.soundproofingstore.co.uk/soundproofing-a-garage
didn't mention anything about the metal studs
hvac?
I want to play my instruments at around 8 pm and my parents say I cannot because of the neighbors, so I want to make my bedroom soundproof 🙂
My house needs this for the master bedroom and bathroom!
what about the ventilation for the AC??
What insulation did you use for the ceiling? Same stuff/process as the walls?
What kind of batt insulation did they use?
WOW! bill sound is sound proof by default!
with all that air flow= sound flow sealant, what do you do for ventilation throughout the 3 rooms of the studio. without compromising the soundproofing.
how about oxygen in the room? or high levels of carbon dioxide?
Cotton Candy! hahahaha
Mineral nonconductor like Roxul would are so much superior for sound dampening/ proofing compared to fibreglass insulation. it might conjointly offer you higher R-value, is fire-proof, waterproof, mold-resistant, and tho' they do not state it, several consultants square measure spoken language that it's white ant and different cuss proof/ resistant.
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Mineral rock wool like Roxul would have been far superior for sound dampening/ proofing compared to fiberglass insulation. It would also give you higher R-value, is fire-proof, water-resistant, mold-resistant, and though they don't state it, many experts are saying that it's termite and other pest proof/ resistant.
these are nice people, they deserve better than to have leaders who welcome and accept those who fly planes into their towers or abuse young Americans in addition to setting their own and neighbouring ppl's alit on fire. Perhaps, when the individuals and power groups occupying leadership roles in the US stop bankrupting the world and their own nation to supposedly fight the terists that they actually fund and send weapons to, the shackles which enslave humanity can be broken and the tremendous waste of resources can no longer be diverted away from good citizens who work hard to build the world instead of collecting billions of undeserved $$ while obviously lacking simple common sense that would have been achieved had they ever worked for any of what they have and have under their control. I don't think spending trillions to create monsters like alkada or taliban, or gulf tyranies really achieves any sort of American interest which should focus more on improving it's own culture and reputation instead of blaming the best historic nations in sight for the obvious broad daylight actions of SOME corrupt Americans or their "allies" who can't seem to stop mutilating the same Jesus' ppl their own nation is based on, while trying to create new found holy ""jewish" or "gulf" "states" that wreak havoc, not to mention the american made alkada that was recently recognized as and promoted to an "islamic state" as if to honur the terists in the world and pretend those poor Iranians or RUssians who are forced to spend from their already starved and battered economies to put out these American fires, are the ones responsible for the actions of unpunishable Americans who can openly brag about crimes or abuses, in locker rooms, classrooms, and worklplaces across their nation, while subduing whole world's good ppl using terror and illegal bullying tactics that amount to record setting cowardice or evil as phosphorus bombs cook alive the children where Jesus came from even on holidays like Christmas which like every other Iranian/foreign effort, achievement, or invention/innovation is taken credit for by Americans in addition, to identities and lands that r stolen and claimed by Americans pretending to be Jews for ex to avoid the burdens of legally migrating to West Asia and having to adapt or integrate into newly adopted home nations – WITHOUT SIMPLY DROPPING BOMBS< MAKING FAMILIES HOMELESS AND STEALING EVERYTHING INCL LAND, IDENTITIES, AND ACHIEVEMENTS that were even before their were alive.
listen to the quality in this video alone, damn this is boss
Great to see that… I made it too. Using woodprix handbooks 🙂
does it work on girlfrriends?
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What about air vents ?
wannabe
Make sure to decouple the floor first, then build the walls on top of rhe floor and then the ceiling making sure none make contact with the existing structure. In other words, don't let the studio/control room/iso rooms DO NOT make contact with the exiting structure. If you don't follow these CRUCIAL requirements, you are just spinning your wheels.
And they're using pink insulation!!! That's hardly even sound dampening 1 And these guys are professional!! I'm looking for some REAL facts!
Is Quietrock an option for projects like this control room?
Would be awesome to see the room once it's finished too (:
I'd love to soundproof my refrigerator.