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Blew my mind. Duh . The thing specific to the thing, doesn't always help said aspects about said thing. Tky.

Thanks!

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Change the title of your video. This is not a tutorial on soundproofing existing walls, this is a construction project.

Same setup as mine, but I have a sofa and door on LHS. The door is next to my desk, and the drum is at RHS back corner.

I don't understand how bass traps wouldn't work in a vocal booth, what vocals are going below 100hz

What's your opinion on using hangers like the RSIC-SI-1 Ultra Spring Isolator or Kinetics ICW wood-frame ceiling hanger for sound isolation when there are people living in the floor above? Would they work better than or about the same as the IB-1 clips?

Thank you very much for this lecture! It's absolutely great! It's loaded so much up to the nose with awesome knowledge of yours. And it is very logically guided too. Great stuff, an encyclopedia-entry-like grade.

Now I know.. that I dont care enough to do this for my place 😅😅

Hi quick question, I found a fiberglass door that a 100 pounds and 2 inches thick. would be better than a solid core door that’s only 60 pounds and is 1.40 inches thick

Great Video cheers

There is a really high dog whistle frequency in the audio of this. Sounds like 16k or something. It’s pretty fatiguing. I wonder what happened but wanted to let you know in case you’re able to do something about it for future videos.

The code in my township actually requires that there needs to be a 1 inch gap from the framing/stud and the concrete walls in a basement. I think it has to do with fire safety but I’m not sure.

Just to be clear, are you saying that we use adhesive for the 2 layers of 5/8 drywall on top of the foam for the walls?

on my concrete floor, should I build a subfloor so that the surface is level?

This is the only video I've seen of this guy and literally his argument is that 'the stuff is too good, other areas suck'. First off dude, just make sure your door has a divider to prevent direct sound flow. Two, put acoustic foam on the outside of the door to help stop waves from traveling through.. I literally just wanted to see if MLV is good for a subfloor for dampening, this video did nothing except throw around logical fallacies while at the same time using data from a direct competitor of MLV to say it's better...

Thank you! I've been waiting for this one! For a lot of us, space is at a premium. What is your take on staggered studs between rooms? Double wall system (two 2x4's + 1" gap + 5/8 drywall x four) is about 10.5" floor space while staggered studs on a 2x6 is about 8" or on a 2x4 is about 6". Granted on a 2x4 you'd have to use 2x3's, maybe even placed perpendicularly, to have enough staggered space for insulation. STC is around 55 with 2x6 plate with staggered 2x4s. Do you think that would be adequate for most basement situations? My feeling is home theaters need to be less "perfect" as recording studios as you don't want the perfect recording session ruined by hearing a neighbor yelling at kids to "get off my lawn" with a megaphone. 😄

One thing to note about building on a concrete slab is that it may eat up your tactile bass performance. I had to add Buttkickers to my theater as the concrete was not transferring any tactile bass feel from my subs. Or you could probably oversize your subs for the room to try and get that back.

I totally understand the logical conclusion you arrived at, but Iso rooms have a ton of unique utility. Provided it's an iso room that's been well constructed and built with acoustic design in mind. Not sure a 2'x2' closet is pulling it off. A lot of singers just like stepping into a room free of judgement, where they can belt out 50 takes, crack their voice in the bridge, and perform the song like it's the only thing that exists. It also allows bass and guitar players to isolate the output of their amplifiers and hear what the mics are actually doing while tracking overdubs (often inside the control room and assuming you don't have a live room).

Once the concrete slab is in place and the structure is built on top of it, how should I install flooring in the studio? Would carpet be suitable, or is vinyl planking a better option? How should we proceed to place the floor on top of the slab?

Hi, thanks for the information. I got question about ceiling panel air gap, can I go as low as possible or not more than the depth of the panel? It’s 5.5 inch panel

Very interesting! Also should a voice actor have a larger space for their recordings as well? Or can a 5x5 or a 7x7 booth work fine for voice actors?

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Conflict of interest. Testing published by Green Glue lmao.

I tried your link. It doesn't work.

Do you leave untreated concrete as your finished floor? Or do you put some kind of engineered hardwood or something down over the slab to finish the room?

I've found that dry baked sand can drastically improve isolation. Inside doors, floors, monitor stands, even flush-mount loudspeaker walls.

nice video. thank you. question. In my existing basement I am going for adaptive or variable foil/film. I will use metal studs as well. Knauf System. Would it be possible to put the film/foil within the 2 drywall layers as well? It would be pretty heavy acoustic knauf boards (EU) so base material is standard dry wall but bit more density. In my setup it will be 40mm Insulation on the wall without gap. 80mm in the metal frame/stud. 2 drywall sheets. then there will be a 60mm installation layer with cables etc and insulation and one drywall sheet. I might want to up the 120mm inside insulation to 180mm to prevent to move the condensation threshold to the inside as well. (1/3rd rule?)

Green glue also does not apply evenly on all panels and runs down your walls due to gravity. Each part of your walls will have different characteristics because of the lack of consistency.

Can I use two layers of plasterboard screwed on top of each other or does something need to go between these layers, like carpet glue? What can I use to go between other than green glue or Tecsound as these are expensive? Thanks

Just a note on vapor barriers in Canada. The building code in all Canadian provinces is to use 6-mil Poly vapour barrier between the drywall and insulation.

You are correct about the weakest link being an area of focus. Removing MLV makes walls equally as bad as doors and windows. Doubling up doors and windows is the best way to go. That makes them as soundproof as your MLV sandwiched or green glued walls.

Thanks for sharing the video. I'm building a house with a studio for podcasting. I was considering spending $3500 for Acoutiblok and $2000 for labor for a 16'x16'x9' room in addition to the drywall and insulation batts. You are the third resource that has indicated that soundproofing is only as good as its weakest link. It's like a solid titanium boat with a small hole in it, you will still leak water in. I'll spend my money on improving the door and adding an insert to the windows (required by code) adding more mass via double layers of 5/8" drywall. Very good comments from others on this thread.

"sound proof" is a misnomer, "sound isolation" is the proper terminology.

very helpful guide. in a existing garage with a concrete wall, the external practicing room wall would be the existing concrete wall? then a frame+insulation, followed by 1inch gap, followed by the internal frame + insulation + doubled drywall. how to keep the insulation fixed without falling into the 1 inche gap? for me it was very confused this part @4:28. And in case of not using drywall would two layers of 18mm mdf give the same output?

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I think what may not be considered here is how the fiberglass slumps and compresses vs how mineral wool holds its shape and fills areas completely. The main difference is not the material so much but more its construction/ density. It's easier to do a good job with rock wool.

2:07 - edit... why the edit?

Very good, thanks!!

This was so useful, thank you so much for making this video

Great resource! With a room in a room, does it make sense to caulk all corners where timbere meets timber or OSB meets timber?

Thank you so much sir

I used Safe & Sound in a box like structure to dampen the sound from my very noisy dust collector. It made a huge difference. Probably reduced the db by at least 80%.

I'm in the current stage of designing my studio now. It will be built from the ground up and I'm curious how you connect the roof rafters to the walls without coupling rhe walls together in a double wall setup.

Where I live all parts of a building are made of brick and cement or concrete, and we dont use insulation because we barely have changes in temperature in the diffetent seasons, how should I do this second wall in my case?

You probably don't have to be a civil engineer but your math needs to be spot on for those isolators. I still wonder about liquid rubber for applications such as this, especially as a buffer hanging drywall. Just slapping on some liquid rubber onto a bottom plate would be so much easier but, unfortunately...at least as far as I can tell, there are no studies or data on how well that would work. Floating a wall is like adding resilient channels for drywall: if it's done perfectly it could help tremendously but, if not, a whole lot of time, energy and resources could be for naught.

In a basement, what about isolating the wall connection to the ceiling?

@4:25 The triple leaf effect is not caused by a reduction of the air gap. The difference between #3 and #6 is only 1.25" air gap; that cannot explain the 23dB difference. The triple leaf effect is caused by sound resonating from the first wall onto the studs then to the second wall, then to the 3rd wall. Because the walls are so large, they resonate a lot of sound energy. In #6, the studs resonate the sound energy onto the other studs, but because the studs have such a small surface area, they don't resonate much energy.

Do you have a video on treating a small /medium size room for recording vocals and mixing vocals ?

can you help me please