Building a sound booth

[richard]

I have a warehouse which gets a fair bit of street noise inside and I
want to build a stand-alone sound room for recording. There's reams of
stuff on the web about constructing these things and as far as
attenuating unwanted sound goes, it comes down to - HF is easy to get rid
of, but for LF, the denser the better. So I could build a brick room,
but that's a little invconvenient when I want to move. Any suggestions on
a material which is very dense but also not too difficult to handle?

Some ideas of mine:

Make some panels of 8' x 4' plywood sheets on each side of a 3" x 2" pine
frame and fill the middle with something reasnably dense but not too much
that the panel can't be stood up and bolted to the next one.

Make a room of pine frame with high density plasterboard cladding. Then
stack up some bricks or cinder blocks around the outside to the full
height. Then build another stud wall on the outside so the bricks can't
topple and to add some extra atten.

The roof is a problem, what is dense but not so heavy that I can't do a 3
metre span without internal columns?

Mind you if I could get rid of the guy who keeps riding up the side alley
on his Harley, I could cut the problem in half right there.

thanks.

[YourHomeStudioDotCom]

To keep things simple so you don't have much cutting to do, make a box
out of 1X6's that is 4X8. Then use 1X3's to frame up the inside on 12"
centers so that the middle one only touches one side of the wall and
the other two touch the the other side. This will insure that there is
no sympathethic vibration between the front and the back. Weave the
highest R- value insulation you can afford through the 1x3's. As for
putting in a window, try to make it as small as possible and use two
layers of the thickest plexiglass you can afford seperated by about 1
in (2.5 - 3cm). They should be angled so that any sound that hits it
will bounce toward the floor. This will also eliminate any glare.
Sheath the lower outside and inside with concrete backer board and the
upper in two layers of dry wall. When selecting a door, make sure it
is solid core. Also, try to isolate the bottoms of the individual
panels from the floor unless you're on concrete. If you build 6 of
these, 1 with a door, 2 with windows and 3 plain ones, you can add
another on top with dry wall only and you've got a 4x8 vocal/drum
booth. You can put the panels together with screws so if you need to,
you can dissasemble them for portability.


Good Luck,


Thomas
www.yourhomestudio.com

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[studiorat]

I hate to reply with just a link, but here is everything you need to
know really...

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=061c2f8946da4362784df0010cf67ee9

good luck.

[Deputy Dumbya Dawg]

"richard" > wrote in message
news:m7Wwh.2291$sd2.925@news-
:
: Mind you if I could get rid of the guy who keeps
riding up the side alley
: on his Harley, I could cut the problem in half right
there.
:
: thanks.


A piece of cloths line about 3-4' off the ground at
just the right time should take care of that.

[Mark]

I have a hog enthusiast that frequents my neighbors near my studio...it
kinda freaked me out for a bit, but then I realized...he rides a motorcycle
for fun, and he's young.

I hate to say it, but its only a matter of time before nature takes its
course...and I will have no more noise.

Mark



"Deputy Dumbya Dawg" > wrote in
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> "richard" > wrote in message
> news:m7Wwh.2291$sd2.925@news-
> :
> : Mind you if I could get rid of the guy who keeps
> riding up the side alley
> : on his Harley, I could cut the problem in half right
> there.
> :
> : thanks.
>
>
> A piece of cloths line about 3-4' off the ground at
> just the right time should take care of that.
>
>