[mr_floam]

Okay, here's the deal. I recently purchased a home with a detached garage. My wife gave me the go-ahead to convert it into my own rehearsal/recording studio. After about 4 months of heavy research (including buying and reading Rod's book) I think I'm finally ready. I start getting ready to draw up and submit a design here when I learn that in my city it is illegal to convert the garage into anything other than parking. I spoke to the planning dept. and was told, very sternly, that converting the garage into a living space, which a studio would amount to, is a very serious offense. So now I'm a little pissed, but resigned. I cannot build a room within a room. Oh well. I am allowed to put up dyrwall and electrical, however. I just can't put a wall in front of the garage door. So my question is: Would hanging the drywall on resilient channel have any effect on the transmission to the outside? I know the sound is going to fly right through the garage door, no helping that. But would the rear and sides of the garage benefit at all? If I can at least lower the level to my rear neighbors I'd like to do that. Any advice is greatly appreciated.