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Old 20th February 2010   #9
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Originally Posted by petertjed View Post
Hi Andre,

I'm looking for a solution for my home studio in my new house. The room is 3.8 m by 5.45m and 2.66m high and it on the first floor(second floor in the usa). I will use it to mix and to record vocals, acoustic guitars and small percusion. On both sides i have neigbours, the walls and the floors are 25cm concrete. There is a lot of contact noise, i can hear my neighbours close curtains. I want to build a box in a box. To hire a good engineer for the design is to expensive for me. So i'm looking for an solution for the floor.
What you are describing is a combination of flanking (sound going around the partitions) and impact noise. Doing your floor will do NOTHING for the impact noise transmitted from the neighbour's walls and floors through the walls and floors. My advice is measure what the problem is and then read up on double wall or whatever is determined to be the best construction to address the problem

Andre
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