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Originally Posted by petertjed  Hi Andre
I'm sorry, what specific info do you need to give me a good advice, I hope that this info is good. I'm living in the Netherlands.
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 and the ceiling are 25cm concrete one internal wall of the room is ytong(10cm). 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 and walls. |
Thanks, that helps a lot. From what you are describing it sounds like a combination of impact noise and contact noise, like the curtains attached to the concrete vibrating it. A well built second leaf for the walls should work well. Similar construction for the ceiling, attached to the new walls.
The floor is a difficult question. The first question is how much weight can it support? It is not fun to have the floor collapse in the middel of a session. Internal height becomes an issue as well. Assuming the new ceiling takes 15 cm of height and the floating floor 7.5 cm (a very poor floor for LF TL, but at least something for the mids and highs), this leaves ~2.41 m for internal height.
How much sound is coming throught the floor? What do you hear with a mechanic's stethoscope listening to the floor compared to the walls and ceiling?
I suggest you start a separte thread devoted to your project.
Andre