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Old 23rd September 2012   #1
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Building a sound-proof wall!

Hey all, I'm converting a portion of a loft space into a 10x10x14 mix room. (10 deep, 10 wide, 14 ft. ceiling.)

Before I even think about acoustic treatment the space, I need to wall off this back area from the rest of the loft, hence creating a 100 sq. ft area, and sound-proof it as thoroughly as I can. (There will be editors and other office-mates in the space.)

After building the wall, I'll now have 5 surfaces (floor, ceiling, front, side and back wall) all concrete, with the sixth surface made of a completely different material. My immediate thought is that there will be incongruities in the sound unless I fill the wall with cinder blocks or something, just to keep the six surfaces consistent and create an even more thorough blocking of sound, and THEN equally treat the space for internal acoustics with some 2x2x4 fiber-glass to suck up the mountains of bass that will be created in that little room. (I have a plan for that part...)

Any thoughts on this are immensely appreciated. Thanks!

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You can't just do one wall really, to be effective at sound*proofing*, you're gonna have to basically build a whole room within a room, isolated from every surface of the original room, more or less, especially if your main concern is the bass, because it travels through almost everything with ease.
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The 10x10 footprint doesn't help in terms of room modes. Since you have height, plan on using it to your advantage. By that, I mean use it to help solve the main problems the room is bound to have in the bass to midbass range (due to the 10x10 footprint).

Since space is limited, if it was my room I'd try to start off with a few of these:

Tim's Limp Mass Bass Absorbers

Measure the room then take your best shot at building a range of depths and MLV mass/square feet specs. You are going to want some broadband absorbing panels for the mirror points, a well thought out cloud, etc.
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