Re: Music room advice?
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:58 pm
G'day Al
I have converted a steel shed which is attached to the house into a home engineering workshop complete with all sorts of large and very noisy metal working machines, Sound proofing was critical for this shed, So I did quite a bit of experimenting to get a suitable result .this is what I came up with.
Density of you walls and ceiling is the key to keeping in the sound.
Rockwool insulation bats in the walls and ceiling cavity followed by 2 layers of carpet underlay then fitted 20mm thick plywood sheets to finish off.
The end result is I can have a lathe working making so much noise that your ears bleed and on the other side of the wall the sound of the wind blowing in the trees is louder.
Now this may be a little over the top for your music room but it wasn't all that expensive the carpet underlay was free as the local carpet suppliers were glad to get rid of the underlay removed for there customers houses. The ply wood I got off E-bay Seconds at a good price and the rockwool was not too expensive and it is designed for sound proofing
A couple of things to consider if you intend to run electrical cable in the wall cavity with sound proofing be careful as the cables can overheat ,I would get your electrician to advise you. In my case I ran ducting for the wiring.
Oh and I almost forgot if you wish to keep the sound in then you must seal every gap if air can get through so can sound.
This leads to ventilation you'll need to breathe .
If you do use plywood on the walls and ceiling they are great to fix items to as you can just screw directly to the wood no need to find a stud, great for fitting out.
After building the room the acoustics with probably be too good and you'll get sound bouncing off the bare walls this is where you may need to deaden the room a bit , this can be done (as MArk has mentioned) buy just adding soft fabrics ,foam etc , but remember as you add clutter to the room this will also deaden the sound so wait until you have all your gear in the room before trying to deaden it.
One last thing I did is put at my front door an intercom with monitor so I could hear and see some one at the front door, you can also decide if you really wont to answer it.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Scott
I have converted a steel shed which is attached to the house into a home engineering workshop complete with all sorts of large and very noisy metal working machines, Sound proofing was critical for this shed, So I did quite a bit of experimenting to get a suitable result .this is what I came up with.
Density of you walls and ceiling is the key to keeping in the sound.
Rockwool insulation bats in the walls and ceiling cavity followed by 2 layers of carpet underlay then fitted 20mm thick plywood sheets to finish off.
The end result is I can have a lathe working making so much noise that your ears bleed and on the other side of the wall the sound of the wind blowing in the trees is louder.
Now this may be a little over the top for your music room but it wasn't all that expensive the carpet underlay was free as the local carpet suppliers were glad to get rid of the underlay removed for there customers houses. The ply wood I got off E-bay Seconds at a good price and the rockwool was not too expensive and it is designed for sound proofing
A couple of things to consider if you intend to run electrical cable in the wall cavity with sound proofing be careful as the cables can overheat ,I would get your electrician to advise you. In my case I ran ducting for the wiring.
Oh and I almost forgot if you wish to keep the sound in then you must seal every gap if air can get through so can sound.
This leads to ventilation you'll need to breathe .
If you do use plywood on the walls and ceiling they are great to fix items to as you can just screw directly to the wood no need to find a stud, great for fitting out.
After building the room the acoustics with probably be too good and you'll get sound bouncing off the bare walls this is where you may need to deaden the room a bit , this can be done (as MArk has mentioned) buy just adding soft fabrics ,foam etc , but remember as you add clutter to the room this will also deaden the sound so wait until you have all your gear in the room before trying to deaden it.
One last thing I did is put at my front door an intercom with monitor so I could hear and see some one at the front door, you can also decide if you really wont to answer it.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Scott