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« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2013, 09:23:25 AM »
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« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2013, 09:29:10 AM »


 

 

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« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2013, 09:32:36 AM »
if my english doesn't help much, hope images can be clear enough, ha ha ha
 
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« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2013, 09:40:05 AM »
Control rooms needs more care and calculus, though. These are simple suggestions just to improve a practice room (if you need a proper planning design, you can email me at audioarteeacustica@gmail.com...)
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2013, 08:51:03 AM »
Concrete block walls with a stick-built pent roof may save you some bucks and will secure and sound proof your space. Make sure you install an insulated commercial steel entry door with adequate insulation all around and caulk/glue under the threshold. The door is where you should spend the money as it is the most vulnerable for security, temp/humidity control and acoustic discretion. The inner walls can be furred out insulating between the furring with construction foam insulation, and the sound absorbent material of your choice applied instead of reflective and smooth drywall. the more bumpy, lumpy soft stuff you use the better. Don't forget to do the door too. I use many pieces of styrofoam packing shapes to break up standing waves as well as closed and open cell foam packing shapes glued together. I can then place these around the room as needed to absorb reflections or even for controlling some room ambiance. The more you can interrupt waves the deader your room will be.

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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2013, 12:34:17 PM »
I built a studio in my basement.  I think the biggest mistake people make is equating acoustical treatment with sound-proofing.  For soundproofing you need mass.  I have room within a room construction with 3 layers of sheetrock both interior and exterior.  I have an airlock window between my booth and control room and the door going into the booth is also an airlock.  You can set-off a bomb in there and not hear it.  I have acoustic foam on all the walls and ceiling... it is dead as dead can be.  You can almost feel sound being sucked out of your ears.

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« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2013, 07:37:57 AM »
Great warn, Mike, soundproofing means reflecting sounds back to its origin (keeping the sound energy inside the room, too) and, in other hand, acoustic treatment implies in getting (at least part of) this energy off the room. Never solve sound leakage adding pourous materials (foams and fibers) over a wall, they just absorb highs (while letting lows spreading inside and leaking to outside).
 
To isolate you need massive walls (gypsum drywall or mansonry). To increase its efficience you can double the walls, but avoid them to contact each other, since lows transmits stongly by structure (mechanical transmission). This is the idea behind box-in-box concept, decoupling walls. This can be improved decoupling floor (with rubber/neoprene cushion) and roof (held with hangers). It is a good idea to base your inner wall uppon sound bands to prevent vibration transmissions, too.
 
To guarantee air in the hollow between walls to not ressonate, you should use porous material to reduce the free space, though. Inside the room, foams are usefull to attenuate reflections and reduce reverberation. But as they act on lows mainly you must match low absorption (bass traps, corner traps, etc) with care. That is why it needs carefull calculus and dimensioning.
 
Rehearsal rooms are much more simple to build then Recording spaces. Studios need more care in Isolation and control over lows. And although mixing rooms doesn't need to deep isolation, they need even more carefull sound treatment (since you mix based on what you hear and room's reflections can colour and change anything produced by your monitors). So, positioning, room geometry, room proportions, surface treatment (absorption, diffusion, reflection?) are all ultimate concerns if you want a flat and transparent room...
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« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2013, 07:53:57 AM »
I have worked on projects where PYROK ACOUSTEMENT  has been used. http://www.pyrokinc.com/index.html    
 
Multimillion $$ installations. Check it out______

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« Reply #24 on: August 04, 2013, 11:13:05 AM »
Jazzy, I ran across this whilst tracking down some other Alan Parsons stuff:
 
http://www.artandscienceofsound.com/
 
. . . . and thought about this thread.
 
J o e y

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« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2013, 11:39:46 PM »
For more inspiration and step-by-step how-not-to's, there's always Pat & Mat.

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« Reply #26 on: August 04, 2013, 11:40:05 PM »
For more inspiration and step-by-step how-not-to's, there's always Pat & Mat. Classic!