I have one question for experts . I wanna put a window with natural light on my recording room but, its recomendable. Someone here in spain advice me to put "paves" (in spanish) . Cristal squares... I don't know how do you say...this is a picture:
what about this material?
It will be a small window, perhaps 1x1 meters...covered by a curtain if its necesary sometimes.
Hi Hugo,
these "glass bricks" are hollow inside (not solid) so I don't know how it would be for isolation.They, themselves, would create sort of a double leaf with air space, but the two leaves (two sides of a glass brick) would not be separated so...it's not ideal for isolation.If the sound transmission is not crucial by all means go for it, it's always great to have some natural light coming in
The same material you would use between the rooms within your studio - THICK PANES OF GLASS decoupled from each other.The thicker the better!The two panes should be of different thickness to prevent them from resonating at the same frequency and therefore letting all the sound at those freqs. through.I would angle the inside pane so it's not parallel to the outside one.Idealy these panes of glass would be laminated-better for sound isolation.
Do a search on "window", that should return a few plans for building propper studio windows.
cheers
Hugo, do you want this in the room you will be recording instruments in, or your Control Room?
If you don't have noise problems between your studio and the rest of the world, using the glass blocks should not be a problem. Using them between your recording room and your control room would hurt your isolation by quite a bit compared to solid well-built double walls - here is the only link I have to these blocks -
You should be able to build walls that are about 20 dB better than these - but if sound proofing to the outside is not a worry, the light will put a back on your face... Steve
. I wanna put a window with natural light on my recording room but, its recomendable. Someone here in spain advice me to put "paves" (in spanish) . Cristal squares... I don't know how do you say...this is a picture:
back on your face... Steve