I have done a really quick drawing to show the proposal. What do you think?
thanks sammy.
Converting Metal Garage into Studio
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Sammy in Aus
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knightfly
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Hey Sammy, thanks for updating your profile, even tho your screen name helped 
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"Soundproofing on a budget" would be as short a book as "Poland's Who's Who" and "Italian War Heroes", "Honest Politics for Caring Politicians", etc - although your basic concept is good as far as mass-air-mass, having only one layer of MDF at each location will mean pretty minimal isolation; especially since your corrugated roof metal will weaken that section (isolation-wise) at lower frequencies. I'm not sure how to calculate just how MUCH it will hurt isolation, only that it WILL.
Putting narrow battens over the joints would help a bit, but they would need to be totally glued as well as screwed in place; standard practice for gypsum multilayer walls is no less than 1 foot of offset each way for all joins between wallboards.
I'm about to crash and burn (up since 2pm yesterday, it's 8AM here now
) So if you have any ideas for increasing mass without increasing cost, I'd like to hear them... Steve
- "Soundproofing on a budget" would be as short a book as "Poland's Who's Who" and "Italian War Heroes", "Honest Politics for Caring Politicians", etc - although your basic concept is good as far as mass-air-mass, having only one layer of MDF at each location will mean pretty minimal isolation; especially since your corrugated roof metal will weaken that section (isolation-wise) at lower frequencies. I'm not sure how to calculate just how MUCH it will hurt isolation, only that it WILL.
Putting narrow battens over the joints would help a bit, but they would need to be totally glued as well as screwed in place; standard practice for gypsum multilayer walls is no less than 1 foot of offset each way for all joins between wallboards.
I'm about to crash and burn (up since 2pm yesterday, it's 8AM here now
) So if you have any ideas for increasing mass without increasing cost, I'd like to hear them... SteveSoooo, when a Musician dies, do they hear the white noise at the end of the tunnel??!? Hmmmm...