How good is Green Glue?

[Wurlitzer]

I've seen various reactions to this stuff from people who seem to know what they're talking about, saying that it ought to be really good, and that there are sound technical reasons why it should make a big difference.

But I've yet to see anything from anyone who has actually used it.

My inner, plasterboard walls will go up in a few weeks and I really need to decide whether to go with this. I'm tempted because I want to get the best soundproofing I can without excessive thickness of wall. I know the easy and cheap solution, a la Paul, is to just keep piling on more layers of plasterboard. But I don't want to lose another few inches of space all round the room.

If a layer of Green Glue between my plasterboard layers would have a similar effect to another few layers of plasterboard, or better, it would be worth doing for me. I looked at it a while ago and calculated it would cost me about £450 to cover the room, although that was based on the American prices on their site. I believe it's now being imported into the UK by RGB so I'll need to look into what they're charging.

At that kind of money it's doable, within my budget, but not something I'd be happy to just piss away. I'll want to know it's going to make a substantial difference since I could alternatively buy some serious gear for the studio with the same money.

Anyone used it?

[len-morgan]

You seem to be in a good position if you think about it. The GG goes between the last two layers only so you actually can put off the decision for a little while.

Unfortunately, the only real resource to have to determine if it's "worth it" is the manufacturer of GG. Any bets on their views? I don't doubt that they are honest folk but the reality is I for one (and probably almost everybody else here) have neither the desire to build a room/studio without GG, tear it down then put it up again with GG to say, "Yeah, that really is better."

I might be able to help you a little but I cannot give you a firm idea of when because on my vocal booth, I've got two doors (one into the booth and one from the main recording room that are only about 8 or 9 inches apart and I intend to make two more or less identical doors/seals one with GG and one without so by only closing one of them at a time, I should be able to tell you whether or not the GG makes a difference. Assuming of course that I can remember which door is which.

Stay tuned...

len

[sharward]

You'll want to follow my "Would Green Glue Save Lot of Work/Materials on My Ceiling?" thread and the "Definitive word on Green Glue?" thread over on StudioTips. Also, there's my post regarding my experience so far with Green Glue. Granted, my project isn't finished yet, so it's not a simple "before/after" comparison... But you can get an idea of how easy it is to work with. Kind of fun actually.

--Keith

[knightfly]

No personal experience on this either; but Brian (links in sharward's post) is an absolute ANIMAL when it comes to testing and building stuff - if he says it, I believe it because it's coming from something he's DONE. (Also, because I know firsthand that acoustics/vibration is rarely intuitive - ask the 3 engineers at my place of work who are still shaking their heads a year later because I fixed a vibration problem(while walking past their project) that they'd been working on all day with no success

Best I can offer... Steve