John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Bigger is pretty much always better but if it comes at an insane price/effort jump then I would build it smaller.

Greg

Gregwor wrote:Bigger is pretty much always better but if it comes at an insane price/effort jump then I would build it smaller.

Greg

Thanks Greg- Yeah, trying to maximize as much as a I can. I guess my big picture question is: Has anyone done construction where there is a double wall setup, but done the ceiling on Clips/Hat channel, as a modified room in room? This would allow for more real estate in the height of the room, and I can afford a few inches lost in length/width of the room, but would like to retain as much ceiling/wall height as possible. With the understanding that this is NOT my primary job, specifically recording drums, I can get by with situations like heavy rain that would ruin a session, but just waiting for the rain to stop, or even record on a different day.

So, to summarize, I would use my existing walls as my outer shell, build new framing for the interior wall, using Mass-Air-Mass. To secure the inner wall to the ceiling, I would use something like the Resilmount A48R, which is a angle mounted decoupling clip. The one part would screw into the existing joist, and the bottom part would secure to the wall. Inside the room, I would do traditional Clips with hat channel on the ceiling, and fill the joist with insulation, and potentially beef up the space between the joist prior to insulation, as long as it does not mess with the integrity of the roof.

Does this make ANY sense??

Going with the old saying referring to the "weakest link", your ceiling would be your weakest link and therefore it would be a waste of space and materials to do your walls fully decoupled. If you're going to clip + hat your ceiling, then do your walls that way as well.

Greg