John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

My stidio is in the basement, is here an good way to cutout noise from upstairs, my kids room is right above my studio. When I am downstairs I can usually hear my wife yelling at the kids

Do a search for basement ceiling. There is a fairly lengthy thread on how to isolate a basement ceiling, complete with instructions for how to measure the amount of reduction.

Bryan, I did that search and got 372 hits just on the construction forum - do you remember any more details on the thread you refered to? Because I'm drawing a blank here -

(newer) Brian - each situation is different, so we would need LOT more information here - if you've not read through the threads in the REFERENCE section, you will likely not even know what questions to ask. Sound will find ANY path it can to leak from one area to another, so things like hallways, door seals (or lack of them), common wall frames, lack of rugs upstairs, heating ducts, and a few dozen OTHER things, all can affect your sound isolation (or LACK of it) -

Will you please update your profile to include your location? We deal with members from around the world, and there are vast differences in material availability and cost as well as construction techniques - this just makes it more likely we'll offer valid choices.

If you can describe your house in a LOT more detail, we can approach this more scientifically... Steve

Steve this thread was one you worked on back in march I believe. A guy was trying to work out this very situation, and you recommended that he see what the current amount of TL was by playing a tone at a known db level and going above and metering.

Then you gave some recomendations for sealing his basement sealing and so forth, not sure of the conclusion of this thread.

Hello gents, Steve, might want to check Brien Michaels reply to the questions on his "furnace" thread. Flanking through ducts, or joist voids, or someother condition above the furnace, or through the enclosure if there is one. Anyway, it might tie into this somehow, seeing as he is blocking off the furnace with a new wall. At least the ceiling should be addressed with this wall, as the joists above the furnace may allow flanking above the wall, as well as to the floor above.
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