Floating floor in the control room vs. laminate floor

[dav]

Hello I am new to the forum. I think this is a great site and very valuable. Well I am building a studio in my garage. I am floating the floor in the recording room 14 x 14 and I don't know if I should float the floor in the control room or just put some laminate flooring over the cement slab. Is there going to be a huge difference in sound quality in the control room using a floating floor vs. Laminate flooring? The control room is 10 x 14. Any comments are welcomed.

[knightfly]

The main reason for floating floors is isolation - if done wrong, floating can make things WORSE instead of better. If you don't make loud noises (like mixing at 100 dB) in the CR, then it's usually not worth the expense/trouble to float the floor. If you can only afford to float ONE floor, it should be the room that will have the loudest sounds in it, or sometimes (recording Foley effects, for example) the room you need to be the QUIETEST should be first to float.

The downside of only floating one floor is that there will usually be a step up or down when moving from room to room - if you don't want this, you should either float ALL or NONE, since it's nearly as expensive to build a riser to match a floated floor as it is to just build another floated floor.

There is a lot of discussion on this topic, some of it recent; try a search on "sylomer", "EPDM", "drumhead", in addition to "float", which will return about 196 different threads - if you search on "float", the first 4-5 will probably be enough to give you good ideas... Steve

[dav]

Thanks for the information. I really appreciate it. Dav