John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Another question:

Since I'm already going through all the bother of tearing down drywall, adding rockwool and hanging new drywall on RC, I figured it might be worth it to make my room a screen room (sheilded from EMI) while IO'm at it.

Right now about 60% of the room is down to the studs, and I'm closing up two windows, redoing the electrical, caulking, adding insulation, etc. I'm thinking that there is maybe some kind of copper mesh or screen I can get and staple to the studs beneath the RC. Then I just tie it to my electrical boxes. THe ground lug of course...

Is such a product available? And cheap?

Thanks!

Available - yes

Cheap - no

http://www.twpinc.com/twp/jsp/product.jsp?type=11

And a handy chart to help figure out how much you can't afford it

http://www.twpinc.com/twp/jsp/productTy ... copper.pdf

Still, if you're experiencing nasty amounts of RFI in good ol' smogville, might be necessary - try doing a google on galvanized steel screen RFI - harder to bond together, but it could be clamped at edges - then, bring a (clamped) galvanized wire out, mount to a terminal screw strip, continue from another terminal with copper wire to your building ground - should be a LOT cheaper tnan using all copper, not sure what loss in suppression would be.

You would need to get 100% coverage in extreme problem situation though... Steve