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Airborne sound is blocked by adding mass to the walls floor and ceiling, dense material can be added to stop it moving through.
Vibrational energy is usually blocked by decoupling the source of the vibration from the room, this is usually achieved by building a 'room inside a room'. A smaller timber frame room is built inside the building and is isolated by using clips to connect it to the outer wall.
You need a lot of mass to do it properly and if you don't do it properly you might as well not bother.
Either get an electronic kit for him, and/or convince him to use low volume cymbals and mesh pads.
This is how I practice (a bit of both).
To do it properly you will need to float the floor, build a room within a room and install HVAC.
It will cost £20k minimum and will only get you a degree of soundproofing, you will still hear the bass drum outside the room.
I've done this myself (doing the work so the costs were down on £20k) and it was ok, but not perfect.
To go lower you will need more mass, which is more expense.
A friend of mine in Switzerland did it properly and he spent about £60k.
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@Jalapeno - I watched that very video about a month ago and it's excellent.
@Octatonic- The room would double/treble up as a rehearsal space/music den for me as well as for my son, plus my wife is a music/singing teacher and could occasionally make use of the room if showing off mic technique with a PA etc and so we're ready to throw decent (up to £20K) at it but not *stupid money after this as we know the room will get use from all of us.
It certainly wouldn't be a DIY project as I'm crap at that sort of thing. From what I understand, we need at least 50db damping but it is a worry when you say that even doing the things you mention, and they're already things we've taken as a given, it still wouldn't be ideal
My son already has a Roland Kit, which he's learnt on and been playing for 4 years, and he manages to play on an acoustic kit once a week at Rock School. However, he's getting up to a fine standard (Grade 5-6) and we need to get him an acoustic kit and so we're serious about it.
I've checked out a few links to sound-proofing companies and they give consultations and some have recommended contractors, but I just wondered if anyone in London, Surrey or around the M25 had used someone with a successful outcome.
Extra Rooms are very good but they don't use existing structures and build from scratch. They guarantee you won't hear a thing and have plenty of examples for you to visit but we're talking *£30-40K!
Floating room inside a room etc... with a full band at volume in the studio, from the outside it’s compleatly silent.
A stroke of luck. A local friend is a studio engineer, runs his own studio and venue and teaches the subject and has experience of this and contacts. He's coming round next week to take measurements and give advice as to what's possible and give me an idea of what it might cost - it's a start
It’s about 20m from the nearest house so I aren’t stressing about getting silence on the outside but as close as I can.
I’m going to lay a concrete base and build double walls with dense concrete blocks and insulation. Float a wooden floor and add More insulation and a double layer plasterboard inner wall.
My worries are more about windows and doors but hopefully having two layers of double glazed window and double doors will do the job.
Do you happen to have any links/contacts for the people who built it?
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
If it progresses and is financially viable, I'll keep people posted.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
http://www.myspacestudios.co.uk/pricing.htm
Pissed off and back to the drawing board and this was literally Eleventh Hour stuff