This is a quick crash course in recording studio sound proofing, I will be discussing basic Recording Studio Sound Proofing on this page.

The reason recording studio need sound proofing is to prevent sound from: -

• Escaping from the live room to the control and vice versa
• Escaping from the recording studio to adjacent buildings
• Penetrating the recording studio from adjacent buildings, roads and railways

However before you dive head first into building massive sound proof concrete walls and lead lined walls for your recording studio. The first thing you need to do is find out what and were the weakest link is.

For instances, is the floor structure wooden? If so, there is only a certain amount of sound proofing you can invest in before you hit the fresh hold of the sound being transmitted through the wooden floor. At this point you either stop and accept the limitations or your budget increases so either include floating floors (although on a wooden floor again there are limits because of vibrations) or suspending the entire studio structure from steel beams, which as you can imagine, will take a large bit out of your construction budget.

Now this is not to say that having a wooden floor is the be all and end all of recording studio sound proofing, there are a number of little work around, some come with a price, some are relatively simple and effective.

But the main thing to realise is that if you are planning on building your recording studio on a wooden floor you are effectively trying to build on a drum skin, the vibrations will quiet happily travel through your recording studio floor under and along the floor joists and up into your live room.

Recording Studio Sound Proofing Isolation Basics

If you can physically break the path between two objects, and put enough distance between those two objects then you are basically isolating the two options from each other. Sounds simple, well it is! The same works with sound isolation, to prevent sound from travelling between two rooms you need to physically isolate the two rooms from each other, and the out side world from the control room or live room.

Now I am not saying that the control room or live room need to be suspended in mid air, although that would be great if possible. I am saying you need to prevent as much of the room you intend to isolate from physically touching the other.

The way you do this is by either resting the entire recording studio structure on rubber pads, spaced so that just enough rubber is used to prevent the rubber from squashing and from having too much rubber that you might as well be resting the structure directly on the floor.

There are loads of other processes that can be applied like double skinned double partition walls with zero contact between partitions. If you want to learn more, why not visit our main website at www.technicaladvice.co.uk there are loads of free resources available.

Recording Studio Sound Proofing Absorption Basics

In general although all sound frequencies travel through the air, low frequencies having more energy behind them are able to travel more effectively through and physical structures.

Low frequencies travel quiet happily through objects as long as the objects allow the low frequencies to be vibrate the object.

High frequencies don’t travel very well through objects as the energy behind them dissipates quickly; they travel more efficiently through air. But once they hit an object, there energy is absorbed.

So to capture and retain high frequencies you need to make the room air tight. And for low frequencies you need to have objects of mass that do not vibrate. It’s that simple!

Summary

Recording Studio Sound proofing is effective if you take into account isolation and absorption and make them work together, while still keeping in mind that before you even attempt to tachel recording studio sound proofing you need to determine the weakest areas and see how you can get either remove them or work around them. If you want to learn more, why not visit our main website at www.technicaladvice.co.uk there are loads of free resources available.