Building the Interior of a Recording Studio

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On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Gregg Tauriello. I'm from Sweet 16 Studio, and I'm here to talk to you about soundproofing for a recording studio. Okay, this is an interior wall that I designed between two adjacent rooms that are used for musicians, to see each other, and to be separate in sound. So what I've used here is a 2x6 constructed wall, and the 2x6 has z channel on both sides, soundboard on both sides, and drywall on both sides, so it's a really super thick wall. In addition to that, when I'm putting windows in between rooms in my studio, I want to angle the windows slightly so that the sound doesn't bounce straight back into the room when it hits the glass, because glass is really bad for acoustics. But I'm a firm believer that it's better to see somebody in the other room, loud and clear, than it is to go without windows, or very small windows, and have people trying to see each other. I'm really interested in the communication between the musicians. It's very important in capturing the proper creative moment, and that's what we do as recording engineers, we capture the creativity that's going on. So a visual is important, but when you're going to put big windows in like this, angle them. Reason being, all sound travels in a straight direction. Let's say this is my sound. If this window was straight, and not angled, the sound would hit it and go back and bounce on the opposite wall, and then come back again and create real problems in the sound and in the recording process. Since this window is angled, when my sound hits it, it actually bounces the sound upwards on an angle and hits the ceiling where I have lots of egg crate up there to absorb it. It's kind of like if you took a pool ball on a pool table, and threw it up into a corner, you would see where it goes zigzags all around the pool table. If you throw that ball straight across, it's just going to bump off the other side, and bump straight back to you. That's what you want to avoid when building your studio. Create as many angles as possible. In fact, some of my walls are even angled so that the whole room is not square, that's ultimately what you want in your studio.

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