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Sound Proofing

  • 04-04-2009 6:48pm
    #1
    raindog.promo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks, quick question....

    I need to soundproof an office, do you know where the best place to get acoustic tiles would be and will they look ok on the walls?

    I've checked thomann and musicstore and it's quite pricey. I know it's pricey in general, but any other places I can check for a good price?

    Appreciate any answers.


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  • #2
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    raindog.promo wrote: »
    Hey folks, quick question....

    I need to soundproof an office, do you know where the best place to get acoustic tiles would be and will they look ok on the walls?

    I've checked thomann and musicstore and it's quite pricey. I know it's pricey in general, but any other places I can check for a good price?

    Appreciate any answers.

    Are you talking about sound proofing or acoustic treatment of the room itself. Ceiling and wall tiles won't be much use for soundproofing. You need to look at the door seals, and what the walls, ceiling and floor itself is made from before even thinking about buying anything.

    Treating the room acoustically can be done using off the shelf products, soundproofing is more concerned with the structure of the building.

    Here's a link to a recording studio construction forum check it out I think you'll see what I mean.

    http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3231


  • #3
    shayleon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭shayleon


    ATIL in Dublin.
    cheers.


  • #4
    madtheory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭madtheory


    shayleon wrote: »
    ATIL in Dublin.
    cheers.
    Yes, but acoustic tiles will not give any soundproofing. They are meant to reduce reflections inside the room, to improve intelligibility of speech and/ or music.

    As studiorat said, soundproofing needs a lot of mass, so it's expensive.

    That doesn't stop some companies from selling tiles as soundproofing, and letting the placebo effect do the rest. Not saying ATIL will do that of course.


  • #5
    shayleon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭shayleon


    ATIL has high density rockwool and acoustic plasterboard which are the materials I was thinking about (and failed to mention in my original post)
    cheers.
    Shay.


  • #6
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Company called Intergrated Acoustic Solutions limited have a product at the moment, I forget what it's called. But it's like a liquid rock-wool affair that they pump into cavities between walls ceilings etc. It's meant to work really well and be pretty cost effective. It will find it's way into all the gaps which is a bonus over rock wool, installing it anyway, it's more dense too I believe.


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  • #7
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    shayleon wrote: »
    ATIL has high density rockwool and acoustic plasterboard which are the materials I was thinking about (and failed to mention in my original post)
    cheers.
    Shay.

    The first step is always establish what the problem is.

    There's no use filling a wall with anything if the problem is noise traveling through the structure.

    What do you hope to isolate the space for?


  • #8
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    PaulBrewer wrote: »
    The first step is always establish what the problem is.

    Oops! That's the most important thing...


  • #9
    madtheory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭madtheory


    PaulBrewer wrote: »
    There's no use filling a wall with anything if the problem is noise traveling through the structure.
    Agreed. Rockwool is not a soundproofing solution, it's for reducing room reflections. There are several ways to build walls to get good isolation, and none of the genuinely effective ones include rockwool in their construction. Check out F Alton Everest's books.


  • #10
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭artvandulet


    studiorat wrote: »
    Company called Intergrated Acoustic Solutions limited have a product at the moment, I forget what it's called. But it's like a liquid rock-wool affair that they pump into cavities between walls ceilings etc. It's meant to work really well and be pretty cost effective. It will find it's way into all the gaps which is a bonus over rock wool, installing it anyway, it's more dense too I believe.

    Would you be talking about 'Green Glue'? Still damn expensive.
    Anyone use MLV? Expensive too though.:D


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