Is it enought to lift the floor only in live room?I know its best to lift the whole floor but I dont know is it necessary (in my situation) becouse the noise will be only in live room.The rest is very well isolated from any external noise.So I would appreciate some advice.Thanks
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From what I've read, floating a floor properly is very expensive.
Done wrong and there's more trouble than any real benefit.
IMO, if you really don't think it's necessary, don't do it.
Done wrong and there's more trouble than any real benefit.
IMO, if you really don't think it's necessary, don't do it.
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Yep, a floating floor is designed to decouple a room from the rest of the facility. It usually consists of placing the entire construction on elastomer materials, and it works through the mass-spring-mass system of decoupling. It's hideously expensive and impractical for all but the most expensive of studio constructions and it has to be designed extremely carefully to avoid resonance and stuff like that. It can't be done effectively on the cheap.
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What exactly is the point in it though? And would someone like Andy Sneap or Colin Richardson have a floating floor?
the question was , do the whole floor or just live room ? becouse the noise source is in the live room? the point is to decouple the live room as much as possible
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Exactly, and in addition to being expensive, it's NOT EASY to do properly. You either need to do it yourself and know exactly what the fuck you're doing, or find someone to do it who really knows how to do it properly. Our school, for example, has floating floors and it's obvious the construction people had no idea what they were doing, and furthermore, why it had to be done.
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The point is isolation, as it decouples the room from the rest of the building. In pretty much all cases it isn't necessary. If you have A LOT of free time check out Paul Woodlock's studio build. That gives you an idea of how hard it is to achieve real proper isolation.
http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=107
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http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=107
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If you have to ask that question then there is no way in hell you should do a floating floor. If you're not gunna build it yourself then you'd better hire some professional studio builders and they'll tell you if its necessary.
Joe
I don't want to be rude,but I didn't ask is it expensive or hard to build or whatever,I asked is it ENOUGHT to just lift the live room, so it is decoupled .If NOBODY has a normal answer please don't respond.
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Well if you build the live room on a properly designed, calculated and constructed floating floor then it will be enough. Anything short of that won't work at all and will make things worse. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, I can understand why it might look like I am, but I'm just trying to stop you doing a botch job, because if you have to ask whether the isolation it will provide is good enough you won't have the experience and knowledge to make it work.
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OK, thank you , and I apologize if I offended you. One more question, why is the live room built on floating floor?
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To isolate it from the control room, so you can monitor in the control room and only hear what is being recorded, not a mixture of noise traveling through the structure and coming from the monitors.
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