How to Insulate a Recording Studio

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Gregg Tauriello. I'm from Suite 16 Studio, and I'm here to talk to you about soundproofing for a recording studio. Okay, I'm going to show you the inside of a standard wall. This is 2x4 constructions; this is a little demonstration here that we have for you. Most buildings are made with 2x4 constructions, which is perfectly fine for a recording studio if you're not a super professional, multi-million dollar studio, this is just fine. And we have standard R-11 in this wall, which is really not very sound stopping; in fact the insulation doesn't stop hardly any sound at all. I don't care if you've got insulation that's three feet thick, it's mass, again it's mass, weight, is what stops the sound. But we're going to work with what we have here, and what we have is a 2x4 construction. On the inside of your wall, if you're converting a garage, let's say, you have bear beams just showing. Let's go from there. We can put insulation in to, of course, help your heating bills and your cooling costs down. Let's put R-38 in there, that's the biggest, best you can get. If you've got a little bit more money what I did here was I did blown-in insulation. They come in with guns, and they just shoot that insulation right in between the beams and then they cut it off. It's like throwing cottage cheese in between the beams. It's really nice because it really seals a lot of the cracks, and gets up in between the boards, and that really helps too. So, that's what I started with, but you can use standard fiberglass insulation, that's just fine, just use the R-38 if possible."