Installing Sound Boards in a Recording Studio

Video Transcript

"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. Here we have attached our z channel, and now we've attached our first layer of soundboard. I say first layer, because you can do two, three, or four layers of this combination if you want to. But this is the first layer of soundboard attached to the z channel. I've attached, with screws, wherever there is not a stud. The idea is I don't want to go through the soundboard into the stud, I want to miss all those studs. If I go into the stud, the sound is going to be transmitted through the soundboard directly into the stud, and that's what we want to stay away from. We want to put all our screws in between the studs, here, here, and so forth, and that creates that springing motion that we really, really need especially for bass guitar, kick drum, and those really loud, low instruments. Low sounds go through the walls more than high sounds. If you've ever noticed, if you're in another room and you hear somebody talking on the other side of the wall, it will usually, it will usually sound like a muffled sound because that's the low sound of the person's voice getting through the wall, but the high sound, the "s's" don't get through. This is a piece of sound board that I've just broken up a little bit so you can see what it looks like inside. It's pretty much just a composite material made of sawdust and maybe some recycled newspaper in there, they just throw together a whole bunch of mixture of materials, and then they use a glue to meld it all together. You can get this in different thicknesses, I highly recommend getting the thickest that you can because, again, mass is what we're looking for. So if you can afford to do it, I believe this comes up to 3/4" thick, maybe even an inch. So, get the thickest that your budget allows for the soundboard."