Soundproofing Air Conditioning 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. I'd like to go over a few points about the air conditioning system that I've installed in this studio. First of all I've located the air conditioner on the roof, as far away from the studio as possible. In fact, it's darn near on the other side of the house. I say my house because my house is attached to the other side. It's over on the side of the house. The pipes come in, the ducts come in to the studio. The reason is self explanatory really, you want to keep that sound noise out of your studio. Another good point is to, budget permitting, if you can install an air conditioner that is much larger than the one that you'll really need. This is a thousand square feet and I have an air conditioner on the roof that can cool four thousand square feet. Reason being, it runs much less, it's way more efficient, and it's quieter because I had them install a three speed fan on it, so I can turn that fan way down low and the air just trickles in, you can hardly hear it. That way you can keep cool, and record at the same time. Okay I'm showing you the air conditioning vents inside the studio now. There's eight of them in this particular studio, and I just want to make a point that you don't need to put those air conditioning grates over them. It's better to leave those off, and in fact, they cost like thirty bucks each, you can save yourself some bucks there. But leave them off so that your air just comes drifting in nice and quietly, and is not obstructed by those grates they normally put on AC units. And what I did there was took some foil tape and went around the edge to make it look pretty. I don't know, I hope you think it looks pretty, to me it does."