Tips for Sound Isolation in a Home Recording Studio

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Part of the video series: How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio

Summary: Learn how to isolate sound in your home recording studio in this free online music production video clip.

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By Tad Donley
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Tad Donley is a 25-year veteran producer, writer, singer, musician and music video creator who owns the popular Pro Sound And Video Recording Studio in Houston, TX.read more

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evuser18101 said

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on 6/15/2009 Dropped ceiling. hahaha looks like it's gonna drop anytime!
Next to an audio engineer, he's also an outstanding acoustician. (standing out-side reality)
My favourite clown.

on 8/2/2008 Carpet is worthless. As anyone who knows acoustic design will tell you, the biggest issue you will have in a room is bass and you will need to use bass traps to control it. That becomes a game of mass. Things like mineral wool or rigid fiberglass based traps are the studio standard the world over. This carpet nonsense might help knock down some high end flutter echos, but will still leave your room quite live. Additionally, what does that have to do with Isolation? That is a sound treatment issue. Isolation is going to involve the use of gobos, separate rooms, vocals booths, etc. He really is trying to speak to sound treatment, not isolation and yet again he is so far off base it isn't even worth listening to him... nor is it worth my time to really comment.

audioforge said

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on 4/23/2009 Specifically, carpet is a huge fire hazard when installed vertically. It's designed to be installed on the floor and is NOT fire rated for vertical installation. Very unsafe my friend.

audioforge said

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on 4/23/2009 Careful Bro...Carpet is a HUGE fire hazard...Goes up in seconds!!! Not cool.

audioforge said

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on 4/23/2009 Careful Bro...Carpet is a HUGE fire hazard...Goes up in seconds!!! Not cool.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Tad Donley and I’m speaking in behalf of Expert Village. I’m giving you tips on how to make your own recording studio. Where you have got to set up a studio, where you have got to put it. I am fortunate enough to where I went ahead and got this warehouse, 2000 sq. feet. I made it into a living area. I made it into a recording studio. I put this all up myself my own hands, almost broke my elbow, getting this one point, right here up. This was the hardest of them all right here, the drop ceiling and the whole thing… I mean it’s insulated, you can still hear a music here, you can hear a sound, it is not so dead at all compared to some places that you have gone in there and you have seen carpet on the wall and all the while you cannot even hear yourself, it is so dead, it is not like that here, it is in fact it is perfect, with the ceiling top really works out great, it helps to reflect just a little bit, what are the materials for isolating sound, that is what we are talking about and here it is, it is… I like carpet, you can use the foam stuff. The foam stuff is good but it is expensive and it will cost you a lot of bucks and if you do not have a lot of bucks use some carpet, padding, carpet… why not?"