Soundproofing


I have an unfinished basement space, roughly 1000 sqft that I would like to convert to a TV and 2-channel listening room. The ceiling is open floor joists to to the first floor, any recommendations on soundproofing materials that I could use to rough finish between the joists. Floor/ceiling joists are 2x10's.

Thanks,
David
h2gastech

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h2 we have a lot of experience in this arena, we built a soundproof wall which was insanly effective 110db in room 85db outside of room and we bult the wall out of inexpensive materials.

The room and total project was featured on Rev Runs Rennovation 
season 2 Secret Cinema 

here is a grainy non hd copy of the programhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqrxRo0vmf4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/58319891@N08/albums/72157650239108910

https://www.flickr.com/photos/58319891@N08/albums/72157650233548529

We are trained theater designers please let us know if we can guide you in any way.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ


Actually Folk freak we got that sound leakage down heroically using layers of inexpensive materials done in a constrained layer damping system over the regular sheet rock, if we would have been able to build the wall out more we could have knocked it down very much more.

There is a huge difference between designing from scratch and retrofitting. Also the DIY Network is really cheap so our solution had to be as inexpensive as possible. 

We used cemment board, sheet rock, cemment board sandwich with green glue between all layers then we used a custom made absorbing diffusing panle the room sounded and looked great. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ