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In the recording studio business, the goal is to create a near-perfect environments. The economic and reputation cost of blowing a recording session for technical reasons can drive a studio out of business. One of the cardinal rules of recording studios: make them sound great.
The requirements for professional production studio construction are significant. Recording artists in these rooms can produce peaks of 110dB to 120 dBA, which adjacent rooms ideally should be dead quiet. Moreover, outside noises, from the control room, street, hallway etc. can damage hours of hard work. These requirements exceed what standard construction techniques can deliver, and require new technologies to satisfy critical customers.
Achieving high STC ratings for walls and ceilings has been a costly enterprise. Quiet Solution offers entertainment construction professionals a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof walls and ceilings to meet the demands of world-class production and recording studios. The installation can be easily done either at time of new construction or as a rehab project.
Production facility designers occasionally specify resilient channels, hats and clips to try to achieve high STCs. These techniques are famous for failing. Acoustical engineers estimate failure rates of 50% during installation, and a financially dangerous 90% within three years due to “improvements”. A simple installation of a shelf or other wall attachment can destroy a resilient channel installation
(see White Paper).
The most effective way to mitigate noise in entertainment facilities is to (i) identify and measure the noise source, both internal and external; (ii) set a dB goal for the desired level of quiet, and translate that goal into the appropriate Sound Transmission Class using the formula “dB in noisy area minus dB desired in quiet area = required STC”; (iii) select and specify the appropriate Quiet Solution Soundproofing System materials for your project.
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