Hi/

Can anyone give me some advice about soundproofing my music room ?

I only have a single brick wall between my (small) room and next door.

Thanks/

Varenda

Hi Varenda

Check out this link -

http://www.efoam.co.uk/acoustic.html

Alternatively you can build a stud wall, attached to your wall, about 6 inches in. You can then put sound insulating material on top of the stud wall on your side. You will have to get a builder or carpenter in to do this, I expect.

The foam tiles can be fitted by yourself if you feel confident enough to do it!

Hope this helps,

Helen

If you are not a professional engineer or architect that has studied the subject you have little chance of making a good job of it. There are many pitfalls for the amateur. You could end up wasting a ot of time and money if you try to do this without a lot of serious research. No one is going to explain the principles and describe the details of constructing an acoustically isolated space in the confines of a posting on this forum.

Here is how the professsionals do it:

http://www.acousticbooth-studiobox.com/

But they do not come cheap.

Soundproofing is one thing, but to merely reduce noise in a room, the easiest thing to do is put soft things in there! Even a throw hanging on the wall or some thick curtains or carpet would help. My singing teacher hung duvets from top to bottom of his walls and put fairy lights there. It was like a fairy grotto! Okay, it wasn't soundproof, but it prevented much of the sound escaping into other rooms in the house!

Another thing to note is that if you have lots of jutting out bits of wall (like a chimney breast), the sound will bounce around more (and therefore you'll hear more). So even putting say, a bookshelf in to make the room less angular will lessen the noise. In fact, having books in the room does absorb the sound as well.

I don't know whether this helps. It depends how far you want to go...

To do it properly you also need to do floor and ceiling otherwise things can just transfer across at top and bottom

Oh yes. True. I forgot, my singing teacher's fairy grotto had a duvet ceiling too, but just a thick carpet on the floor!