Toronto Recording Studio

There was a learning curve for this job as we had never sound proofed an area before, certainly not to professional standards. We did lots of research and worked out the proper ways to get this job done. The end results are incredible. You can be yelling at the top of your lungs and not hear it on the other side of a wall or even the other side of a door or the glass port through to the live sound stage. Very interesting job that led to our unique ability to take on jobs like this in the future with great comfort.

This space started as 4000 sq ft of empty space. We constructed a mixing room, live recording room, vocal booth, video stage, board room, reception area, workspace area, two private offices, a kitchen, and plenty of storage.

Before

Day one meetings were all about collaborating on figuring out the layout. The design was still up in the air at this point, but we narrowed in on it quickly.

Planning

Notice the angled walls. Due to the way sound reverberates in a square room, certain design feature needed to be in consideration to optimize sound quality.

Offset steel studs were used to help with sound insulation. 

The wall above is 14" thick and layers as follows: 1/2" drywall > GreenGlue rubberized noise reducing caulking > 5/8" fire grade drywall > furring channel > whisper clips > insulation > offset steel studs with sound dampening insulation > air gap and then that exact same line up the opposite way. The ceiling is also a drop ceiling that is insulated and has a special noise reducing air system. The floor, aside from being installed atop RUBBERIZED joist tape, is insulated and installed on rubberized pucks to cancel vibration. There is a double door system to get into the room that is tightly sealed with two heavy solid doors and sound baffled to decrease echo. The glass window in this room contains 2 separate wide spaced vacuum sealed units both at angle to decrease echo. There is quite a lot of layering and complexity to this build.

Sound baffling is another necessary component. I had a little fun in making a pattern on the rear wall instead of keeping a stale squared pattern. We called this a feature wall in the end.