Sound isolation relies on separating the surface that is currently transmitting sound from the surface that is next to the space that you want to keep quiet. The logic behind that is that disrupting the path that the sound wave has to take to move from one point to another will be the most effective way of stopping the sound wave from being heard farther away. When you look for sound isolation equipment, you want it all to have some way of preventing the sound waves from traveling in an efficient manner.
Materials Must Be Sound Dampening, Not Sound Transferring
Whenever you choose parts for a sound isolation setup, always look at how sound dampening they are as opposed to sound transferring. A metal beam connected to a wall stud with metal bolts is going to transfer a lot of sound, but you need metal and wood in the building for stability. The solution is layering. Sound isolation techniques use things like floating walls that stagger wall studs and connectors and add thin foam pads to help break the chain of sound transmission. Foam makes it harder for sound to travel in cohesive waves; spaces between layers of the floating wall allow much of a sound wave to fizzle out before the wave hits additional dense layers. All that works together to stop sound wave transmission.
Foam Blocks and Strips Really Do Help
By the way, if you can't afford full isolation with all floating walls, floors, and ceilings, do what you can to add at least foam. When you walk into recording studios, those foam blocks and panels are there for good reason. When sound waves hit the foam, the air molecules forming the sound waves try to push the molecules in the foam into the same pattern so that the wave can continue traveling to the other side of the foam. But the spaces in the foam (the pockets of air) mess up the wave. The movement that formed the sound wave gets out of sync as some molecules move slower or faster than others as they encounter varying bits of foam or air. That tears up the sound wave. If you can choose only one piece of equipment to isolate a room sound-wise, foam blocks or panels are excellent choices.
Construction for sound isolation is a funny thing. You need the equipment to be strong enough to hold up walls and floors without fail, but the parts you use have to be soft and able to tear up sound waves. By layering materials and using a lot of options like foam, you can make sound waves fall apart before they transfer into another room.
Contact a company like Acousthetics to learn more.
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