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Entertainment

The requirements for professional production studio construction are significant. Recording artists in these rooms can produce peaks of 110dB to 120 dBA, whith adjacent rooms ideally 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. Serious Materials 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 remodel 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

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 Serious Materials Soundproofing System materials for your project.

Case Study

Creo Productions gains valuable noise control using QuietRock 525.