Looking for some advice. Might be moving to a place with a double garage that has an internal room made from stud and plaster board. So in effect there is already a base layer of sound proofing albeit only plaster board.

With respect to this would I need anything other than the standard acoustic egg box foam on top of this? If its suggested to use another material in addition to the foam, what should I use?

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Other people on here know a *lot* more about this side of things than I do, but that accoustic foam is for dampening internal reflections, rather than soundproofing.

Sounds like a tidy move though

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Yeah, been doing some net digging and see that the foam is not the way forward Bob. I guess I'm going to be looking at some sort of dampening/insulating board. I was hoping the foam would be the answer on account of the low cost!

Anymore for anymore?

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I presume there's a gap in between the internal room and external walls? The air pockets are a big help for soundproofing, but I seem to remember reading there's something you can use to fill the gaps to dampen sound too. Might be the kind of thing you'd have to take the internal walls down to install though.

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I've heard poss on this forum that the substance to fill those gaps is sand.

I am sure we've got a resident sound proofer on this site, I'd google for previous posts here re sound proofing mate..

I'd love to do our garage, but not just yet...

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you can use rockwool for bass trapping or soundproofing.

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Rockwool looks fairly inexpensive. The proper thick stuff is pretty pricey though. There is no real budget way of doing this and achieving great results by the looks of it.

I love the idea of filling the stud walls with sand. I know you get speaker stands full of the stuff but I imagine with my luck I would fill'em up only to discover there's loads of flaws in the walls and I end up with a beach themed studio!

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Is the stud freestanding or studded onto the other wall?

You can cut down a lot of wideband spillage by putting a second layer of plasterboard on internally (ideally with something like green glue if you can afford it. Put the plasterboard on at 90 degrees to the original layer to minimise concentric gaps. You'll still be buggered for the sub though. How to treat that depends on your stud arrangement.

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Mate, I recently moved house and gave away loads of dense rubber matting, carpet tiles and lumps of mdf. Wish I had known to send it your way, you might have had some use for it.

2nd hand carpet tile is potentially smelly but fairly massive, not bad for cheap mass if you can get a good deal on it from a scrappy.

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one way we did it was to stud out the internals to 10 inches, then compress shitloads of ceiling insulation (more than should fit) into the gaps and plasterboard over it, then carpeted over that. wasn't too budget but wasn't too costly either.

wasn't perfect but could have a 6 piece band going nuts in it and be sounded a bit like someone's transisitor radio outside.

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he would say build a room within the room without making acoustic bridges from the inner room to the outer room, including the ceiling. Fill any gaps with rock wool.

And it will probably cook in the summer so get an aircon unit in there.

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what's next to and above this internal room in the garage? surfaces that don't border on sufferers hopefully!

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