Hi all,
I'm making a return to AVS after taking a few years off having built a home theater in my townhouse using lots of advice here. 5 years later I'm in a new home now with an unfinished basement and I'm just starting the planning for a new HT. I'm trying to understand the best way to minimize sound transmission from the HT to the rest of the house.
My room is 18' by 24'. What I have in my room is 3 walls are concrete block, the 4th wall will have a door (or two) and enter into an adjoining room. I'm planning to build a room within a room. So studded walls about 6-8" from concrete walls (that are blanket insulated). I'll fill the new stud wall with R13 insulation. The 4th wall will be an inner wall (the HT side) and then an outer wall for the adjoining room. Both insulated with R13 with about 6-8" between the walls, stud to stud.
Here's what I'm a little confused about. I'm planning to use RSIC L brackets for the inner HT walls. So stud up the walls and attach the wall top plate with the brackets to the floor joist above. I'm most concerned about sound traveling up to the main living area. Not so worried abut the adjoining room which will have a pool table.
Question: If I decouple the inner walls with the RSIC L brackets, can I just do two layers of drywall, with Green Glue, attached directly to HT inner walls? In other words, do I really need to use RSIC brackets with Hat channel on the walls? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt, but it would get expensive fast.
Assuming the walls are properly decoupled with the L brackets, for the ceiling I plan to use the RSIC brackets and channel to mount two layers of drywall, with GG, to the joists. I'll have R19 insulation in between the joists.
So the way I understand it, sound that travels into the HT walls will not travel as easily up into the joists because they are decoupled with the RSIC L brackets. Sound traveling through the ceiling are decoupled due to the RSIC brackets and channels.
Thoughts and advice are appreciated!
I'm making a return to AVS after taking a few years off having built a home theater in my townhouse using lots of advice here. 5 years later I'm in a new home now with an unfinished basement and I'm just starting the planning for a new HT. I'm trying to understand the best way to minimize sound transmission from the HT to the rest of the house.
My room is 18' by 24'. What I have in my room is 3 walls are concrete block, the 4th wall will have a door (or two) and enter into an adjoining room. I'm planning to build a room within a room. So studded walls about 6-8" from concrete walls (that are blanket insulated). I'll fill the new stud wall with R13 insulation. The 4th wall will be an inner wall (the HT side) and then an outer wall for the adjoining room. Both insulated with R13 with about 6-8" between the walls, stud to stud.
Here's what I'm a little confused about. I'm planning to use RSIC L brackets for the inner HT walls. So stud up the walls and attach the wall top plate with the brackets to the floor joist above. I'm most concerned about sound traveling up to the main living area. Not so worried abut the adjoining room which will have a pool table.
Question: If I decouple the inner walls with the RSIC L brackets, can I just do two layers of drywall, with Green Glue, attached directly to HT inner walls? In other words, do I really need to use RSIC brackets with Hat channel on the walls? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt, but it would get expensive fast.
Assuming the walls are properly decoupled with the L brackets, for the ceiling I plan to use the RSIC brackets and channel to mount two layers of drywall, with GG, to the joists. I'll have R19 insulation in between the joists.
So the way I understand it, sound that travels into the HT walls will not travel as easily up into the joists because they are decoupled with the RSIC L brackets. Sound traveling through the ceiling are decoupled due to the RSIC brackets and channels.
Thoughts and advice are appreciated!
