@road-runner, where do you live if you don't mind my asking?
This is all happening in Poprad, Slovakia.
roadrunner, I was wondering if your floor is suspended as well or is it so much a solid piece of concrete that it is irrelevant to the noise?
No, Chris, it is not a suspended floor. It was deemed not necessary as the floor is on the concrete foundation which is naturally acoustically dampened.
I'm curious, RR.
As a semi-pro musician I previously rented a space (after neighbours complained when I worked at home) but that room had its limitations and so the opportunity to buy a room on the ground floor of our building at a price we could just afford was too good to pass by.
Regarding my doing more than pro studios do, every studio needs to ask two questions:
1, How much noise gets into or out of our studio that we need to stop?
The answer in decibels leads us to how much soundproofing we need to do.
2, How correct would I like the sound to be in the control room, the room where the engineer mixes the recordings?
If you don't do enough then your mixes can sound poor when played elsewhere. You can go to extremes, and the massive budget you hinted at could well exceed £1 million.
My studio is only a control room, no live room, and we are on course to spend about 30,000 euros (c£26,000) to convert it from the office it was into a studio, and then all I plan to do is buy a pair of good monitors, somewhere around 5,000 euros (c£4,000) There are no itinerant friends involved, just me, my wife, and a few tradesmen we employ as and when we need. I am now in my 60s and I see this as an investment to see me through until my dying day.
If you want to know more about me, see my old YACF topic
The next chapter of life. If you want to see more details about my studio, see the build topic
Private studio in Slovakia.Tim, does that answer your questions to your satisfaction?