Isolation / Vocal Room A (Back) and the frame of the Control Room (Front)

The interior walls and ceiling of the entire studio are/will be a minimum of 5 & 1/2 inches thick and heavily insulated with a minimum of 2 layers of 1/2 inch drywall on both sides of the studs.  These walls and the ceiling are separated by an air space that is at minimum 2 inches away from the exterior walls and ceiling, (which are about 6 & 1/2 inches thick and insulated as well).  The walls of the Isolation/Vocal room A are 8 inches thick, with 2 layers of 1/2 inch dry wall covered by 1 layer of 5/8 inch sound board covered by one final layer of 1/2 inch drywall on BOTH sides of the studs.  We also doubled the insulation!  When completely finished, the walls and ceiling of the Iso/Vocal room will also be covered with acoustic wedge shaped and egg crate foam ranging from 2-4 inches thick and the floor will have a nice, thick carpet and pad!  The floor of the Iso room is also heavily insulated and is floating about 3 & 1/2 inches over the concrete floor below.  The height when finished with carpet and pad will be about 8 inches above the concrete floor and 4 inches above the Control Room floor to allow artists in the room to see over the heads of the engineers in the Control Room and into the Live Room and Isolation Booth B.  The Control Room floor also floats, about 1/2 inch above the concrete, and when finished will be about 4 inches higher than the Live Room floor.  The floating floor design will result in less sound transmission and better isolation and the varying heights will allow better visual communication between all the artists and the engineers.  It's not easy or cheap to build this way, but the end result (we hope) will be to keep noise from the outside from getting in and keep the music on the inside from getting out!