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Keeping rooms isolated that have wire runs between them
01/10/2000

"I have just read through your Acoustics Summit (very helpful!). I am on the verge of renovating a basement area for recording. The open basement space will be turned into a control room and two studio rooms. While I have a fair idea of the type of construction I need for properly isolated walls, doors and windows, one thing that I am less sure on is the best way to pass wiring through a wall (staggered stud wall with insulation) in such a way as to not compromise the wall's isolating properties."

The two main things you can do is to make sure the entry points for the wire are not opposite each other on the two walls, and seal off the area around the wire. You just want to make sure that air can't transfer between the entry points. Making the entry points different is a matter of bringing the wire into the wall from one room, and then running it laterally through at least one of the wall studs before having it exit in the next room. The wall stud and wall insulation will help a lot in preventing acoustic transfer. You can seal the wires at either end with a variety of caulks or silicone based sealants.





Other Techtips from January 2000:
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January 28 - Live miking and mixing with multiple microphones
January 27 - Fundamentals of Noise Reduction
January 26 - Kurzweil Output Architecture
January 25 - Mixing virtual tracks into a MOTU 2408
January 24 - Running wires through sound proof walls
January 21 - Miking an upright piano
January 20 - More on hard drive head crashes
January 19 - Reversing pins 2 & 3 in an XLR cable, what does it do to Phantom power?
January 18 - Pin 2 versus Pin 3 at mic inputs
January 17 - Where have the analog mixers gone?
January 14 - How does increasing amp power affect SPL?
January 13 - The one exception on TRS wiring
January 12 - Get line level signals into a mixer without line inputs
January 11 - Magnetic Fields from unshielded monitors and your cassette deck
January 10 - Keeping rooms isolated that have wire runs between them
January 07 - More on cable wiring - balanced to unbalanced
January 06 - More on wiring unbalanced and balanced connections
January 05 - Wiring XLR to TRS connectors and reversing polarity for pin 3 hot
January 04 - More info on cable polarity and how to wire for various circumstances
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