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Home Cinema Soundproofing

These days Cinema experiences have improved dramatically especially with new technological advancements in Videography, Audio, projection technology, 3D, Acoustics and soundproofing.With such developments in the Audio through speaker improvements, increasement of speaker array systems for more immersive surround sound then so has the over all loudness and power output as well as the throw of the sound wave emissions produced by the speakers within the cinema auditorium spaces.

Over the last 10 years we have seen a dramatic shift in the previous conservative status-quo formula and approach to cinema builds. Now Soundproofing has become the centre point and primary starting point in any cinema design concept.

It may seam something that to most people is straight forward but you would be very wrong to assume that is the case. In actual fact there are very wide scope of variables and inter changeable variables that determine what materials to use, what mechanisms, what systems and so on and so forth.

This all starts with what is the starting point building components that makes up the walls, ceiling and floor in the cinema space; you could say its like the blank canvas in a painting. Paintings can be created on Canvas, Paper, Parchment, Cloth, Stone and wood to name a few.Well a Cinema can be developed from a building made from bricks and cements, concrete blocks, cast concrete, cement blocks, hollow blocks and various other builds. They can be various thickness and these all have a part to play in how we start with the soundproofing.

In the primary starting stages, we can adopt the cladding method, room-in-room or the shell. They all have different pros and cons depending on the circumstanced of the cinema original build.
Typical for our lead Acoustic Consultant Mr N Nelson here @ Soundproofing & Acoustics we prefer to use the Shell Method, which is what we shall be focusing on in this page.

The Shell is how it seams to create a shell inside the space that uses soundproofing materials specifically for anti-vibration, low bass frequency dampening and general isolation that is installed directly to the concrete building structure. There are a variety of different products to select from our range to do just that and they can be combined together to give a greater wholesome result.

So that we don’t give all of our soundproofing secrets away we are not going to go into too much detail in the next stages so we will just touch on the next stage briefly; which is the isolation stage.

By Isolation we mean the materials that are the bulk of the materials to isolate the interior space of the Cinema to the outside world. This is typically the aspect of the work that causes the most problems for people as almost all contractors, consultants and specialist have the mindset that rockwool and gypsum board is all that is required to soundproof a cinema. If you were to follow these steps you will ultimately end up with failure of containment and noise transmission between cinema halls and other cinema halls as well as nearby areas outside the cinemas. So in cases where the Cinemas in Singapore are built with tenants below, above and beside this can be a massive problem in noise pollution if the build is done wrong.

we adopt depending on the soundproofing requirement a variety of different systems to ensure that your your cinema is soundproofed to perfection.

NoiseBlock Entry Level Flooring System 1

Designed as a stand alone system for installing in comblination to normal flooring systems to remove noise issues caused from the new additon of the flooring.

– 2 Layer System
– Suitable for laminated , Architectual Timber, carpet and Click-Fit Flooring Systems to isolate between surfraces.
– Entry Level sound reduction aproximatly 10dB(A)

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