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Tree-lined suburban street in Nashville where Isolate builds recording rooms
Nashville · Residential Acoustic Construction

The neighborhooddisappearsthe momentyou close the door.

−62 dB
Average transmission loss
147
Rooms completed
0
Neighbor complaints
See What Your Room Could BecomeHow it works
Bungalow front porch on a quiet Nashville suburban street — the kind of home Isolate works inside
Outside — East Nashville
The First Layer

What the neighbors see: a bungalow porch.

Inside that same wall, we're packing two layers of 1-lb mass-loaded vinyl between staggered-stud drywall. The MLV adds surface density that stops low-frequency transmission the way nothing else can at this price point.

The gap between the stud rows breaks the structural path sound travels through framing. It's not one trick — it's three physics principles working at the same frequency range your furnace operates in.

MLV installation adds STC 12–18 points per layer when correctly lapped and sealed at every seam and penetration.

Impact Isolation

A concrete floor that touches nothing.

We pour a 2-inch concrete slab on a field of 40-durometer neoprene pads spaced on 16-inch centers. The slab floats free of the walls and the subfloor below — it has no rigid connection to the structure of the house.

Walk across it and the footfall doesn't travel. Drop a mic stand and the thud stops at the pad. The IIC rating we achieve in a typical bedroom conversion is 65 or better — commercial recording-studio territory.

Floating slab construction adds IIC 20–30 points over standard subfloor. Critical for drum rooms and any client working in a multi-story home.

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Close-up of floating concrete floor on neoprene isolation pads in a residential studio build
Inside — Floating Floor Detail

Every project starts with a conversation

What would your room
sound like silent?

We start with your floor plan, your budget, and the noise you're trying to kill. Three weeks later, the furnace kicks on and you don't hear it.

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Duplex on a residential street in Nashville — the exterior of a completed Isolate project
Outside — Germantown Duplex
Surface Treatment

The duplex on Garfield. The studio inside it.

The client needed to record acoustic guitar and vocal simultaneously without bleed — in the left unit of a 1940s duplex with a shared party wall. We treated the party wall with double-leaf construction and lined the recording face with 2-inch fabric-wrapped panels over a 4-inch air gap.

The panels absorb early reflections and the flutter echo that makes acoustic guitars sound like they were recorded in a bathroom. The air gap behind them catches the low-mid buildup that panels alone can't address.

Fabric-wrapped panels use 703 rigid fiberglass at 2 lb/ft³ density. Absorption coefficient 0.95 at 500 Hz, 1.0 at 1 kHz and above.

The Threshold

The door is where silence begins.

A standard hollow-core interior door has an STC of 20. We install double-leaf acoustic doors with automatic door bottoms and compression seals on all four jamb faces. STC 52. The difference is not subtle.

The garage in Sylvan Park was a weekend conversion. The client — a podcast producer who'd been fighting the sound of a leaf blower in every exterior shot — now records with the garage door open two feet and the microphone doesn't notice.

Our standard acoustic door assembly: 1¾-inch solid-core with neoprene perimeter seals and automatic drop seal. STC 48–54 depending on frame construction.

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Detached garage seen from the alley — converted into a professional recording space by Isolate
Outside — Sylvan Park Garage
Who We Build For

Real homes.
Professional results.

Every client we've worked with lives in a house on a regular street. None of them had a seven-figure budget. All of them have a room that works.

Singer-Songwriter

Converting a spare bedroom into a vocal booth where a whispered track stays whispered. No more HVAC bleed, no more street traffic in your 3 a.m. takes.

STC 58+ achieved in standard 10×12 bedroom

Podcast Producer

Done hearing the furnace kick on mid-sentence. We isolate your recording space from mechanical noise, neighbor TV, and passing traffic — permanently.

NC-25 or better in all completed podcast rooms

Small Label Owner

A tracking room that passes the A-weighted noise curve test, built inside a house you already own — without the seven-figure commercial buildout.

Full acoustic analysis report included with every project

147 rooms. 0 complaints.

Your room is next.
Close the door. Hear nothing.

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