Treating Floor in New Construction - Reducing Footfall and Vibration


Looking for some good ideas/solutions to treating my new dedicated music room's floor.  The room will be fairly large at 22w x 29L, built on the main floor of the new house with a basement below.  My current room is in my basement with concrete floors so footfall is never an issue.

I have asked the engineering firm to give me some recommendations on making the floor stronger structure wise; not sure what they will suggest, maybe floor joist on more narrow centers, say 12 inch vs 16.  

Have you tackled this issue?  What about mass loaded vinyl (MLV); would a layer of heavy vinyl between the OSB floor boards and carpet pad help?  Use two layers of OSB flooring and glue them together?  Ideas?

stickman451
Stickman - One thing that I know for sure will stiffen a floor is to use good quality ply wood, glued directly to the joists.

The houses in our development were built with that cheapo board made from large flakes of wood. 

When I upgraded my kitchen I put reinforcing beams in the basement because we were putting ceramic floors down and I wanted to prevent bouncing.cracking - it worked somewhat.

Then I helped my neighbour replace a high traffic section of his kitchen floor - we ripped up the old floor and replaced it with quality plywood glued directly to the joists

The difference was amazing - his floor is like concrete (i.e. by comparison)

Both houses have joists at 12" centres

Hope that helps
I am thinking floor joists on 12" centers are a idefinite requirement.   I am not sure what the building code requires but since the room is fairly large at 22' x 29', 12" centers would seem reasonable.

I don't care for the OSB subflooring myself, so I will discuss with my builder the possibillity of using good quality 3/4 plywood.  Gluing the subfloor sounds reasonable also.  
I followed a recomendation to create a floating sub-floor with a layer of roofing felt over the normal plywood floor, then with a layer of 3/4 plywood screwed into the flooring  (not the joists). I then used a quality pad with Berber carpet..

A person I knew had a giant listening room (30 X 30) over his garage.

This room has NO BASS! We speculated that the plywood flooring was soaking it up. I'd go with heavy ceramic tile flooring to keep the bass in the room.

Joists 16" on center is the industry standard.  Usually you will get 5/8 plywood on top.  1 inch tongue and groove plywood all glued and screwed will be as Williewonka said "concrete".  You shouldn't need more joists.  The plywood is a cheaper and easier option.