Room Treatment - Idea...Thoughts?

I have to ask... what are you trying to accomplish?
 
MLV is a great tool for isolation or "sound proofing", but it doesn't do a lot for the behavior of sound in the room - well, nothing positive anyway.
 
(One thing some folks overlook is that if you build your space such that sound can neither ingress or egress that's great for keeping the neighbors happy, but it makes managing the energy in the space all that much more difficult!)
 
Absorption, diffusion, and reflection are the tools of choice for after the fact room treatment, and geometry and dimensions are the best bet if you can pull it off.
 
So, what is it you wish to do?

We still need to know what you're trying to do.
 
There are only 2 things you can do, realistically:
 
You can a) SOUNDPROOF your room so that no sound gets in, & no sound gets out
or b) you can TREAT your room acoustically so that you achieve better results from tracking/mixing
 
How many rooms are we talking about here? Will you have a separate room for tacking & mixing? Or like the majority of us, is your studio in a spare bedroom/garage/loft etc?

It sounds like your goal is isolation (the preferred term over "soundproofing"), and I can unequivocally guarantee that those 1" Auralex panels won't do squat for isolation. You're wise to step back and investigate before spending that kind of money.
 
To prevent sound from going where you don't want it, you need physical mass rather than any kind of foam or fiberglass product. MLV-type products do work, but only because they add mass. They're usually used in conjunction with other measures. And they're not cheap, either.
 
Are you trying to build an isolation booth for vocals or amplifiers, or to isolate a control room from the live room, or to keep sound from escaping your room, or to keep traffic noise and stuff out?
 
Can you modify the walls, or does this need to be a non-permanent installation?

OK, now we know what you are trying to do...
 
you are likely going to receive a variety of answers, most will probably be at least partly correct, and at least a little helpful...
 
I'll start with the obvious - hire an acoustician or studio designer who knows how to do what you wish, and has a few scars - I mean experience! In the long run that will be the best, and least expensive solution. There was a time when the folks at Auralex, and some of their competitors, did a darned good job with their recommendations. From what I've heard, that is no longer the case... which is a shame, but given the nature of the marketplace, probably not a huge surprise. They need to sell product to support the service.
 
If it were me - and I am making a LOT of assumptions here - I'd do the following:
1) I would do a sound study of some kind, even if it is only leaving a recorder in the room for 24 hours and then looking to see if noise is a problem and when noise is a problem, and if it is a problem what it looks like. At that point you can make an educated choice on whether or not to reinforce the walls to provide some level of isolation (keeping noise out and keeping noise in are pretty darned close to the same thing!)
 
2) I would try to demonstrate to you that tracking and mixing are two VERY different activities, and that tracking a guitar amplifier is way different than tracking a singer... and that expecting a room of roughly 110 sq ft to do both well will be challenging. I'd also probably try to convince you to focus on mixing, since it is likely you can find other spaces to record...
 
3) if I won that argument<G> we'd start by finding the optimum location for your ears and some generic set of monitor loudspeakers, or, if you already have monitors that you like we'd use them for the model... then we'd add whatever acoustical treatment is necessary to tame the room from the ideal listening position. The tools available to you are reflection, diffusion, and absorption. Only the last one of those will really help with low frequency problems, but with those dimensions your LF problems may be fairly easy to address.
 
4) Once we had a good monitoring environment then we could look into setting up environments for tracking different types of sources.
 
This is one person's approach - and remember what you paid for it... it's worth nothing more<G>!

audimute.