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The good news is you don't need to stop sound altogether in a large garden. You just need to attenuate it to the point it has very little energy once it has escaped through the walls. At this point you will find a serious reduction in amplitude every 4 metres or so until it becomes level with the ambient noise and not detectable. If you can position your studio 12 metres or so from your nearest neighbour what you want to do is possible.
I've done 2 garage conversions and built a 3200 square foot commercial studio from scratch all using the mass - air - mass principle. There's a lot of science to it but there's plenty of good info as well online.
No, but better than typical shed construction for the outer shell of the building in terms of heat and moisture.
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Take a look at resilient bars, they are cheap, easy to fit and provide excellent sound reduction. You could create a frame and install resilient bars internally both to the walls and ceiling and then clad with a finished material or soundboard or even plasterboard.
I have used them in my garden studio / office in conjunction with acoustic insulation and I'm very impressed with the results.
I went with resi bars every 400mm at 90 degrees to my rafters with 25mm mineral acoustic insulation between the bars.
With the studio door open voice level of sound is absorbed and is inaudable standing 4m away facing the open door and window. To the other elevations where there are no doors or windows you can more than double to volume before it becomes audible, even with the doors and windows open.
Edit - I fixed OSB to the resilient bars which avoids plastering.
Thoughts?