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How loud is your music when you are practicing at home?
I ust got a noise complaint for having my music too loud, but then again i do live in an apartment complex where the walls are paper thin, but how loud do you guys have the music while you guys are practicing just to yourselves at home?
i have lived in several diff apartments and they all seem to depend on who lives next to you or above or below you. i even lived in a townhouse with a basement and had the stuff down there. everyone knows that once you get going sometimes you get carried away and all of the sudden your crankin the trim. it is different for everyone and if it goes to the landlord we will surely be on the short end because everybody wants a quite place. bummer on the news bro. i would just ask who ever lives by you what they think is acceptable or tell them to eat a dick.
One of the only things i love about living at home is the set up i have here allows me to blast my music. I have a garage beside my house, it's has to levels to it. Upstairs is where i play my tunes. I've posted pictures of it on here a few times.
Love that garage to bits as it literally lets me play at any time i want at pretty much whatever noise level i want (Within reason obviously).
I use a JBL Eon 10" And it does me perfectly.
I'm dreading moving out as i'm quite self conscious. I'd hate it if someone else was blasting music non stop so i'd always have my tunes pretty low if i lived in an apartment block.
my room and house location allows me to spin loud if i chose, but usually i don't go very loud as the room is small and the bass just goes all over.
i'm in the process of getting my buddy to help me with basstraps and all that acoustic stuff for my room.
i use headphones, or play everything through a stereo
I play it just loud enough that it doesn't bother my housemates... and to be honest, they can handle quite abit and not complain or say a word
I play my music pretty loud, although I live in an apartment. I know they're hating me next door, because I play music constantly from mixing to making music to listening to mixes I downloaded from TA forum.. keke 
Luckily they never complain about it.
It's kinda hard to say how loud I play music, but I try to keep the volume as loud as possible without annoying anyone. I have never gotten any complaints and I'm quite happy with that 
Then around 9 to 10 pm I start switching to headphones only though.
I once played music very loud for hours but I had a birthday party and we had informed every neighbour already, so there really wasn't any problems with that.
75-80 db
Im right about the same as Hand. My wife and baby dont care when I spin. My neighbor to the East is a hoebag. She honestly might be racist. Nevertheless, when I do spin around 11pm and on, I do keep it down. My other neighbors dont hear or complain about anything.
For reference, I have a Pioneer 707 mixer and KRK 8s. Mixer is half way on main out, KRKs are at +3db gain, -1 tweeter. They are wired via balanced XLR. Monitors are angled up towards me. Behind me is a solid wall. Seems there is easily a 2~3db cabin gain right behind me. Can really hear the mid to lows indepth.
This is my house with almost 1/3 arce (entire lot) So we are not next to each other. Back at the apmt (when I first got the eq 3-4 years ago) neighbors HATED me. That was before the KRKs. I was using a Technics 150w amp to a set of JBL Studio Towers (12" ported, 5", tweet). Had to deal with cops on numerous occasions. Finally moved out of there and never looked back.
Some advice: Make truce with your neighbors now. It will make things easier down the road.
LOL! I don't know the actual DB's, but all the doors in my house are shaking.
It's really load, because thats the way i like it! 
I really want to feel the music!
I'm really glad i have a house that stands apart from the neighbours! 
Till now they have never complained!
And then you need to know that i work in a restaurant and always play in the middle of the night! 
Either soft enough that it barely escapes the room or straight into the headphones.
The only time I "let her rip" is during the week when Myra and both the girls who live upstairs are gone.
I normally just mix in my headphones at home, don't even turn my monitors on... comes from living next door to someone with chronic fatigue syndrome who gets migraines all of the time - although I don't anymore, I just got used to mixing in the headphones at home so still do it.
Yeah, I started mixing in the headphones only. The neighbor just had a baby so I thought I'd be nice.
I try to have things as low as possibe beacuse my home stereo fell though my now broken window the last time i cranked it up with the bass, it also helped me with headphone to monitor cueing beacuse i really had to listen to what was going on, and you figure out what to listen for really quick when you strain your brain since the music is so low. but when everyone is out of the house i will crank it up just a bit more, I dont think its cool that people turn things up just beacuse the bass is making your crotch vibrate, less is more IMO
I was banging it about 5 minutes ago... but i live in a town house so the walls dont let too much noise through, and everyone is at work. People usually get off at 5, so usually at 5:30 i turn it off.
(I just ran out of time on one track so i was like fuck it and turned it off... Come into my kitchen = 4 minutes.... too short when the mix was about 1:30 seconds long. not enough time to look for another track and mix it in 
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| Originally posted by nchs09 (I just ran out of time on one track so i was like fuck it and turned it off... Come into my kitchen = 4 minutes.... too short when the mix was about 1:30 seconds long. not enough time to look for another track and mix it in ) |
fairly low volume when i'm messing around or my housemate and i are going 2 for 2. When we have a party though i get drunk and crank my shit up. Last big night (was a saturday) we had here we received one noise complaint at 11:30PM which we really didn't take seriously. The next noise complaint was at 3:30AM at which point i told the onsite manager he is like a brother to me while i put our garage door down
It's a 7 unit complex designed for students which most of the people here are. What the fuck is the go where the 9-5 mon-fri workers party harder than the students, isn't that what being a student is all about?
Funny thing is all we use are Logitech Z-2300's in the loungeroom or Z-680's upstairs in my bedroom. I've been looking at $2-3K worth of Powered PA gear lately... imagine what they will have to say about that?
As loud as I damn well please. 
I used to have it as loud as possible to simulate a club environment. Now I don't practice anymore, so I listen to music at a reasonable level, which is still fucking LOUD.
haha, i go so loud my windows shake, afraid they will shatter soon..
i live in a house and my neighbors don't seem to care.
but when im not in a blasting mood i have a shitty stageworks speaker i use as a monitor when i mix.
I usually have it thumping pretty loud.
It's a two story house and my DJ gear is upstairs but I only play it really loud when nobody is home.
What I did as soon as I setup my gear is turn the volume up loud, walk outside and to see how loud it was because I didn't want the neighbors complaining, surprising all you can hear is some bass from outside which isn't much at all.
So to answer it when I'm mixing I have it pretty loud, I can't mix with it on low volume, well I can but just don't get into it as much
Sometimes I notch it up to max volume here and play with hearing protection plugged in my ears. Just get get the feeling of playing in the club and getting used to my filters 
My closest neighbors live like 100Meters away, and the other ones at least 300Meters. I live in the middle of nowhere. I love it when it comes to playing music out loud.
I turn the dial up to 11
at my apartment i can only play out of my headphones because whenever I turn up my monitors I get complaints from the neighbors. All my mixes I have ever recorded have been through my headphones only, no monitors.
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