hey all, just moved into my first apartment. does anyone have any ideas on how to set up my dj/sound equipment so that it doesnt piss off my neighbors?

any tips would be appreciated!

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sneak into their apartments at night and jab a screwdriver in their ears so they all go deaf.



then you can crank it up loud all the time.

or use egg crates on the wall, sound proofing foam (not the correct name), or I have even seen large blankets hung around in a circle around the speakers.

No way to soundproof a room without lots of mass, like concrete blocks. This is the only way to stop bass from traveling. Foam, blankets, egg crates do nothing except dampen the highs inside the room by absorbing the reflections, which your neighbors hardly hear anyways.

Just blast it and get evicted like I commonly do.

you cant call yourself a dj inless youve been kicked out of your apartmen twice

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thats one thing that sux about being a DJ..the neighbors don't like it very much, iv'e gotten into fights with just about every person that ever lived next to me, had the cops called a bunch of times, been kicked out, this one guy that used to live below me would go into the basement and pull the power out on me, then another guy pissed me off so bad that i took a hammer and started smashing it into the floor over and over again, when he threatend to call the landlord and have me evicted i warned him he would go through hell until i was evicted...he never said a word! luckily the landlord i have now is really cool, and the guy who lives below me doesn't give a shit how loud i play.

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hope you don't take Boomer187's post as a valid advice. suppose your apartment is rented, you possibly can't do surgery on your walls and floors and ceilings, but even if you have the right (and coins) to do so, there's no way you can crank up the volume to 110db. we're talking about an apartment, please be realistic.

the easiest thing you can do is to fill the gaps of your doors and windows, with either spray-on foam or towels. don't think about filling your flimsy doors with sand, that may break the door hinges or frame before it's filled to the top plasterboards will help your walls, but it takes two layers to have noticeable results. they'll work even better if you leave gaps between the boards and your existing walls, and fill them up with rockwool. to cut down the noise to your downstairs neighbours, put a layer of thick underfelt underneath your carpet. all these will help reduce your noise by a fair bit, but bass is pretty difficult to tame, so at night you'll have to put up with cutting down the bass on your mixer. soundproofing is an academic subject by itself, but i really can't write much here. email me if you want to know more, i'd like to help.

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Originally posted by fieroavian hope you don't take Boomer187's post as a valid advice.

the old screwdriver in the ear advice is valid...hehe.



there are ways of doing it without ruining the walls. Its really not worth it at all though.


I just crank up the tunes through my headphones...then no one hears it.

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Originally posted by skytrancegirl thats one thing that sux about being a DJ..the neighbors don't like it very much, iv'e gotten into fights with just about every person that ever lived next to me, had the cops called a bunch of times, been kicked out, this one guy that used to live below me would go into the basement and pull the power out on me, then another guy pissed me off so bad that i took a hammer and started smashing it into the floor over and over again, when he threatend to call the landlord and have me evicted i warned him he would go through hell until i was evicted...he never said a word! luckily the landlord i have now is really cool, and the guy who lives below me doesn't give a shit how loud i play.

how would you feel if you were in their shoes, and it wasnt trance, but death metal or something or other...

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Originally posted by sash how would you feel if you were in their shoes, and it wasnt trance, but death metal or something or other...

I wish my neighbors would play death metal. That stuff rules, Maybe I could borrow their cds.

How to soundproof your room: Use headphones..

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Don't take me too seriously.

Living in residential hall at uni, yeah I have that problem too.

Kinda have to crank it up in my ears really loud

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Originally posted by sash how would you feel if you were in their shoes, and it wasnt trance, but death metal or something or other...

my downstairs neighbor now listens to that stuff, and he blasts it all the time, and it doesn't bother me in the least, id much rather live by someone who parties, as long as they don't mind when i do!

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