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Home mixing without agitated neighbours?
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| Kixx |
Hey
I just joined this forum and I was hoping someone could help me with one thing right in the beginning.
I have a gorgeus home studio in my living room, with to MK5's and a DJM600 mixer all plugged into a great pioneer amp and four speakers. well, now my neighbour is pissed off:whip: !
I will not stop playing music and he will not stop bugging me. He's so stupid that he has his bedroom under my livingroom He's the chairman of our house board of dierctors so he's threatened to kick me out although I own the flat.
So now guys help me out! How can I make my flat as soundproof as possible without having to soundproof the walls, floor and ceiling with thinck boards? Is there any good tricks you know? My spekaers are currently situated on a shelf, fixed to two walls and one is standing on a table. I know it sopunds a bit messy but it works, and the great thing is I have cables to them going under the floor.
But to make this problem even more challenging for you to solve:
None of my speakers are directly on the floor, the only one you could call being on the floor is one of the speaker that is fixed/standing on this shelfthing, it's like a lower wall standing out from the rest of the place that creates like a shelf close to the roof, it used to be a fireplace I think..
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I HAVENT EVEN LINKED MY SUBWOOFER TO THE SYSTEM YET!
My speakers are really small, I have two JBL control 1 spekaers that aren't bad for home mxing and two old pioneer bookshelf speakers so to say..
I messed up the problem even more didn't I?
So please please please, *puppyeyes*, help me guys, I really really really don't want to destory my homestudio :nervous: |
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| DannyO |
Well there are afew things you could do, the simplest being having your music turned right down, but you don't wanna do that, if these speakers you are using are floorstanders, this is your main problem as since they are on the floor, the vibrations travel threw the floor alot easier, your best bet is to have them raised off the ground somewhat, but this is probably not something you want to do either, or you could buy some nice monitors and have them on some stands, the stands will dramatically reduce the vibrations threw the floor, but this means spending alot of money, and not using your current sound setup.
Theres not much as far as I know for soundproofing the floor, like I said before, the best bet is to have as little contact between the speakers and the floor to reduce vibrations.
My final peice of advice, which I have personal experience with, is when you have someone complaining about the music, you turn it up or add more speakers to the mix, I suggest a nice big ass bass bin, something like this 60 inch woofer below..
then you can show that ****** what is really LOUD music.
Thats the way I have dealt with people when I think there complaining for music that really isn't very loud, it has been effective and fun. |
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| J:\Digital |
| ^^^ Amen!!! :disbelief |
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| Stu Cox |
lol @ Danny's reply :)
I used to have a neighbour who used to get really bad migraines a lot... she was very polite about it, never complained about the music as such but the kind thing to do was obviously to keep noise to a minimum.
I just learnt to always mix entirely in the headphones and just left my monitors turned off nearly all of the time when having a mix. It's a good skill to have (it improves your ability to differentiate between tracks and means you can get by fine if you have a gig on a setup with e monitors or weird acoustics) and it means that you don't piss your housemates/neighbours off.
Even though I don't live next to her anymore, I still always just mix in the headphones and don't even turn my monitors on when I'm just having a practice mix, recording a demo etc. Means I can have a mix at 3 o'clock in the morning and my housemates don't even know, let alone get pissed off with the noise, it's just a bit fairer to them :)
Obviously when a mate comes round we crank it up a bit :D |
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| sleepydragon |
why do you need your music turned up loud if your only playing to yourself? stop being selfish and turn it down problem solved.
Also why did you buy loud speakers you must of known before you bought them that you couldnt have them up loud. |
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| Kixx |
| to sleepydragon: Yeah I knew that, but both you and I know that trance is not meant to be played at low volumes. Now I'm playing it at around 35 decibel, which is lower than human normal talk.. My speakers aren't that huge :) But yeah, I get your point, but you get mine too I hope :) and my problem remains, coz I won't turn the music down to minimum minimum.. |
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| Zild |
| There is no way you're getting complaints if you're playing your music at 35db. No way in hell. The sensitivity of those speakers is probably over 100db @ 1watt/1meter. Add the fact that you have more that one watt and you're well above 100db. |
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| Kixx |
| Hm okay, well thats what my neighbour said, coz in finland the rules of the houses is that you cannot play music louder than 55 db, measured from the other apartment, meaning my neighbours apartment, and he said the sound was about 60, so I lowered it, and now it travels through the walls to his apartment, and he says he can hear it as clear as if me and my friends would be having a discussion.. not very nice eh? :) I think he's a bit of a freak, have a feeling he's listening all the time.. Feel abit sorry for the goy :disbelief |
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| gsfg |
| tell him to start listen to some in music and stop complaining |
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| Zild |
| LOL go over with a radio shack meter and adjust until you hit 54db. But yeah what everyone else said put the speakers on stands should help a lot. |
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| Orbital32 |
| go down to your look supermarket, get tons of egg cartons..."recapret" your floor! :crazy: |
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| EvilTree |
Move somewhere else where you don't have a neighbour.
Or make a deal with the guy. You'll only play music at certain hours if he stop the whining. |
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