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Home mixing without agitated neighbours? (pg. 2)
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| sleepydragon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kixx
have a feeling he's listening all the time.. Feel abit sorry for the goy :disbelief |
well yeah he is listening all the time your music is coming through the wall. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by 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. |
that just looks like a big dildo :/ |
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| DJRecess |
I don't know how relevant this'll be - but how many speakers are you using?
I had a similar problem years ago when I lived at home with my Mum. Played music WAAAY too loud, and got a couple of complaints about it. But, instead of turning the music down, I just unplugged everything except a single monitor that played into my right ear. As that took care of single ear monitoring, and something to listen to with the headphones off - it worked perfectly.
And the bonus was, as I was only using one speaker (instead of 7) I could still play it just as loud from the amp - the perceived volume to me was exactly the same, but the actualy dB level was a lot less.
Oh, and when I was just 'mixin' intead of recording, I switched the output to Mono - so I wouldn't have to worry about loss of stereo info. (Though God knows if that made much of a difference).
Good luck with it though - the only thing more annoying than being told to turn your music down is growing up, living in a flat, and having to go upstairs and ASK someone to turn it down... |
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| epdarks |
| Turn your bass down. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by epdarks
Turn your bass down. |
have you read the thread? |
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| Kixx |
Thnx DJ Recess for ur help. I've got four speakers, and I usually use all of them, but I'll try with having only the monitor on. I'm getting a sound expert called in soon, coz I AIN'T MOVIN', N' I won't stop playin' either :cool:
I'll let you know what solution I came to. I might try and settle a little with the guy but I just heard he's a lawyer, and he sued a family because they're daugther practiced playing the tuba during the day.. uh-oh :nervous: |
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| Timski |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbital32
go down to your look supermarket, get tons of egg cartons..."recapret" your floor! :crazy: |
Beat me too it...
Egg cartons ftw |
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| tubby |
Before it gets any nastier between you and your neighbour try talking to him, finding out when he's not home and you can practice without annoying him. Once the relationship sours too much he's going to be a prick about everything.
Also show consideration, it doesn't take much of a beat from next door to really piss you off, especially if your doing quiet activities yourself. Maybe set something playing at what you consider reasonable volume and ask if you can go into his place to hear how loud that goes through.
I have to say that the attitude that you won't stop either making the noise or move to a more suitable location really won't leave him many options other than to proceed with noise complaints. You might see him as unreasonable, but he's certainly going to see you that way, and with noise complaints he is going to win if he pushes it |
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| Igaryok |
| Is your house made out of paper? |
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| vman83 |
post up your neighbours address on a canibalism forum website and hopefully he dissapears soon :whip:
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| skip |
do you have carpets on the floor or anything on the walls? i know those really absorb sound. also i'd suggest playing music like you normally do and go listen outside your apartment how it sounds like. go into the guy's apartment too and listen how it sounds and if i can get a dB meter somewhere then do and measure the sound levels. sometimes placing the speakers someplace else will reduce the noise that travels through the walls and floors substantially. also try to get along with the ****** downstairs and come to an agreement with him about times and sound levels etc.
i know ty neighbors can be drag. i've had my share of them too. and for some people nothing is enough. in those cases you just have to be like a "normal person" and ignore the ****** next doors (though this might not work in your case if the ******'s a lawyer). :nervous: |
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| Trance Android |
| quote: | Originally posted by DannyO
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 |
If you were my neighbour we would come to blows. And you would come off worse :D ;)
I was gonna agree with Tubby & say try to keep it down during the evenings & maybe take it up a few notches at weekends but then I read this & he sounds like he could be a prick:
| quote: | Originally posted by Kixx
he's a lawyer, and he sued a family because they're daugther practiced playing the tuba during the day.. uh-oh :nervous: |
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