Do your neighbours impact on your music production in any way?
Like how loud you can play your music
Time you can create(nothing after midnight for example)
Noise from their side or floor ceiling etc.(in an apartment)
Or maybe you live in a detached property and are free as a bird.
Weāre pretty lucky, even though we live in a semi, itās only actually attached to our neighbours in one room and the room I do all my music in is miles away from anyone and surprisingly soundproof, so I can get away with being fairly loud until pretty late, but I always either turn it down low or put headphones on after about 10pm, because itās just polite.
Also, I live on a cul de sac so all my neighbours are pretty old and I think theyād shit themselves if they could hear what I was up to.
I live in what was one massive house thatās now split into two houses so parts of my neighbours house are underneath me downstairs, Iāve never heard him in my life and never had a complaint from him. I think the problem for lots of people is that new builds use cheese for a support structure and 2 ply toilet paper for walls. My house is old and solid as a rock. Obviously I donāt go cranking it to 11 at 4am but I frequently have late night sessions with no issue. How loud are you guys jamming? I tend to use whatās necessary rather than recording like Iām playing a club set
Normal flat ⦠already had the police coming once ⦠we only noticed because their knocking on the front door was so heavy that the door to my room also was shaking. They were so pissed ⦠coz they were knocking for like 10-15 minutes now I am afraid to make music at all without headphones.
Lately Iāve been looking for a house in Sweden. So cheap there⦠And freedom to make music as long and as loud as I want.
Iām playing music at normal volumes, never had any issue with neighbours.
Even if they come, what can they say? The law allows me to make noise from 7 to 11.
Does everyone in Europe live in 2D houses or something?
Iāve lived in my fair share of paper thin apartments where you can hear the neighbor fart. Happy to have a house.
I usually keep it fairly low. Once in a while I like to crank it to feel the sub for a little bit or do the āfrom the other roomā mix test. Crank it up and go to another room, see what stands out. Itās a good way to get your bearings on mix levels.
now Iām lucky. my studio space is a room added to the back of the house, which was previously a patio. since it was basically āoutsideā the house previously, itās isolated well. a decent volume doesnāt bother my wife when sheās in the next room over. and a loud one doesnāt if sheās asleep in the front of the house. closest neighborsā house is 30 feet over and they have never complained.
my previous house was a duplex. most neighbors didnāt care as they were friends and I knew what times were cool to be loud and what werenāt. a couple I didnāt know, with a newborn, lived there for a year though. no level of volume I tried was OK. the bass always transferred over and they complained. headphones were the only option.
Iāve also played drums all my life. in bands. and usually practice was at my house. so I have no shortage of stories of pissed off neighbors, including cops called, noise violation fines, etc.
Donāt get that reference to 2D houses We build our houses with stones ⦠so theyāre okayāish sound isolated. But barking and loud talking and bass music is getting through.
Prices went up severely in my area (big city) ⦠even flats are 500k⬠⦠a nice house 500k and up - I donāt want to afford that. In Sweden I could get that for 60k (without having neighbours living 5 meters away ⦠more like 5000ā¦). With 10-20x more land.
My last neighbors were living, breathing, barely-sentient nightmares. It wasnāt me making the noise, it was them. They installed a massive stereo system in the garage out back. They blared country-rap so loud that the lyrics (such as they were) could clearly be understood three blocks away. The bass literally shook my floorboards and walls. This went on anytime they were home.
I begged them to have some consideration, maybe work out a schedule so I could do my work. Nope.
The cops did nothing, their landlord did nothing. Other neighbors began moving away.
After six months, Iād had enough. We moved to the farmhouse in which we currently reside. See the trees in the distance in the photo below? In this house, my closest neighbors are on the other side of those trees.
Rave at Scotās house starts at midnight, everybody.
(Fortunately for me my neighbor is a retired dude that is super cool and spend a lot of time on his back porch with psychedelic lights, Iāll bring him to the rave)