Noise Pollution... I'm to blame!

Turn it down. If you like loud music, move to somewhere where you can indulge your passion without ****ing everyone else off.
 
JoeMama said:
Your neighour is being very reasonable in asking you to turn your music off at 10pm. I wouldn't put up with thumping bass through the walls at any time of day. The low frequencies resonate through floors and walls even at lower volumes.
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So move the subwoofer round the room trying to find somewhere it doesn't quite travel outside the room as much?
 
My speakers sound really quiet in my room, but the bass from them is much louder in other rooms of the house.
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try playing with the angles of your speakers if possible, generally if they arent pointing directly at you the base will sound bigger meaning you can turn the base down slightly but with the same boom
 
If you are all students then I don't see issues playing it until 11-12 although it's hard to know how loud your playing it and how bad its ******* the student off nextdoor.
 
You could try speaker spikes to try and keep the resonating noise down, but bass travels very well.

I'm on the receiving end of this sort of thing at Uni at the moment and while he's toned it down over the last 6 months or so it's still pretty damn annoying. I can hear his bass through my headphones at times and to be honest it's not all that loud, just audible and annoying as it carries through everything.
 
I think all the people in the flats around mine don't complain because they are all stoned, you walk in the hallway and all you get is the smell of weed, party's from over the corridor and fights every week and police coming round lol, and one of my house mates stunk the flat out, it smelt like a jungle by the time he finished.
 
I personally think neighbours should never have to hear music they don't want to, at any time.

I really think that noise disturbance is one of the major annoyances of modern life. There must be certain things that bother you greatly in life? Perhaps your neighbour finds noise bothersome, you need to see things from other people's point of view. The UK is a crowded island, and we all have to get along.

I think your neighbour is being very reasonable in saying no noise please after 10pm. You can buy some very nice headphones these days (I have a pair of Sennheisers so I don't disturb my neighbours), and I feel that would be the appropriate solution after 10pm (if not before).

Sorry about the tone of this reply, but I'm with your neighbour! :p
 
terraced student housing ? we can hear nextdoor have normal volumed conversations our walls are so thin :( they can probably hear us too
 
gareth.e said:
I've tried woofer cooker :D

tbh the chemical bros tune is loud enough to shake my whole room like mental :D
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Same, I shook everything off my house mates shelve next door, she wasn't very happy, I only do it when loads of people come in as they want to see how loud it is.

I'd say I'm the most considerate house mate when it comes to noise, yes I play it loud sometimes, but I make sure it's not on late, well I do have the speakers on late, just turned right down as thats how I like it when playing games, despite me having the 5.1 system with 10" sub in the tiny room the other house mates with there small systems play em for longer and at later times. They come back from clubbing screaming outside and stuff lol.

These bass tests are good to annoy people who annoy you though!
 
Oooh, we might have found a fix.

So i've been having a quick read. Apparantly i should read through things before trying to set them up with guess work :rolleyes:

The Phase dial on my subwoofer, well i didn't know what it was at all. So i left it completely to one side. Bearing in mind my front speakers are pretty crap the bass from them is largely being shouldered by the sub.

Apparently having the subwoofer out of phase actually negates the effect as the waves from main speakers and sub counter-act each other.

Had a little fiddle with it and now my music seems just as good to me in my room, but the bass doesn't have to be quite as loud. Also moving it 2 inches further out of the alcove in the room has lowered the resonating a bit as well.

I can comfortably have my music sound nice and whole at levels loud enough to fill my room without hearing much at all from the bedroom underneath mine.

I'd say that's a result!
 
A good move would now to tell your neighbour that you think you have solved the problem and ask if it is still affecting him. If it is, then get some headphones. :)
 
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