To: TENANT IN BASEMENT STUDIO

^^^This note was in my mailbox today.

post your noise complaints here

Burn their house down. Oh wait.

My neighbors complained when I was smoking spliffs and repeatedly blasting the Duckula theme.

"No more work-a-day NYC MCs after 10 PM. This especially pertains to anyone who was in The Lox.

Thanks,

1G"

jaymc to thread!

my next door neighbor came home at like 2am last saturday night and put on jennifer hudson "and i am telling you i'm not going".. on repeat.. for several hours. just that song.

no this is the thread for when people complain about YOU

i'm not really sure how to make this better. maybe i'll just turn down the subwoofer? i'm certainly not stopping listening to music @ night

Yeah it'd be the nocturnal bass that is emerging from your subterranean lair that would be the main irritant I'd guess.

The only time I got a letter from the council or whoever was years ago when a next door neighbour complained. The only album I played on the night in question was 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out' by Yo La Tengo, which is near-impossible to make 'loud'

When I lived in my first post-college apartment someone called the management company and/or cops on me at least twice a week. Never found out who it was, but it got to the point that I had to listen to all of my music on headphones and sit a few feet away from my television so I could hear it. It got to be pretty ridiculous. Each time the cops came over they were dumbfounded as to why they were called since they couldn't hear any music from outside or the common area. The management company started threatening to evict me, but I think even they eventually realized it was some cranky/hyper-sensitive person since it was always anonymous.

was it from landlord or neighbour

i once dropped a small fan on the floor at 11:30pm and my psycho downstairs neighbour called the cops

Please do not play music after 10PM SUN-THUR and after 11pm FRI-SAT

Thanks,
1G

-- deej, Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:24 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

is 1G the person's real name?

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ok, that is not what I thought I linked.

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much better

lol @ Oilyrags

Practically every apartment I've ever had has been on the 3rd or 2nd floor, and two apartments ago the family below me was really passive aggressively bitchy about the noise and left notes on my door. I felt bad about it and tried to be conscientious about listening to music after 9 or 10pm, and still got notes or banging on the ceiling now and again. Then, after I'd tried really hard to be quiet for like a year, my ex-roommate came to stay for a couple days, and was playing Doom or some other computer game all night at insane volumes after I kept telling him to turn it down. And the neighbors, who of course didn't know I had a guest and just assumed I was being a jackass, called the fucking cops on us.

My last apartment was awesome, the room where I kept the stereo was directly over a garage so noone could hear me. My new place is over another apt. again, no idea yet if they can hear my music or care, guess time will tell.

Well, I have no great desire to play the tightass little old lady scold here, but I know I've suffered some hearing loss from stupidly loud listening habits, and I've blown out a few woofer cones in my time. Now, at 38, I don't exactly regret those excesses of youth, but I do miss being able to pick out a moderately spoken conversation in a loud room, and one of the main reasons I seldom see live music anymore is that high volume becomes pain rather than pleasure.

Also, I've had housemates and neighbors drive me crazy with their insistence on cranking tunes when I'm trying to sleep. It really does suck. Obviously, if you've got company earphones aren't an option, and almost all music sounds better when it has room to move through the air anyway. Even so, it's more important to be a considerate neighbor than it is to hear and feel that bmmmmph bmmmmph at 1:30 in the morning.

I bet I'm going to get a noise complaint within two weeks, between drumming on the practice pad and normal tv/music playing. I'm on the second floor and left my tv on when I went to do laundry, and in the first floor hallway I could pick out the dialogue. :(

This would probably be a good IMM question too.

"wat r u doing 2nite? wanna party?

3G"

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i havent met them but the girls in 1g are supposedly cuet.

Put a megaphone to the ceiling, say "This next one's strictly for the LADIES" and throw on some George Benson.

i havent met them but the girls in 1g are supposedly cuet.

if theyre going to bed at 11 on fridays and saturdays, dnw

Who says they're going to bed? They could be doing something else that requires TOTAL SILENCE.

Put a megaphone to the ceiling, say "This next one's strictly for the LADIES" and throw on some George Benson.

-- Jon Lewis, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:18 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

99% sure i have played george benson after 11pm on a saturday

"...a place to dine, a glass of wine, a little late romance..."

> if theyre going to bed at 11 on fridays and saturdays, dnw

Yeah, this is a little d'voidoffunk.

"we can't hear you beating it with the music up"

xxxpost:

Our next door neighbour shouting through a megaphone at a party across the street - "Please turn that music DOWN!!!"

i've been playing martin denny's "quiet village" on repeat at EXTREMELY low volume for three days now. i'll be just hanging out in the afternoon and i'll start thinking "hey, that ice cream truck down the street sounds just like les baxter"

Les Doppler

If there are several tenants in 1G, it's almost certain that these hours were arrived at by only one, so DIVIDE AND CONQUER.

met chick from '1g' tonite (came down to ask me to turn down music), way cuet!!!

how do i accidentally run into upstairs tenant again if ive managed to go 6 months w/out doing so previously

play louder music!

what album shd i be listening to???

SEXUAL HEALING ;)

TOO OBVIOUS

or maybe not?

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i'm certainly not stopping listening to music @ night

Most likely than not you signed a lease saying that you aren't permitted to listen to music at night if it's disturbing other tenants. But yeah, generally the bass is the big issue rather than overall volume.

I hate people who are inconsiderate with their stereos.

Clearly, you need to ask them to let you into their place (if they don't mind) so you can hear what they hear when you're playing your music!

my upstairs neighbor actually did that about two weeks ago; it was friday evening at 7:30pm and i had my stereo absolutely CRANKED - she came downstairs, knocked on my door (for like the 10th time in as many weeks - NB i never listen to music loud after 10pm) and had this look of shock and disgust on her face and asked me if i wanted to come upstairs. i did; she was alone in the house, watching tv by herself. i could BARELY HEAR the fucking music. it was just a low rumbly noise. i looked at her like she was insane.

Clearly, you need to ask them to let you into their place (if they don't mind) so you can hear what they hear when you're playing your music!

Theres your answer for getting with the girl, deej!

i lived one place where the woman downstairs was working on a masters thesis or something and expected the entire house (which had 11 apartments) to be library-quiet all day and night. she used to go nuts with the broomstick banging on her ceiling/our floor when we played "all things considered" at normal radio-listening volume at 5 p.m. i complained to the super about her, and the super was just kinda like "yeah, she's crazy, sorry."

that said, i have also been the call-the-cops guy on another downstairs neighbor, who worked late shift at a restaurant and would bring his restaurant buddies home to drink and blast the stereo at 3 a.m. (NB i only called the cops after repeatedly knocking on his stupid door and getting no response.) my only expectation on either side of this divide is a certain amount of reasonableness and courtesy.

I blast techno and do karaoke at 4 am and no one complains ever.

autechre karaoke would be sweet.

I'm of the opinion that if you decided to live in an apartment, you've forfeited your right to not be subjected to unwanted noise before 10pm on weekdays and before, say, 1am on weekends. Obv if someone is CONSTANTLY bumping some obnoxious music, they deserve to be shot.