Members Promethius Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 Do you live in log cabins? I have enough trouble practicing living in an apartment playing my guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joestanman Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 I rent a warehouse space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Promethius Posted November 3, 2003 Author Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 Originally posted by joestanman I rent a warehouse space. Are you serious? I want to do that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fafnir777 Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 Well, when I was 18 I soundproofed my parents 2-car garage. The walls are literally 12" thick. We built a Recording Studio out there. Of course, for the last 10 months my brother has been living in there (that asshole! Argh!) so I haven't been able to play my kit - So it's just been me practicing rudiments mostly on either an electronic ddrum snare drumpad, or a pillow. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dogxray Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 I live way out in the country. No neighbours, only house on the road. I practise in a spare bedroom on the second floor. The house is so sound proof you can watch TV in the room below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MattACaster Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 I practice in my room which is far from soundproof. Neighbors haven't complained yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rumblebelly Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 I live in a trailer park. The neighbors don't complain because I killed them all. Chopped them up into pieces and buried them under my trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members portnoyfan84 Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 I live in the country and practice in my own room. My room is on the second floor in one end of the house and the kitchen and the TV room is in the other end of the house and downstairs. My closest neighbours can probably hear me playing if they are outside in their backyard but they are used to it and don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BonusCup Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 i play in the basement. my neighbors on one side are into music so they don't mind at all. my other neighbor pisses me off so i open the basement and garage doors when i feel like returning the favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ulank Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 Practice in the basement. You can barely hear it outside. If you're walking up to the house while we're playing, there's just a faint rumble, rhythm going on. I practice at 2-3am at least once a month, never ever a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members M Ferguson Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 Looks like a toss up between the basement and the country. I live in the country too, and we converted our old Chicken house into a practice studio/apartment. Does anyone here practice in the basement in the country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steamyz Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 In my studio - we don't have basements out here :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drummer_jay Posted November 3, 2003 Members Share Posted November 3, 2003 When I lived at home growing up.... we lived on the edge of town... The front of our house looked like it was smack in the middle of a suburb... But walk around back, and we had a large grassy field behind us... Probably 3-5 acres.. Anyway, I always jammed out in this old barn behind our house.... It was for SURE not sound proof!! I built a little stage out there and what not... Every once in awhile I'd even build a make shift stage in the middle of that field and jam!! lol .... Of course I imagined millions of fans watching!! lol ..... Anyway... When we sold the place and moved.. I was around 18.... I figured that all the neigbors hated me cause of my playing! You could hear it from blocks and blocks away! BUT, almost all the neigbors stopped by over the period of the last week we were there to say they'd miss us..... and they ALL said they loved listening to me play as I grew up!! Said it was sad that no more music would be coming from the backyard! I was shocked and realieved! Anyway.....No adays I have a basement.. but you can hear it pretty well from outside... So I don't get to practice much.. I have to drive about 45 minutes to get to the place we practice.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HuskerDude Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 In our (I live with my band) converted garage. The nieghbors on the far side cant hear us, and the ones close to the garage are renters, so they can {censored} off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rambler1959 Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 I practice with my band in my living room. Lots of neighbors but never any complaints, some people have even complemented me on how good we sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dark Slide Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 I just practice. I live right on Main Street and neighbors 20 feet away with a gas station across the street. When the neighbors complain, I tell em to shut the {censored} up because I never practice earlier than 11 or later than 7. The cops have showed up a few times and when they were unable to give me the sound ordinance laws I told em to {censored} off. They said that if they got another complaint that they would gimme a summons for disorderly... so I just lock my doors. They stopped coming because if my doors are locked and I can't hear em, it's pretty tough to gimme a summons for anything. I am well known in town as 'That asshole near the gas station with the drums' but I gives no {censored}s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BarneyGumbel Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 Originally posted by Promethius Do you live in log cabins? I have enough trouble practicing living in an apartment playing my guitar. I appended a sound-proof jam room/studio to the back of our garage. It's 18'x18' with high ceilings. Cost about $20,000 to build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dash OH drummer Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 My band all lives in the same house so bothering them is a little out of the question when I play. We live in a cal-de-sac. The 1st week we walked around and got everyone's schedules so we can arrange practice time around it. So problems yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ulank Posted November 4, 2003 Members Share Posted November 4, 2003 ...oh, I also practice with heavier sticks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members john clarity Posted November 5, 2003 Members Share Posted November 5, 2003 pads on the drums-magnificent, same feel more or less and no noise, only 20 quid. saving the neighbours not mention my own hearing.it's odd, i used to practice with ear defenders on, and when you wear them with the pads on the drums the drums sound the same as if there were no pads, as you still get a good thud out of them but with no treble whatsoever.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members absent19 Posted November 8, 2003 Members Share Posted November 8, 2003 heh, i play in my basement, out in the country. but drums aren't the fairly distant neighbours main problem...yay for insanely loud guitar amps:D . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zeppelin4Life Posted November 8, 2003 Members Share Posted November 8, 2003 check this out. My neighbors hate me, since then, ive soundproofed my den downstairs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stinky Drummer Posted November 9, 2003 Members Share Posted November 9, 2003 I practice with V-Drums. Also allows me to run a line-in, which I can mix-in, so I can practice to music or a click track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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