Hello, are there any legal rules for apartments that someone can play electronic music(guitar, edrums, piano etc) weekdays or weekends?
I have a sound isolation but still my downstair neighbor is keep complaining
Here is my sound isolation platform
Hello, are there any legal rules for apartments that someone can play electronic music(guitar, edrums, piano etc) weekdays or weekends?
I have a sound isolation but still my downstair neighbor is keep complaining
Here is my sound isolation platform
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Where?
In an apartment building it is by the bylaws of V house in question.
Roughly you can play amateur stuff (non professional, non profit) during non-silent hours.
However, mind your neighbors and minimize noise that travels outside of your apartment.
Excuse me, but what makes your neighbor a psycho when he or she complains about your disorderly conduct?
I don’t think you can really have a perfect scenario without having a special sound proof built in your apartment. From the image you showed, I don’t really think that is a sound proof solution. As a fellow musician, my advice would be for you to play your guitar and drums with headsets on. Most apartments here in Finland have really thin walls, my neighbor complains about the most silent human movement we make past 10pm.
Sound isolation ABC:
Air tightness. Sound travels easiest thru air and even tiny holes between spaces leak sound, and if there are thousands of them.. Ventilation is quite often the worst culprit as it links apartments via direct air paths.
Mechanical vibrations. Isolation platforms take care of some of it, but there is also sound hitting the floor, although acoustic impedance between gas and solid takes care of most of it, the opposite happens in the other side of the walls: vibrations in a solid medium transmit sound very well back to the air.
Playing electric drums with isolation platform and using headphones are well inside the limits that neighbors just have to deal with. It can be that they are working nights, in which case… if you can find when they sleep, then time your activity so that the poor soul can sleep (this could be me.. i have to track down who owns the dogs that bark all day long, having terrible separation anxiety…). But if our activity is between 12-20.. They have to just deal with it. It is normal living and you have a right to also do what you want.
You need to tell your neighbour to go kick dirt. Complain to building management about his harassment too for good measure.
i hope you get evicted
I just run my classic 30 on the clean channel loud enough to get distortion with my telecaster and just ask my down stair neighbor how it sounds