Will this damage my electric drumkit?

[Lounge_Act]

As weird as this sounds Lounge, I can sort of understand where your neighbours are coming from though I think they could be more understanding. I used to have the Roland TD6 {with a TD10 brain and a mesh head snare} and I was surprized at how the kick made a thumpy noise, unamplified. Sometimes my son inadvetently kicks his space hopper repeatedly and it drives me nuts ! Not right, I know and I try to bear it but I can see where their point. However, I find that sometimes, just chatting with the neighbours goes a long way towards peace........unless they hate me !

Yeh it is so loud lol. I've decided to move some rooms around, and put the kit in the smallest room in the house, which is outta the way lol. I have it hooked up to my laptop, so im still able to use it for everything i wanted it for.

What else can you do, bar move house lol. Everything seems ok now. Very busy thread. Thanks for the info.

 

[Greg_L]

Yeh it is so loud lol. I've decided to move some rooms around, and put the kit in the smallest room in the house, which is outta the way lol. I have it hooked up to my laptop, so im still able to use it for everything i wanted it for.

What else can you do, bar move house lol. Everything seems ok now. Very busy thread. Thanks for the info.

All this time I thought you were in an apartment.

If you have a house, and it appears you do, I'd tell them to fuck off. It's your house and there's no way an E-kit makes enough noise to bother anyone outside your front door, much less in the next house. They're just being douchebags.

Hell, I play real drums, really loudly, in my house and they can hear it in the school across the street. I know this because my own kids have told me so. Too bad. I play in the middle of the fucking day. My neighbors don't care. I never play before 10am or after 5 in the afternoon. Those kids needs the rock and roll education anyway.

 

[Lounge_Act]

All this time I thought you were in an apartment.

If you have a house, and it appears you do, I'd tell them to fuck off. It's your house and there's no way an E-kit makes enough noise to bother anyone outside your front door, much less in the next house. They're just being douchebags.

Hell, I play real drums, really loudly, in my house and they can hear it in the school across the street. I know this because my own kids have told me so. Too bad. I play in the middle of the fucking day. My neighbors don't care. I never play before 10am or after 5 in the afternoon. Those kids needs the rock and roll education anyway.

+1 awesome

 

[saads]

Wow, that was a pretty amicable resolution

 

[grimtraveller]

there's no way an E-kit makes enough noise to bother anyone outside your front door, much less in the next house.



I play in the middle of the fucking day. My neighbors don't care. I never play before 10am or after 5 in the afternoon.

Honestly, if some of the walls in the Belfast houses are anything like the nerp they have in some of the places in London, you'd be surprized ! Many of the houses all over Britain and the Republic of Ireland are built with thin adjoining walls and sometimes you can hear fairly clearly what people are arguing about or kids crying or kick drums on their CDs and whatever ! Dumb, I know, but it can get really annoying depending on what the sound is.
Your point about when you play is a great point and for me highlights the importance of negotiating skills. If the neighbours get awkward, it's worth pointing out that the reason you're going thru all this is for their benefit. I'm fortunate coz my neighbours are cool, but I'll never track drums after 7pm.
Funnilly enough, there's a flat round where I live where I can hear this flute and sax going from time to time. I want to knock on the door and have a word - but not to complain, just to ask if whoever it is will contribute their skills to a track ot two ! But I can't work out where the sound is coming from !!

 

[antichef]

If you have a house, and it appears you do, I'd tell them to fuck off. It's your house and there's no way an E-kit makes enough noise to bother anyone outside your front door, much less in the next house. They're just being douchebags.

Ha -- I went to a party at a neighbor's house tonight and learned that all the neighbors can hear me [attempting to] play drums. They were polite enough about it, and didn't seem to mind. I think they can take it better than the bagpipes my son plays all the time.

 

[dintymoore]

Ha -- I went to a party at a neighbor's house tonight and learned that all the neighbors can hear me [attempting to] play drums. They were polite enough about it, and didn't seem to mind. I think they can take it better than the bagpipes my son plays all the time.

When you're learning something new it's horrible thinking that people are listening to every one of your mistakes. I do my own car repairs and man if I'm having a hard time with something the last thing I want is people gawking at me while I'm doing it.

No, it shouldn't matter, but it's a lot easier to blast drums out and say FUCK THE WORLD when you can already play.

We had some problems recording an electric kick in an apartment once. A thick carpet under it will help and I've put socks on the beater and Dr. Scholl's moleskin (those poor furry bastards! ) on the beater and pad.