Noist neighbors

[Chris Randall]

Aside from my comments on the previous "noisy neighbors" thread (re: Jacob's
Ladders, et al) I've had a recent experience that relates to the subject at
hand.

We recently got new neighbors both above and behind our apartment, both of
whom seemed to need to play music that has little to no intrinsic value
(e.g. early nineties Belgian Techno, ironically a style of music I had no
small part in at the time). Since we run a record label out of our house, I
noticed the irony inasmuch as the music was bothering me. Aside of that, our
new upstairs neighbors fight almost every day, starting at about 3:30 AM,
and going until 5.

With the back neighbors it was pretty simple; their speakers were against
our bedroom wall, and I asked them to move them. All good. The upstairs ones
were pretty salty, though. First, I made a super hard kick sound on an ER-1,
turned it on quarter notes at 80 BPM, put it on the monitors at top volume,
and left my house for about 6 hours. They seemed to get the point for a
couple weeks, but started up again. My next attack was to put Public Enemy's
"Nation" album on repeat with said monitors against the ceiling, courtesy of
a Metro Shelving unit, and go work a 14 hour day. Again, it worked for a
couple of weeks, but they went back to their old ways.

So now, every time they fight, I call the police. They are quite as church
mice once the police come, and don't open their door when the police knock.
I'm actually on a first name basis now with several of our third-shift
officers in the neighborhood, and they're super cool about the whole thing.
They say that eventually, they'll catch them fighting, and that will be
that. Until then, at least it is quite for a while.

Your milage may vary.

On another note, I got a Blacet Time Machine in the mail today, and I have
to say that anyone here that doesn't own one is missing out, big time. This
is the best analog delay I own, by far. (Note: I got the already built
model, not the kit.)

-Chris Randall
-Positron! Records http://www.positronrecords.com