Post by popmann on Sept 11, 2014 12:39:16 GMT -6
Does anyone manage this?
I've only lived in two apartments in my entire life...one was a one story, all brick, well designed (brick/air gap/brick in between) OLD apartment--I was the one on the end, so the bedroom, where I kept the music stuff backed up to the parking lot/back. I wasn't really gonna be blaring a 100wt Marshall or something...but, for normal "loud" music levels, I didn't disturb anyone. Then, when we first moved to Nashville, we took a 7mo lease while we got settled and found jobs and a house....typical modern paper thin wall type apt complex--this is known as "the worst 7 months of my life". I used to drive around in my car blaring the CD player and belting it out...I'd never been somewhere I couldn't play music.
It also happened that the downstairs neighbor had an adult son who blared the worst music ever ALL DAY until mom&dad got home from work at which time he would turn it off and they would beat on the ceiling/floor if I strummed an acoustic too loudly. We were constantly yelling and calling...I tried to work during the day--couldn't because MY walls were shaking with No Doubt or Green Day or whatever alt 90s rock was cool that week...but, I couldn't work at night because his parents would have none of it...
Anyway...I wonder every time I read about people investing huge dollars in plug in amp sims and talking about mixing in headphones, etc...where it seems to me like they're going out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot sonically AND overspend...all to...if they lived in that apartment, it would make sense. When I say I can do a better sounding track with any amp and a mic at low volume...that's still not paper thin apt volume. You know?
This is on my mind as I am in transition...where I may end up moving back home where I have family...career transition back to a non musical gig...and after I talked to someone this morning in Franklin, I literally went to my car (iPhone) and looked at what the defined poverty line is in the US. Because there's no way that with what they pay, employees could live anywhere nearby. And, I came across that it's factored by what the cost of a 1bedroom apartment rents for....I realized I have NO idea what apts rent for in Franklin...because that simply has been a non starter. If I can't belt it out while I'm doing the dishes....or do SOME practice at gig volume with the amps...or blast the new Counting Crows CD....anyway--if I can't do that stuff, I'm not gonna be happy living there.
I'm just wondering how many of you make your music/studio in an apartment.
I've only lived in two apartments in my entire life...one was a one story, all brick, well designed (brick/air gap/brick in between) OLD apartment--I was the one on the end, so the bedroom, where I kept the music stuff backed up to the parking lot/back. I wasn't really gonna be blaring a 100wt Marshall or something...but, for normal "loud" music levels, I didn't disturb anyone. Then, when we first moved to Nashville, we took a 7mo lease while we got settled and found jobs and a house....typical modern paper thin wall type apt complex--this is known as "the worst 7 months of my life". I used to drive around in my car blaring the CD player and belting it out...I'd never been somewhere I couldn't play music.
It also happened that the downstairs neighbor had an adult son who blared the worst music ever ALL DAY until mom&dad got home from work at which time he would turn it off and they would beat on the ceiling/floor if I strummed an acoustic too loudly. We were constantly yelling and calling...I tried to work during the day--couldn't because MY walls were shaking with No Doubt or Green Day or whatever alt 90s rock was cool that week...but, I couldn't work at night because his parents would have none of it...
Anyway...I wonder every time I read about people investing huge dollars in plug in amp sims and talking about mixing in headphones, etc...where it seems to me like they're going out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot sonically AND overspend...all to...if they lived in that apartment, it would make sense. When I say I can do a better sounding track with any amp and a mic at low volume...that's still not paper thin apt volume. You know?
This is on my mind as I am in transition...where I may end up moving back home where I have family...career transition back to a non musical gig...and after I talked to someone this morning in Franklin, I literally went to my car (iPhone) and looked at what the defined poverty line is in the US. Because there's no way that with what they pay, employees could live anywhere nearby. And, I came across that it's factored by what the cost of a 1bedroom apartment rents for....I realized I have NO idea what apts rent for in Franklin...because that simply has been a non starter. If I can't belt it out while I'm doing the dishes....or do SOME practice at gig volume with the amps...or blast the new Counting Crows CD....anyway--if I can't do that stuff, I'm not gonna be happy living there.
I'm just wondering how many of you make your music/studio in an apartment.
