Sucks when you can't get back to sleep. I have a problem with a racing mind in bed at the best of times. I find that taking a GABA supplement helps, and also a dose of melatonin when I can't sleep. Magnesium citrate also tends to make me sleep better with less waking. 

For a short period I used to have a neighbour that knocked on the wall when I was recording guitar.
But I'm usually quite quiet.
And I never complained to her about the noise I heard her making in bed.

If I can hear the neighbor distinctly (had that issue in Russia, through ventilation traps), I usually take it that I'm better off working w/ headphones.

Otherwise I rarely work at a level going anywhere beyond being able to have a casual conversation.

I'm trying to enjoy our place here while I can because soundproofing is pretty incredible. I can actually sing w/o worrying that the neighbors will hear me re-do the same take 307 times. ;)

Neighbors

[shudder]

Glad I don't have those anymore.

Hey Linear Phase next time you crank it up like that can you do me a favour and get a hold of a SPL meter, set it to the C weighting and tell me what it is. You may have lost track a bit at how loud it may have been. I know it is easy to do. 

I think not going past 9 or very latest 10 PM is a fair thing. But I am lucky also as I have 4 days a week here where I can get loud. Everyone goes off to work here during the day which is pretty good I must admit.

UbiquitousBubba


Neighbors

[shudder]

Glad I don't have those anymore.

Glad I don't have those anymore.
 
 
 Oh no. I won't ask.
 
Linear Phase, If you are mixing many of the experts will tell you that the lower levels are best to hear the mix entirely. If you're making hip hop beatz going into those frequencies that might set off small earthquakes then yeah I'd get a set of headphones that I like and wear them after 9-10pm.
 
 Out where I live the crickets and locusts get so loud outside that they pretty much drown out most of what I do.I do my wife a big favor and put the headphones on after around 9. I might repeat a part several hundred times and that can drive some people insane, not to mention the noise.
 
 

Darn..  This neighbor is complaining again.  IMHO She does not like kick drums, "before they have been compressed and eq'd."

You would think she would have a little patience...  I was trying out several different comps to see which one, would be best, for this particular kick sound.  Then obviously, the very next thing would be, "EQ."



Now of course, I feel totally uncomfortable doing this all tonight.   And its not even loud..  its just a lil, "boomy," at the current moment.