10-15-2013, 02:56 PM
70 db is measured from where? I would imagine that would mean 70db outside of the property limit. If property is truly private than outsiders can't just dictate what you do inside, never the less whether you play acoustic or electric, piano or bassoon.
Anyway, I am looking to get acres of land so it would take a lot of noise to bother neighbors and I don't imagine I would be making that much noise. I have been playing music all my life and I know people play music on the Big Island because human beings have been playing music since the dawn of humanity or before. Do other giant apes play music? Surely they make some noise. Anyway recording studios and practice spaces are not usually out in the open. A halfway decent recording space or practice space is usually a sound proofed room. That is why you see sound engineers behind glass windows in the movies and such. They talk to the musicians through an intercom system because the room the musicians are in is sound proof. Even moniter speakers are usually placed on sound isolating pads so they don't reverberate through the furniture and walls in strange ways.
In fact I am producing music in a 500 sq ft. apartment right now and not once has anyone complained. I have even outright asked my neighbors if they hear me playing music when I work late. They say they never hear me.
So have I, in my whole life of playing music, ever contemplated what the city laws are about playing music? Nope
Will I consider doing so ever? absolutely not
If I am bothering my neighbors do I care? Yes I absolutely do and I will do what I can to make them comfortable.
Anyway, I am looking to get acres of land so it would take a lot of noise to bother neighbors and I don't imagine I would be making that much noise. I have been playing music all my life and I know people play music on the Big Island because human beings have been playing music since the dawn of humanity or before. Do other giant apes play music? Surely they make some noise. Anyway recording studios and practice spaces are not usually out in the open. A halfway decent recording space or practice space is usually a sound proofed room. That is why you see sound engineers behind glass windows in the movies and such. They talk to the musicians through an intercom system because the room the musicians are in is sound proof. Even moniter speakers are usually placed on sound isolating pads so they don't reverberate through the furniture and walls in strange ways.
In fact I am producing music in a 500 sq ft. apartment right now and not once has anyone complained. I have even outright asked my neighbors if they hear me playing music when I work late. They say they never hear me.
So have I, in my whole life of playing music, ever contemplated what the city laws are about playing music? Nope
Will I consider doing so ever? absolutely not
If I am bothering my neighbors do I care? Yes I absolutely do and I will do what I can to make them comfortable.