How to cause interference on speakers

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This is where having a rather loud guitar amplifier comes in handy

vyseyboy

anewhope wrote: »

This is where having a rather loud guitar amplifier comes in handy

I was just about to say the same thing...

or drums.

Better still if you've never played them before. That'll learn them.

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vyseyboy wrote: »

I was just about to say the same thing...

or drums.

Better still if you've never played them before. That'll learn them.

We have drums and full guitar/bass stacks in this house, it's a good job we have understanding neighbours

salerbil

Environmental health route = positive :beer:
interference route = negative :rolleyes:

imnotalwaysright

ringo_24601 wrote: »

How about this one... a microphone and some big speakers. Oh, and earplugs, really good ones.

Make the mother of all feedback loops

I do have a microphone & some excellent speakers - I tried it but it didn't work!!!

imnotalwaysright

There's some brilliant responses on this one, thanks everyone, although none really possible it was great to have a giggle about it.

It hasn't stopped 10 days on. It's peaceful until - (reminds me of bjorks oh so quiet!) she hears me potter about in the dining room then the music comes on, loud as you like. Normally 3 or 4 hours a day. When I go out to the post office to post all my previous days' parcels, I get back & she's gone!!! I'm so frustrated with it. It's only during the week days too, never weekends, never after my partner has come home. Grrr. 3 days ago it was loud techno stuff, yesterday it was The Carpenters (strange woman). Maybe she's judging what annoys me the most!

Unfortunately her meter isn't outside!

wanye

dotstar24 wrote: »

play her at her own game....get the biggest system, and wack on some banging Gabba techno...this will drive her nuts. if she comes round wait for her to start talking, cut her off mid-sentence and say 'wait a sec....sorry, this is my favourite bit' and bop away in front of her. she'll either get the message or think your mad. xxx

best idea yet. its what i do when neighbours are playing akon songs over and over with all their windows open.

personally, a nice bit of squarepusher or the new scooter album does the job quite nicely

Jesthar

Well, the safe, boring answer is to contact environmental health and get them to come round and measure the noice levels. They have the power to seize stereo equipment if they deem it necessary, and taking any action yourself could land YOU in trouble rather than your neighbour.

What you should also do is keep a diary of when these incidents occur - start time, stop time, noise levels etc. It's all good evidence! If you really want to be accurate, you could get hold of a decibel meter (I found a 5 in 1 digital meter which include dB measurement on sale at Maplins for £20 intil the 30th Sept (usual price £40) at Maplins with a quick google search, here: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=220808 I'm sure you can do better for that if you have a look!) and record the dB levels at various points. You may even fine environmental health will lend you one for evidence gathering purposes. If you have a video camera, you may want to take a video diary of you taking the readings to offset claims of faking data.


The non-boring-but-risky answer is: You said you had laminate floors? Why not organise a clog-dancing convention, or a Riverdance party?

And finally, the definitely-not-boring-but-carries-a-mild-language-warning answer is:

Read this BOFH story - including the comments section - and use your imagination:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/bofh_2008_episode_12/