How to stop annoying the neighbours MR/ MRS DJ

0:00 Had someone email me about sound problems, sound pollution, noise prob

Alright folks, had someone email me about sound problems, sound pollution, noise problems in residential areas. In other words, maybe you live out in the country and you're sorted, but then again, maybe you live in the middle and you've got one person on that side, one person on that side, you've got somebody downstairs and you've got somebody upstairs and you like to play your music loud but sadly www.ellaskins.com You hear that buzzing sound, I mean that's called tinnitus. That can happen, I mean to anybody it can happen for say a few seconds, a few days, some people will have it for life. But quite often what you'll find is all of a sudden you'll go into a big room and it'll be really loud and after a while you'll get used to it. It's simply because your ears are thinking oh there's too much going on there. I'm not a doctor so I don't know the exact logistics of what goes on.

But I want you to look at this guy here. Now that is a relatively small speaker. Now there is logic behind this. If I was to play this speaker now to you where the camera is, this would seem relatively loud. This is a small speaker so I wouldn't really have to turn it up that much because this speaker is quite close to you but it's quite small. The reason I'd have to turn it up slightly more is because it's actually further away. Okay, so we've got one, we've got two. That's a bit of a comparison. Now what I'm going to do is go back over here. Now this is another speaker. It's an RCF Event 6000, two 15s, an 8-inch and a 1-inch compression driver. This will actually push out 1000 watts. If I wanted this...

2:21 Where's all this going?

To be as loud as the smaller speaker over there, I would have to turn this up quite considerably, maybe not a lot, but I would definitely have to turn this one up to get exactly the same sound as this one and as this one. Right, where's all this going? I will explain. Hold tight. Now then, maybe you've seen quite often I'll have this monitor here. Now that's a PV cab. It's plastic. It's got a 12-inch driver and a 1-inch compression driver. That, believe it or not, is something called a Black Widow driver, and that, I think it's a TTX5 or something like that. It's quite a nice driver. In fact, the magnet in that 1-inch compression driver is possibly about that big, which is quite often the same size as some magnets you'll find in small speakers, but we won't go into that at the moment. Now, I don't know if you've ever noticed, but I very, very rarely turn it up. The reason being is because that's quite close to me.

Now this one was the smaller speaker. Now again, there is the size comparison. And what I will do after this, I'll show you the size comparison between that one and the even bigger one. Now this is what I actually used to do. Now if you think about it again, if your speaker's a mile away, you're going to have to turn it up. If you turn it up, it's going to be loud, you're possibly going to annoy the neighbours. But, this is what I have done in the past. One turntable there. And then you can see, yeah you can see it, other turntable there. Now what I've done, first of all, if you can't do the next procedure that I'll tell you about, you get a box, anything you want, and then you put your speaker on that. Now the reason for that, okay, you can't hold on, if I stand, do that. Right, this box ideally should be a bit higher, but what you actually want, you want that speaker to be

4:43 We're actually on about if you can do this, cradle it from the ceiling

Head level, like so. Ideally you want it facing in at 45 degrees if you can see that. Now here's the deal. This is where it gets quite interesting and if you can do this you will find one heck of a difference with the actual clarity and quality of the sound out of the speaker. I have done this in the past but please for goodness sake don't start drilling holes everywhere. Ask permission or make sure you can do it first because you don't want the speakers falling on you. Right, what am I on about? Suspend the speaker. No, we're not on about suspenders. We're actually on about if you can do this, cradle it from the ceiling. Now basically what's happening now, if you can imagine that speaker there is at this point which is...

Www.ellaskins.co.uk There's the whole idea. If you think about it like I said earlier, if that speaker is wound against your ear, the last thing you're going to do is turn it up. Think on the principle of headphones. Headphones on your ears are really loud. You move headphones away from your ears, they get quieter and quieter. Small speaker close to you is much better than a big speaker far away, especially if you're in a residential sort of area. So that's how you can actually get away From get away, sorry, from not annoying the neighbours. Now what I will do is we'll wang the camera off there and I'm now going to show you in my mad nutty way the difference between that and that one over there. So we'll walk this way. Sorry about that. Right, there's the little speaker and the little speaker is just slightly bigger than the actual logo and there's the big speaker.

So there you go, that's the size difference. Practice and enjoy!

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