I need to exact sonic revenge on the noisy people upstairs.

For the last 2 weeks, I've heard this heavy bass thumping coming from the apartment upstairs. For hours at a time, the same 5 or 6 notes would play and then repeat and repeat ad nauseam. I'd like to annoy them, because they sure as hell annoy me.

Now, I've got 2 THX-certified speaker systems and a pair of floor standing speakers with a dedicated amp in my arsenal.

The trouble is, I can't direct the sonic mayhem upstairs, because I can't mount speakers in such a way as to transmit the vibrations up. With my set up, I can only disturb those downstairs, not the perpetrators above. The sound travels by "conduction" through a solid medium.

What do I do? Run up there at 3pm and knock on their door, then run away? Throw various waste products into their balcony?

EDIT: I was thinking about buying a horn-loaded PA speaker and then playing some Star Wars phrase over and over again. Any ideas which quote sounds good? "At last we will have revenge," is my choice.

 

Call the cops on them.

That'll give them a lot of trouble and help you exact revenge.

In addition to the noise, say you've smelt marijuana before too.

 

Don't fight noise with noise, it will only create problems. First, fill up a garbage can FULL of water and prop it on their door. Just leave it there, don't even knock. Make sure they are inside before you do it.
Put K-Y Jelly on their doorknob on occasions.

 

I feel your pain..... I have the same problem with the moron that lives above us.

We just stand outside and yell for her to "turn it down" and my fiance' pounds on the wall. That seems to work.

You could try the conventional route and call the landlord.

[shrug]

 

Well, it's not loud enough for such harsh retribution. But I really want a just level of revenge that annoys them at exactly the same level as they annoy me.

I was thinking about buying a horn-loaded PA speaker and then playing some Star Wars phrase over and over again. Any ideas which quote sounds good? "At last we will have revenge," is my choice.

The property management is really nonchalant about these things, so it's not much help to contact them.

 

I have a REALLY cool bass soundtest MP3 that'd rock your room (and the rooms adjacent to it on all sides, above and below included). It simply cycles through bass frequencies, starting outside human hearing range. It's really sweet.

 

I'd like to keep extra-lateral damage to a minimum, though. I've got way too many subwoofers for that not to annoy the people downstairs.

 

Well.. it's still a cool MP3, and works as a fun sound-test. If anyone wants it, send me a PM and I can hook you up.

 

I was just kidding about the weed thing.

 

Go to your local Home Depot or Lowes and get some mounting brackets and small plank of wood to mount one of your "subs" as close to the ceiling as possible.... Find a loop of just very low bass that would repeat out of time without any real sequence to it.... Play it loud, but not so loud that it hurts your "sub"..... It would be more of a pyschological, unerving effect that would drive them insane.

 

am i the only one thinking of the old bugs bunny cartoons, when the saw comes out of the floor and the person on top falls through? ?

 

You might want to try to mount the speaker on the ceiling in a way that the sound is sent upwards. Provided that your speakers are not that heavy you should be able to mount the from your ceiling using a wood frame of some sort...

 

Buy a huge stereo and drown out whatever they may be playing.

In the end you'll have a huge stereo and tons of enemys....who could resist??

 

Heres an idea: Im in a drama production class and we have to set up these things that deflect sound waves everytime a choir performs in the Performing Arts Center where the class just happends to be.


they, well, reflect sound. you could get a few smaller versions(dont know how much they are) and use them to set at an angle infront of the speaker to drive the sound waves up instead of out, down, and up.

 

#1 put about 13-24 inch nails through there floor

#2 put a block of limberger cheese in there airvents

 

I tested it, and unless I get direct speaker to ceiling contact, sound doesn't transmit well enough to bother them. The ceiling is made of this weird, bumpy material that doesn't have a large surface area for mechanical transmission.

I like the idea of finding a mount, though, and maybe I can rig an efficient mounting surface to get the sound up. Still, the stuff from the ceiling will start flaking off with my speakers, which vibrate quite a bit.

I think I'm just going to get a PA speaker and mount it outside my window. Maybe for the finishing touch, I'll loop the THX logo sound.

 

I would just have a friend park a car on the street and play gnr's appetite for destruction, over and over again until they stop.

Axl.

 

"What do I do? Run up there at 3pm and knock on their door, then run away? Throw various waste products into their balcony?"

Both are good. Also bang a broom into the ceiling. And the flaming poop bag never fails.

Amazing.

 

Since I'm getting a lot of requests for the bass-resonance-test MP3, I'll post my instant-messenger contact info here. I've got all three programs running right now, so send me a message and I'll file-transfer you the MP3.

AIM: Xenomrph
MSN: xenomrph@hotmail.com
ICQ: 33595193

 

I'll loop the THX logo sound.

Oh yeah. It's super-loud to start with... nice touch!

beeeeaouuuuuuOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

when my cousin blared his bass and music as loud as he could nonstop for 3 days, i took action

you see, my cd player was 3 times better than his, and i had chuckwagon gang and kitty wells

that was a fierce 3 hours but i think his bass exploded, while i didnt even have mine turned up all the way

 

You could just ask the person to quiet down

 

That deafeats the purpose.

Try aiming some subs upwards, some of the TDK ones are good for this

Jedi Benji, In Lack of a Better Manual Sig

 

For sonic revenge, nothing but Sonic Youth turned up really loud will do.

 

Nail your subwoofer and/or speakers to the ceiling, speaker facing upwards, and pump up the volume.