I'm in a townhouse now. It's nice because I can use the master bedroom for music, and it has good dimensions. But I can't turn things up very loud with neighbors adjacent. They have complained.
I'm in the process of selling my townhouse and moving to a new city, and I'm trying to figure out how I can cheaply live and also make a lot of noise with music.
- I can't afford to build a new house, though doing so would eliminate shared walls and I could build a music area to the dimensions I need.
- Existing houses are very expensive in this area. It doesn't make sense to buy used: might as well build.
- I think a concrete loft could be really cool: thick walls and floor, high ceilings for acoustics, and the industrial feel might do very well with the recording music videos I'll be making. But these are very expensive and hard to find. It looks like many of them have waiting lists a year long! And would the acoustic isolation from neighbors be enough?
- A standard apartment is more affordable. With low ceilings, shared walls, etc. I won't be able to make much noise at all, and I don't think that environment would lend itself well to video. Video will be a very important part of distributing my music.
- I guess I could buy a mobile home for cheap? Crappy construction in a bad neighborhood, but technically no shared walls? I don't think this would lend itself to video either. How much do you think neighbors would hear from nearby mobile homes?
What do you guys think? Did you have issues with noise in these environments?