Thursday 21 August 2014

Rocket Science


We have sound engineers coming all the way from Nottingham in a minute to see if they can sort out the pounding bass-line coming from the flat roof of the new restaurant, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights.

I went down late one Saturday night to complain about it, but when I got inside the bar, the music levels were quite acceptable - prognosis: the problem was the flat roof acting as a drum-skin.

I have been telling them this for quite a while now, but they have come up with all sorts of other reasons, such as the volume of customers soaking up the sound, etc., and up until today have declined any invitations to come up and listen for themselves.

When the manager called me yesterday to arrange for the engineers to get access, we talked about the situation a little more and he responded to my saying that the problem was worse at weekends by telling me that they had a different music 'profile' on Fridays and Saturdays, and it was more a case of the type of party music played, rather than the volume it was played at. I expressed my disbelief that it could be so complicated, and returned to the drum-skin theory.

Eventually, he admitted that they had installed a Super-Woofer bass speaker right onto the ceiling below the flat roof.

The engineer told me yesterday - from Nottingham - that they had told them not to do that, but they insisted. He is re-positioning it now as I speak, and will be up here in an hour or so to test out the theory in practice...

15 comments:

  1. Hope you get some peace from this now Tom. Nothing puts me in a bad mood faster than other people's unnecessarily loud noise.

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  2. ...Unless it's the business next door to us setting bonfires at 9am on a beautiful sunny day and filling the entire garden with their smoke for hours on end....

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  3. You are suffering from elderliness and becoming a grumpy old fart.

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    1. Nooooooo, I'm so glad that Tom didn't give up. Think about it. When something bothers you, you often don't say anything at all and the other person get's away with it. If you say something the for the first time, you might get ignored and the other person gets away with it. If you say something a second time, the other person will assume that you feel like a complainer by now, ignore you and they get away with it. I think that usually people stop after the second attempt to correct something because by then they feel like they are the wrong-doers. I'm glad that Tom stuck with it and, hopefully, he will find a good outcome. But I know, Heron, that you just meant it as a joke, you funny old fart, you.

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    2. I'll deal with this thank you, Iris.

      Now let me get this straight, Heron. I call myself a 'dirty old man', and you call yourself a 'healthy old man' for the same reasons.

      I call myself old, and you tell me that I am a mere youngster when compared to you.

      Maybe I used to be a grumpy young fart?



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  4. It appears they understood the problem from the outset and intended to out wait you. I'm sure they did not have a board meeting and say you would quit complaining eventually, but inaction is like water running downhill--very easy. Well, I hope it works.

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    1. I am trying very hard not to get the 'authorities' involved. It will be resolved, I know.

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  5. As we live in a college town, and right across from student rentals, I hear you! At the beginning of every school year, we make our trek across the street at some point to tell them to keep it down. Sometimes the police are called if they don't take heed.
    Different than a pub nearby, I know. Hopefully the repositioning of the speaker will help.
    The most thoughtful thing ever - for the last couple of years, a student group takes over a gym a block away for a music festival. They put notices in everyone's mailbox, apologizing for the loudness.
    We're also fortunate that the students are away all summer.

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    1. Well I will give you an update soon, at the risk of boring you.

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    2. You are not boring me. But now I think I bored you.

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