BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!

Subject: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 05:19 PM

In the UK, after tackling Smoking, Obesity and Heavy Drinking, I hope the government will turn its attention to the unbelievable increase in noise in day-to-day life. I wonder if there are any figures relating to the health of the nation's ears?

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 05:27 PM

Wha....

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 03:37 AM

If that "wha..." means that you don't recognise how much more noise there is in everyday life compared with only a few years ago, then I suggest that you have your ears tested!

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 04:05 AM

Meant I couldn't hear ya fer all the noise.

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 04:15 AM

God, I'm slow this morning!

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: pdq
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 07:46 AM

It's amazing how many of our "underpriviledged" types can find enough money to put 1000 watt amps and giant subwoofers in their cars when they don't have enough money to buy food.

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: Lox
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 09:18 AM

PDQ,

the people you are talking about who have 1000W amps can afford food. The ones without food don't have 1000w amps.

I know that often some well to do people and some poor people look the same, but it doesn't follow that they are all scamming the state.

A lot of young Asian men own cool looking cars with noisy stereo's and a recent survey showed that though they had low paying jobs, they could afford them because they didn't drink and were consequently able to save money unlike their white counterparts who were more likely to save their extra cash for nights out at the weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:00 AM

I agree. Peace and quiet is something I desperately crave. There is no quietness at any time of day or night

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:44 AM

I live in a provincial town centre street of Victorian Terraced Houses.

Hardly a week goes by without the constant stressful loud sounds
of drilling and power sawing,
as landlords and new home-owners build extensions
and convert old family houses into multiple occupancy flats.

ok, fair enough during weekdays..

But before 8.00 am on Saturday and Sunday mornings.. !!!???

bastards !!!!!!!!

Then there are the constantly barking dogs,
and loud screeching temper tantrums of small kids
as they play on the builders scaffolding all weekend..

.. and the petty street arguements and fights as their parents
drunkenly settle relationship & drug deal 'misunderstandings'..


However, if I were to dare to turn one of my low powered 5 watt valve amps up
beyond 2 on the volume knob to try to get a decent home recording tone..
whats the odds some spiteful old git selfish DIY enthusiast neighbour
would report me to the council anti-noise officials
maliciously hoping to get all my music gear confiscated.... ???

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: pdq
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:57 AM

...punkfolkrocker...

I feel your pain...and my home-made "valve amps" put an even nastier 16 watts...for shame...

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 01:17 AM

Even Juneau, Alaska, which has no factories or industry to speak of, is noisy. Rarely can I just stand there and listen to nothing but birds or the soughing of trees. If nothing else, there is almost always the muted roar of a generator or a gallumphing compressor, or some unexplained noise nearby.

On Sunday mornings it's the quietest. When I walk my dog on a Sunday morning, there is virtually no traffic, the revelers have all given up and gone to bed, the motorcyclists have swaggered their macho selves out of town (motorcycles are to travel as drums are to music. :) and the only people I see are other dog walkers. And we are a quiet bunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 06:01 AM

A while ago I started a serious thread about noise...

and How the Queensland Attorney General sent me a letter with gibbering nonsense about how my concern about deafening levels of (120dB(C) which registers as 60 dB(A)) music noise not being measured in dB(C) was unfounded, after all, dB(A) - which is how the legislation measures it, as dB(A) measures all notes in music, not just those in the scale of C major...

I'm not making this up, you know... :-)

And now all you qualified sound engineers can get up off the floor

Subject: RE: BS: Noise - next on the Agenda, please!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 08:05 AM

PS - After a little effort on my part...

that guy has now resigned from the post of Queensland Attorney General...

:-0