monitors in an apartment?

[eenzo]

Hey guys!

I've been producing for a while on headphones and I want to make the jump to monitors (my school has monitors and they make a huuuge difference in how much producing I can do at one time, and they just make the whole process so much more enjoyable). The problem is that I live in an apartment. The walls are pretty thick (its a rather old building i think) but I'm still scared that I'm going to get noise complaints left and right. How do you deal with this? Am I crazy?

[Terpit]

Just dont play anything too loud

[travis_baker]

Hey guys!

I've been producing for a while on headphones and I want to make the jump to monitors (my school has monitors and they make a huuuge difference in how much producing I can do at one time, and they just make the whole process so much more enjoyable). The problem is that I live in an apartment. The walls are pretty thick (its a rather old building i think) but I'm still scared that I'm going to get noise complaints left and right. How do you deal with this? Am I crazy?

no ask next door if they mind and or what an appropriate time is. theres nothing worst than producing at low levels, it just dosnt work. use headphones late at night

[AxeD]

I'd say you need at least 75 - 80dB going for proper monitoring.
Try to learn the room's acoustics. I guess they could be decent for monitoring, but that's not very likely.

[DubMikey]

If the walls are pretty thick as you say they are, it shouldn't be that big of a problem. Now, I don't have any monitors, however, my mom is a pretty huge fan of cracking the volume up to it's max while partying late at night with nothing but elderly people living around us. And, our walls are paper thin, I can even hear my neighbour listening to some choir shit early every morning.