The Quiet Site

Looking to relocate to Chicago? Make sure you check out the new Sunset Woods apartment complex. Set to reveal itself during a grand opening on March 22nd, the apartment building features some incredible amennities you’ll want to see.

Take, for example, the underground parking center and state of the art security system. There’s also an on-site laundry facility and a fitness center.

Our favorite perk? Incredible soundproofing – ensuring you can enjoy your new home in peace and quiet, day or night!

Montauk’s famous Surf Lodge is in trouble.

After receiving several complaints about noise, the East Hampton Town Hall hosted a meeting last week to discuss noise concerns and whether or not the lodge would have its live music permit revoked.

The Surf Lodge is a hot summer nightspot, usually featuring music on an outdoor deck. Residents complain about noise, traffic, and some even fear the club’s septic system isn’t large enough to handle the capacity in the club.

The council is currently only addressing noise concerns. The Surf Lodge took a sound engineer to the meeting, offering a soundproofing plan they believe will significantly reduce noise this summer.

Time will tell the fate of the Surf Lodge.

The music building at the University of Pennsylvania underwent some major changes over the past year. While students enjoyed walking through the halls, hearing the sounds of vocal performances and musical instruments they were often thwarted by one problem – sound from outside.

The new building features three formal classrooms, nine new rooms dedicated to practice, a state of the art recording studio, and a computer lab. The building was, of course, modeled with state of the art soundproofing materials – ensuring the sounds of helicopters and ambulances in this bustling district are no longer a disturbance.

The airport at Rotorua has some problems. First they had to battle a change in flight plans based on a nearby neighbor’s refusal to cut down his trees. Now, the Te Arawa Hapu is protesting flight paths because the airplanes will cause a considerable amount of noise as they fly over the marae – the ancestral homes fo the Ngati Uenukukopako people.

Neighbors protested and the protest was eventually called off after the council agreed to arrange a meeting, slated for the end of March, to discuss soundproofing and other concerns. Sometimes we wonder if the reopening of this particular airport was really worth the effort.

The Bay View area recording studio in Milwaukee, known as the Tannery Recording Studio, just ropened. The studio had a great reputation as a top-notch place to make recordings but after a while the owners recognized the need to make some changes.

After remodeling and renovations, the studio is better than ever before. There is now a window between the control room and the ercording studio and the soundproofing throughout the entire building is better than ever before! This is definitely the place you want to go to make music!

The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago has plans for a major expansion. After purchasing a piece of property across from its current location, they plan to move forward with the construction of a new building. It’ll be complete with classrooms, reasonably sized practice halls, and a new theater.

The current school houses 7,000 students every week and many are turned away due to lack of space. The new building, complete with proper soundproofing, will ensure that doesn’t happen again.

A group of NYC residents is relatively annoyed. Brick Underground did a  survey of around 500 residents asking them whether or not they could hear their neighbors – at night – uh… being intimate.

Some were concerned because they went as far as to pay for extra soundproofing before buying units in multi-level dwellings. Others simply blame it on thin NYC walls. But what’s the real problem?

People are simply inconsiderate – at all hours of the day – and they’re loud. You might need to consider extra soundproofing – or you might need to let your neighbors know they need to upgrade theirs!