Mar 09, 2011 4:54 AM GMT
Something in some unit above or below my bedroom rattles the CRAP out of me at night, waking me up sometimes. I'm guessing it could be a heater or AC unit. My roommate can't hear it. But it's deafening to me.
I plugged in my microphone and I recorded the ambience when I didn't hear the sound and when I did hear the sound and here's the results.
Here's the EQ spectrum the microphone picked up from absolute silence and from where I heard the vibration.
Please interpret these as relative to each other and not as absolutes. In other words the microphone could have picked up something else adding to the ambience or subtracted something due to it's position and sensitivity. But the results are clear, and I LITERALLY counted the oscillations and found out that there's something rattling my walls, floor, and bed at a horrifying 27 Hz. That is so low that most adults will not hear that as sound as much as they will feel the pressure on their ears somehow and on their body. In fact, I didn't hear it at all but definitely FELT it and didn't like it at all.
My question is do I have the right to make this person stop this vibrating or make them move it if I find the culprit? I'm pretty sure if they move it to a different location the harmonic vibrations will shift and hopefully it won't be as resounding in my bedroom.
I plugged in my microphone and I recorded the ambience when I didn't hear the sound and when I did hear the sound and here's the results.
Here's the EQ spectrum the microphone picked up from absolute silence and from where I heard the vibration.
Please interpret these as relative to each other and not as absolutes. In other words the microphone could have picked up something else adding to the ambience or subtracted something due to it's position and sensitivity. But the results are clear, and I LITERALLY counted the oscillations and found out that there's something rattling my walls, floor, and bed at a horrifying 27 Hz. That is so low that most adults will not hear that as sound as much as they will feel the pressure on their ears somehow and on their body. In fact, I didn't hear it at all but definitely FELT it and didn't like it at all.
My question is do I have the right to make this person stop this vibrating or make them move it if I find the culprit? I'm pretty sure if they move it to a different location the harmonic vibrations will shift and hopefully it won't be as resounding in my bedroom.
