I wish we lived in a world where bad neighbors were sent to live with bad neighbors. Bad neighbors always have the luxury of living around good neighbors. That needs to change.

I had a similar experience with neighbors. There were, at least 8 people, including 2 toddlers, living above me, in a 2 bedroom apartment. The landlord was awful and did nothing. The children would regularly be up and running until 3-4am. The adults would have regular gambling sessions. Anytime I went up to talk with them they acted as if they didn't speak english (literally). This was happening within the first month of me living there. I would spend my sleeping hours online looking for ways out of my lease. Turns out, it's far more simple than you might think, despite what your landlord might tell you. I would first suggest buying a security camera that that also records sound and is backed by an online database of some sort. Every time you hear noises that are "out of control" be sure to WRITE AN EMAIL to your landlord. Not call. Not text. EMAIL. If your landlord calls you, let it go to voicemail. My landlord took me to court after I broke my lease. He didn't know I had been documenting everything for around 5 months. I had literal days worth of footage with near non-stop noise. Accompanied by emails letting him know about the problem and voicemails with his response, all with the clause in the lease agreement that had a rule against excessive noise, which was grounds for eviction if it was recurrent. My lawyer suggested we counter-sue. I ended up getting 2 months rent back, plus the security deposit.

After living in apartments for years, I bought a small house and vowed to NEVER live in an apartment again in EVER. After months of harassment (like in your situation) I got so stressed out, that I developed shingles & had to be hospitalized. RENTERS have no rights !

I've learned with bad neighbors you can't ask them politely to stop doing something because then they're just gonna do it ten fold just to irritate you for asking. I had a neighbor that loved his system in his car a little too much. He'd come home at 3am shaking everyone's houses and then he'd sit in his car like that until the song ended before he shut it off and went inside leaving me and my wife the task of getting a 2 year old and a newborn at the time back to sleep. Luckily he's gone now and our kids can get their sleep.

That’s brilliant, you’re not creating any noise you’re simply giving it back to them

People definitely lose it. I know I did when this was happening to me. Noise is in fact a torture tecnique that has been used by the military for decades.

The clearest indication of class is the level of noise they produce.

I'd much rather lug groceries to the top floor than live with people above me.

I enjoyed this video purely because of how much he enjoyed telling it

The same story with me- I asked them to stop stomping her feet and she answered that this is how she walks normally.... After I asked I regret for asking.... they started jumping with full force while screaming simultaneously, moving the fridge and furniture in 2 am with insane noise..... now I play 10 hour of drilling machine sound effect and its all good :)

"I thought the earthquake was her" 😂😂😂

Another one of the worst effects of going through this is when you mention this to your family, friend, therapist, etc. and they automatically have to assume you’re being petty or don’t get why this bothers me. But this is torturous. And watching the videos and reading stories of others going through this resonates with me deeply. I can feel their anxiety and astonishment and the psychological impact it has on them - just like it does on me. Others will never know what you’re going through. In every case, it wasn’t until they came over to my place and experienced it first-hand that they reacted just like me and were shocked. And then I get mad inside for them not believing me in the first place. And I’m not even one with a reputation of being irrational for them not to believe me! Have been going through this for three years. There’s some improvement, but work has to be constantly done to control and remind the neighbors (who happens to be the LANDLORD) that NOTHING CHANGES!

Its ridiculous how these managers allow the bad tenants to stay and the good usually leave because they just will not evict these people. I'm going through a similar situation (however not as bad as yours).

He’s so proud. He’s a genius. I know his pain.

"you just kinda loose it.. I've been there" lol I know that that feeling all too well. Had noisy neighbors under me who left their TV on 24/7 with the bass turned wayyy up. After many polite notes, calls to management and the cops with no avail I just lost it... I managed to find the breaker box for their specific apartment. Every night before I went to bed I would shut their power off and laugh my ass off listening to them trying to figure out what happened

These comments are like a support group for me. Good to know I'm not alone !

A few years back my former wife and I moved into an upstairs apartment and shortly after these little 20 year old punks moved in downstairs. They would party evvvvery single night. Loud music, yelling etc. I had asked them to quiet down several times and even went as far as having to call the police on them a lot. The landlord refused to do anything about it. One night they were blasting music at 11pm and I had just about had enough. Everyone in the entire building had had enough of this too. I made a few calls to some friends who compete in car audio bass competitions (whatever they’re called lol) and they called their friends, their friends called their friends. Before I knew it we had four or five car audio subwoofer boxes in every single room all facing the floor, amps, and everything. I think they were powered by car battery chargers? Anyways every night they were blasting their music, I would play the most obnoxious stuff I could find and would literally shake the entire building. Pictures were rattling off the walls, things were falling and breaking and it was just great lol. A few nights later and after about the 10th time of listening to Limp Bizkit “The Nookie” on repeat a couple of them actually came upstairs to ask ME to turn it down and words were exchanged and I thought we had a truce.... so everything was dismantled and the audio equipment went back to its individual owners. I had won! It was finally over!!! Until one night a few days later. I had come home from a 15hr shift working on the hot sun to a car in every parking space (they even took my spot and I was forced to park on the street) and this HUGE rager going on in the downstairs apartment. They were louder than ever, there was more people than ever and their music was bumping louder than ever as well. I walked into my apartment with my heavy steel toe boots on and could hear the loud music and the majority of the noice coming from the kitchen area. All 220lbs of me walked into my kitchen and proceeded to jump up and down as hard as I could BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! All I could hear was screaming lol. That’s when this heffapotamus stomped up the stairs banging my door down and screaming “you wanna come down here and clean up all the glass you just broke!?!?” And that’s when I realized we all have huge hanging glass chandeliers in our kitchens lol. According to the police that came shortly after, I had broken their chandelier and sent shards of broken glass raining down on everyone in their kitchen. HA! Nothing ever came of it except for a mail out from the landlord about being respectful to your neighbors and blah blah blah. Shortly after they moved out and so did we as we were already looking at a house. Just the image of broken glass raining down on everyone still makes me giggle a little bit to this day. Since then I’ve only had my one recent sucky neighbor I share a wall with. Every night he has his sound system blasting. So I bought a saxophone... I have no freakin idea how to play one but it’s still fun to “practice” as loud as I can while facing his bedroom wall every night he pulls that crap.

Had the same problem with a neighbor when I was in the service. After many failed attempts at some civil conversation and about 10 complaints to the building manager I decided to do something about it. Unbeknownst to my neighbor I know a thing or two about electricity and the service panel for his unit was on the outside of the building. So one night after knocking to discuss the noise with no answer I removed the 200 amp service cut-off breaker for his unit and threw it in the woods. Next night, new breaker lots of noise and the same result, another breaker in the woods. Few days later new breaker, loud noise, same result, another expensive service breaker in the woods. The third time was the charm as the apartment manager was tired of replacing breakers and I denied any involvement, which of course they knew what I was doing. August in Texas with no air-conditioning can be a powerful motivational tool. Last time I had problems with noise from the neighbor.

The joy you still get while telling this story is extremely contagious :)

I was staying in a motel once while waiting to move into my house when I had the pleasure of listening to some young people next door who thought it was funny to wake everyone up by doing things such as repeatedly pressing the button on their car alarm keychain thingy at 2 AM. I could hear them laughing about it in the next room. It was game on! I just happened to have a boom box. I put it up on the dresser with the speakers against the wall, threw in some serious death metal shit that was so hardcore even I didn't like it after 3 minutes, then maxed out the volume and set it on repeat. I'm fairly certain they were not the rock and roll type. I then surrounded it with all the pillows and blankets from the other bed, all the towels and even some of my clothes. It was quite the pile. You could barely hear it over the air conditioner! At least some of us got some sleep that night. I'm pretty sure I won the asshole contest.

I lost my mind so many times that I can’t even count. It comes to a point in which you start questioning if people are complete jerks or if you are the jerk yourself. I also believe that I am so afraid of this happening that I end up attracting these nasty people. I have had so many of this kind as my upstairs neighbours that I got to a point that I am in complete despair. Maybe I should go live in a cave.

So about five years ago I had some really shitty neighbors who were always making noise at ungodly hours. I'm the quiet type and these people really set my teeth on edge. one day I bought a cheap USB powered mini vacuum cleaner for my computer keyboard, it turned out to be the worst pile of cheap Chinese crap ever but it was also the greatest revenge machine I've ever seen. When you used the vacuum cleaner it would cause every other electrical device in a ten yard radius to lose signal or put so much interference in the signal stream that they became horrible to watch or listen to. A few days passed and my horrible neighbors decided to make noise all day Friday, bad luck for them because I was leaving that afternoon to go visit family for the weekend and I had devilish plan in mind. I found some USB extension cables and a USB power adapter, I taped the vacuum cleaner to the ceiling of my apartment (they lived above me) and turned it on. Almost instantly I heard them shouting at each other from different rooms because their cell phones/TV/PC/radio you name it had developed problems. Three days later when I came home all was deathly quiet, I later found out that after tearing their place apart looking for the cause of the problem and discovering nothing they were forced to sit and talk to each other like humans for a change, they soon discovered that they didn't like each other and broke up, the jerkface boyfriend moved out first and the work shy girl moved out a short while later.

i use the power of suggestion ... i had bad neighbors too so one day while they were all outside i took a box of salt and some chicken bones into the street in front of their house ( i am native american ) so i took the salt made a circle cast the bones and started my own ghost dance around the circle singing gibberish to them while spitting in the circle .... they watched in amusement and when i finished i turned to them and told them from this day forward all the evil hateful things the do to others will come back on them with no mercy and their children until they learn respect for others . i told them ... every time evil comes your way know that you have brought it upon your selves and to remember the circle it turns two ways , if they do good to others it will return good to them ... they laughed but a few days later i got an apology and from then on i had no problems with them ....hocus pocus .... works every time

Years ago, I knew a family whose neighbours were like that. Their speciality was door slamming. No just going in and out of their apartment, but the interior doors, too. 😦

I fired a trident missle into my neighbors house and it worked just fine.

Great solution. When I had the same problem from some people.... From south of the U.S. who were music lovers... My solution was similar. I took a steel 55 gallon drum and wrapped the bottom and around it with a very heavy tarp. I strapped it to a metal cart, on it's side... On the inside I hung a one foot square, steel plate on a chain, so it rang nicely when hit with metal. Then I welded a steel hub, with chains and 1/2" nuts, that I fastened to an electric motor. One morning, very early, after my 'neighbors' had a very late night party with loud fucking, annoying music, I turned the beast on.... It was perfect! In front of the open barrel, your fucking ears would bleed! They begged me to turn it off! No fucking way! It was my music, and my turn to listen to my music. I only really had to use it twice.... But I used it a fucking bunch out of angry retaliation and revenge... Fuck 'em!

I left apartment living for a house because I dealt with this so often. I have high anxiety and am on the autism spectrum, so noise sensitivity is a major issue for me. Unfortunately, a year after the move into my new home the house next door became a rental property and was rented out to a group of stereotypes. Do you know how garbage someone has to be to be so loud you can hear them in your house, a completely separate building over thirty feet away?

i was in a duplex with idiots like that, car alarm going off all day and constant wall thumping. I stopped it by simply using an emergency air horn in the attic, aimed at their bedroom. .... using that to wake them up in the middle of their sleep was far more effective than any arguing or begging

Going through the same hell myself with my upstairs neighbors stomping and actually brawling. They get into severe fights that they actually body slam each other. I live in a basement apartment with drop ceilings you can imagine what that sounds like. To top it off they threaten me with violence when i confront them about it. Cops been out like 5 times and they say they can't do anything without proof. Landlord called like 20 times in 3 months and FINALLY FINALLY i am moving october 1st to another apartment that is UPSTAIRS. It got close to me being locked up. Honestly i don't believe humans are supposed to live that close to each other unless they are related or married. You know what is crazy...even in a prison you wouldn't hear this noise going on. You deserve peace where you live. This will be the last apartment i rent because im saving up for my own property in the country.

I had the same problem with an upstairs neighbor years ago. My solution was quite simple. I took an old broom handle, 1 large unused toilet plunger, 1 home style fire alarm the round type, a spring loaded button, a nine volt battery, and some wire. When assembled you have a portable noise machine. It was a very handy device when you want to sleep. So your idiot neighbor is running a marathon in their apartment at 0300? Place the pole on the ceiling and, just give them a nice long loud BEEEEEEEEPPPP!!!!!

I’ve always wanted to record the noise from my next door neighbours and play it back when THEY were trying to sleep. Awesome.

This is hilarious! I did the same thing, years ago, when I got sick of my neighbour's barking dog. I was playing my guitar while it was barking and could hear the bark through my delay... and that's when I got the idea to mic the dog and run it's bark through a P.A. on my deck at like volume 11. The dog went absolute apeshit and every neighbour on the block laid a complaint to animal control. Solved the problem in 2 days.

Glad it worked out for you I've been in those situations and it really takes a toll on you mentally and physically.

For the fact that I'm actually watching a video on noisy neighbors is pathetic to me. I don't know how I seem to always have this type of problem. It's always something. So bad. I really don't understand how people can move into a place and have such blatant disrespect for such a long period of time. I'm planning my revenge and it's going to be sweet, though....thanks for generating some ideas.

My neighbors has 7 kids who constantly scream and cry. I'm on the verge of jumping off the bridge. I have a very stressful job and need peace and quiet but get none.

During this 6 years i've lived in this apartment there's been 5 people moving in and out of the second floor. I don't know how people manage to move out so quickly of this house but i will happily smile every time i see the moving trucks. For all these years i've had extreme neighbors. Drug addicts, families, drug dealers, and horrible horrible false old people which turned out to be thieves. The floors and ceilings here are so paper thin that it's insane. These latest neighbors are for sure the most insane and immature kind of people i've ever experienced. They, as adult people hang out with youngsters in the age range of 16-17 years old teenager. The neighbors has kids too. Every day (Except for babysitting days thank god) i will hear the stomping, the playing, the screaming, the music, the running up and down stairs. They will play with skateboards,bikes,balls, everything and the little ones are hanging and slamming on closets and they'll do it INSIDE, ON TOP OF MY BEDROOM but never do i see them spend their days outside in this perfect garden we're trying to maintain. They will fall asleep with the tv on as loud as possible so that even i know what kind of show they are watching. Sometimes they will think it's hilarous to put the volume on 100 as they watch their kids shows. The neighbors will stay up and invite people even at 3 in the night. The kids will stay up too. I have an entire folder of recordings and documentation of them and showed it to the landlady. I just hope that she will manage to do something about this. It's a neverending feeling of stress in this house. Not being able to sleep at 1-3 sometimes because of the noise and then waking up at 8-9 in the morning because of even more sound. When i saw this video, with the mic, i could only empathize with you. thinking of the situation when i myself had to climb the tables and the bed in order to reach out my mic near the ceiling just to document all this crap that's been happening in this house. I hope that I too will get rewarded some day in the future with "the sound of silence".

quarantine and noisy neighbors. What could be worse!

"I thought the earthquake was her" I'M DEAD LMAOOOO

Years later, I came back for another laugh today and this did not disappoint lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The noise they were complaining about was only their noise, put back on them.. If they are quiet, no noise. Damn brilliant. One of the best retaliations I've seen yet. 🤣🤣

Man, you are an inspiration! Had the exact same idea, but it was way beyond my technical abilities to implement it. Good to know you got some payback.

Love this vid: Nightmare neighbours who stomp & make a load of noise are the worst type of people ever. In my experience the only option you have is to move. Landlords do nothing ( wheather it be private or a housing association) I`m from the uk & landlords only care about one thing....`The Rent`. Environmental health will do nothing, police will do nothing, keep telling the neighbour to sort it out does nothing. Landords also don`t care if the neighbour is a crack addict, trash their properties or treat it like a squat, they are only interested in....THE RENT. After watching this you now have only two options 1. Move. 2: build an instant karma machine

this is why im happy that my closest neighbour is about a mile away (i live in the finnish countryside)

When I was in college I had a few neighbors like this - party every night, walls shaking until 4-5am, and I worked 2 jobs so I NEEDED my sleep to make it through those plus classes. Fortunately one of my jobs was at Sound Advice, and well... I've always been somewhat of a hi-fidelity nut. (Test speakers with classical and Jazz, because if they can handle THAT they can play anything well.) My solution? Lean 2x 15" speakers and 4x 12"/6" paired mains against their wall, set the volume to about -7 on a 2500w amp and start a playlist beginning with 2 minutes silence followed by the 1812 overture. If you were halfway down the stairs (3rd floor) you could still feel the cannons firing through your bones vibrating. (I'd tried several times to handle it politely but that was the only method that seemed to work.) I also set it up with a sound sensor so it'd do it again every time they broke 70db on my side of the wall in the middle of the room while my system was in "waiting" mode. That way I wouldn't accidentally trigger it during the payback. Basically just used a 5min delay after activation. (The legal limit was 55 or 60 depending on what day/time so that was double the limit already.) Had THEM call the cops once out of anger because I was spoiling their partying (on a Tuesday nonetheless) and explained my side, showed them my equipment, had THEM call in their own techs and measure the sound levels, showing that my system only triggered when theirs was extreme and mine was short-lived (about 2-3 minutes when triggered) and would go silent again afterwards. It worked. They started partying elsewhere after about 3 months of this. Oh and I have NO PROBLEM sleeping with earplugs in if that's what it takes. And sometimes it did. But... we're talking a system that at -5 was almost breaking windows, so... no real contest. New neighbors just moved in 2 months ago where my wife and I currently live, and I've been thinking about this possibly being necessary again. My wife works from home and speaks to a lot of clients of Limo companies and other luxury services, and the neighbors have been so loud lately (getting drunk and playing country music while skipping song to song) that the clients have been asking what the noise is. That's at the opposite end of the house, too. May have to drop something like an EON15 or other "lesser" speaker in the attic pointing out the side vent this time. (Already got a subwoofer in the room closest to them.) Hmm... do I have a long enough speakon cable? Might have to wire a new one...

I need this. I havnt slept well for 2 months in this apartment we moved into. I HATE IT!!

i haven't lived in apt much but for school away for awhile, i finally encountered one of those horrid neighbors. they kept jumping on my ceiling to the pt where bulbs would flicker and die out. there's even a crack in the ceiling. that's how often and hard they landed. i was getting headaches and nausea bc of the constant shaking which i believe is from disorientation and the eardrums ringing. when i went to talk to them, they claimed "we can't control it playing with small kids". i finally came up with a counter that actually works. whenever they start stomping, i play loud gangster rap with as many curses as possible. "magically" it stops every time. ofc this was for my specific case. i kept thinking of the IK system but luckily found a cheap solution

Hence, I live in the country, neighbors far away, noise comes from birds and crickets.

I believe we had the same neighbors. My landlord walked me through and every room had multiple holes in the wall, scribbled graffiti everywhere (not just from children either), all the doors ripped off hinges (kitchen cabinets, closets, bathroom), cabinet drawer pulled out. The only door in place was the entrance. They even made the attic a living space and, oddly, pulled out much of the insulation. I was about to go nuts. I did call the police several times with the only relief being the moments the police were there. What helped me was going to a friend's house. He was playing games through his stereo - all the loud noises practically shook his house. I went home, put my studio monitors on the floor, facing up, and shook the building for about thirty minutes looping a loud video game demo on a Saturday night. Their kids were crying (which I didn't feel great about) but they suddenly stopped and each time they would get loud again I would repeat the process, matching their decibel level.

Just when I thought I was the only one going through living with loud, inconsiderate neighbors!

I need this, my upstairs neighbor is a despicable human being. I've also tried to go through the normal legal process but since she is the daughter of the landlord she's "untouchable".

When I lived in a thinwall duplex the neighbor would blast thier crappy sterio set on a radio station that sounded like it had tin cans for speakers so loud you could hear it at an annoying loud level anywhere in my place. The solution...... There use to be a kids toy called "mr microphone" that was a low power FM transmitter built into a housing that looked like a crappy knock off of of the classic ball mike with a real sorry mike. As I was doing electronics stuff in those days I took it apart and "tuned" it to radio station they always had going and put a pot between the mike and transmitter, and added a small relay that would turn on the transmitter. There was just enough gain in the audio amp part to drive the relay when the level got high enough. I just hooked up a wall wart as a power supply and securely attached the mike to my wall directly behind that sterio. I waited until they were gone one time ( with that radio still blasting) and just cranked up the audio gain until I got a nice case of audio feedback going. I waited until they turned it way down and lowered the gain until it wouldn't trip the transmitter on. EVERY time they cranked up that stereo you got this horrendous case of feedback going. The sound was a mix of crappy speakers, some distortion due to the wall and that cheap ass mike in it that looked like it was some sort of a pizo. . Over the next couple months they took that stereo to a shop 5 times I know of. Nothing wrong with it as far as how it worked. They never did find out why it started the horrible squealing at their "favorite" listening level but sounded somewhat decent at a normal level. They finally moved after a couple months.. :) They never did figure it out... lolol

I’m at war with my upstairs neighbor right now and put a large Bluetooth speaker on the top of a ladder playing “STFU” by pink guy on repeat

God I can sympathize with this. Got a terribly nasty horrible neighbor who keeps me up at night as well.

If only I could do this to the upstairs nightmares I deal with. 3 very heavy set (All at least 280+ pounds) oafs just moved in a few months ago and they barely work and hardly ever leave their apartment. Even though it's a 2 bedroom apartment, they ALL sleep in the bedroom above mine and would wake me up so much throughout the night with their belligerent stomping and lapping the bedroom and attached bathroom at 4:30 am that I had to start sleeping with ear plugs--and sometimes I even hear them over the ear plugs. Funny thing is, whenever I even make the slightest bit of noise, they get all pissy, yet they literally sound like a herd of wild African elephants, especially when the women wear high heels. The lightbulb in my chandelier shakes and management says it's normal apartment noise..yeah, right.

Reading this after having been woken up 3x tonight. Glad someone is sleeping now.

I often wonder why there are so many crazy people these days. Drugs? And you're so right...you end up kind of losing it with noisy neighbors

I need that for the annoying people above me, it's 11:29 and she is pounding around like she's at a rick concert.... I have a small child and a husband with a bad back who has a hard enough time sleeping with his pain. i dont understand how people can be so rude.

That's the best noisy neighbour payback device I've heard of so far! :-)

This is the best invention i've ever seen. My god i need one ASAP. I have demon children above me that have quite literally raised my blood pressure

LMFAO. Its 2024 and I STILL LOVE this video. And your "machine" 😂

I have a noisy neighbor below me. Nothing but constant thumps and slams and something that makes my floor shake. Loud voices etc. I've been complaining to the property manager and was told if it continues they will start eviction proceedings. I live in a building with about 15 apartments and I always cringe when a new tenant moves in because you don't know if they are going to be quiet like they should be (living in an old building that isn't insulated should be their first clue), or if they are going to be playing loud music or yelling and partying all the time. The guy below me doesn't work because he gets benefits from the state (yep), so I have decided that if he isn't evicted and I keep going to work tired, I have an old box fan. I am going to remove the motor and mount it to a board, remove the fan blade and attach a leather strap. I will then plug it into a timer so that it will come on 1/2 hour after I leave for work. The strap will be slapping my floor/his ceiling over his bedroom. It will be on for 30 minutes, then off for 30 minutes, etc. Until I get home from work. In effect, I am going to train him to stay awake during the day and sleep during the night like it should be.

I feel you. I am going through war right now with my upstairs neighbors. They love to drop bowling balls at all hours of the day and I think they both weigh 900 lbs each because they stomp like giants. I've officially gone crazy.

Excellent execution Brett, I've had idle ideas about doing something similar myself to my own upstairs horrors via an IK Machine, so it's good to see it worked.

Brett, I am so happy to have found your video. Although I have not lived in an apartment for well over 35 years my suburban neighborhood has become a horrible place to live since the college in town as expanded exponentially. As more and more of the houses become college rentals, the noise just increase with partying, loud exhausts, and sub woofers in cars. I have already had one heart attack and I fear for my health as my existence is bombarded 24/7 with noise. My wife and i are seriously considering moving far out of this wretched area. At 63, I am sick and tired of BS. In the mean time, I would love to fight back some and blast these offender with noise as you have here. I was reading about a device called an LRAD but that would be way out of my price range. I wish I could buy or make something similar to this device.

Nice that you turned lemons into lemonade! 😂

Our neighborhood of single family houses was invaded by new neighbors who made their house into a boarding house. They had 15 men living in the basement on beds made of old stacked tires and plywood. There was bunkbeds in the garage and 4 more guys lived there. This was a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom house built in 1950. So they had 19 renters, a dad, a grandpa, a mom, 2 small kids, a great dane and 2 yorkshire terriers living there. Every weekend they partied in their front yard until 3 or 4am, drunk as skunks, hooting and screaming obscenities. All the neighbors had asked them nicely to be quiet, many of us had to work on Saturdays, and they were waking up our kids. No reply or stopping the noise. So one Saturday about 6 am we all took our lawnmowers out and slowly mowed our lawns. Same thing on Sunday, and every other weekend for the next 4 weeks. Our lawns looked great and the noise all weekend stopped (for the most part).

I feel your pain, I live next to two horrible people...they dedicate 8h on making noise just to annoy us, late at night and early in the morning. They live off government benefits, so they really have nothing better to do :/ Some people are just horrible. Two weeks ago I almost had a mental breakdown brought on by sleep deprivation.

I've done the speaker on the ceiling think but I never thought of the mics and the delay. That is brilliant! Great job mate!

Ho-ly Jebus, my last upstairs neighbors drove me to visualizing this exact system and I thought I had gone over the deep end, it's incredibly satisfying to see it actually brought to life.

I love your joy coming out of this

That sounds crazy! Bad neighbors are evil.

Thanks for sharing Brett. You're a good man.

I'm going through the same crap with my upstairs neighbors. They're very large people and I"m terrified that one day they're gonna come crashing through the floor and land on me in my sleep and kill me.

Instant Karma Machine!! I LOVE IT!! I have a rude neighbor who lives upstairs from me. He walks heavy and the floor creaks and he wakes me up at 5AM and bangs shit and makes so much damn noise. He's so rude and inconsiderate!!

I've been there myself, several times. And your instant karma machine is exactly what I need - and have thought about! I just don't have the technical knowledge to put it together especially in that I would need directional mics and directional speakers. (it's across the road where the problem is) But yeah, being woken up all the time sucks especially when it's intentional.

This video should never be removed from internet. It is the knockout blow.

Made a similar thing years ago for a neighbor that would sick their dogs on my kids. To be fair, there was a tall fence, but it was pretty mean to scare 6 & 7 year old kids like that. 180 watts of ultrasound, ceramic-tweeters, big red button for the kids to push. When they let the dogs out, my kids would hit the button, and for 8 seconds the dogs howled and tried to claw their way back inside. Not the dogs fault, I know, and I know it was cruel. City cited the dogs owner with cruelty after other neighbors complained of the howling. Only had to use the thing four times and the dogs wised up: attack kids = pain.

I left a polite note under my upstairs neighbor's door and they never blasted their music again.

Excellent, poetry in motion. Did the same thing with my studio setup once :)

"Living inside a drum" was exactly the words repeating in my mind a year ago before even watching this video.

What i don't understand is that was probably them walking around to make all that noise( apart from slamming doors and yelling). But how people can walk and be so noisy. i'm 6'5 and 265 pounds and i don't make a god damn sound when i walk. my old upstairs neighbor was 5'0 and maybe 120 lbs. it sounded like a heard of elephants walking above me.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure she lives next to me now!

Absolutely genius idea. I've had a few awful upstairs neighbors so I know your pain!

my family and I am going through it now and attacked by them. Despite it all, I know we are good people and my family and I am staying strong......seeing videos of others going through it in the past or present makes me feel that we aren't the only ones going through it. Thanks for the video handsome.

I had a family with 4 kids and 2 parents above me, and i worked nights at the time, I was sleeping in my garage needless to say I closed off my apt to a joining apts and got back with a dirty video at 200watts and needless to say they were quiet for about a week, soon they were evicted and during their time sleeping i was getting ready for work, i would pound the walls enough to wake them, give it time for them to fall back asleep, and a quick rap on the walls again... just as pay back, I was lucky the super was around one day and caught them at their best which I'm sure that was what got them evicted, i was paying 2200.00 a month and could literally not sleep in my apt, soon after I started renting a house and thats the best way to rent

I'm so glad you made this video, because I've been in a similar situation. And I felt so marginal, like that I must be the crazy one. Hearing you sound so reasonable intelligent and collected its validating, thank you

good story. good job! technology can often be useful in dealing with the all-too-common horrible neighbor. I know many of you can relate. I sure can.

Your video really cheered me up even though i've not yet found a solution to deal with the bunch of gremlins who leave next door to me! Thanks for that ;)

HOW COME YOU HAVENT MADE A VIDEO ON A STEP BT STEP ON HOW TO MAKE THAT SYSTEM?

Too bad we didn't see a demonstration. The thought of it is a priceless work of fuck you ingenuity.

Would've loved to see more of this actually working! Great idea.

I have some similar issue, I tried to record it with my phone the noise but it didn't work. I wonder, do you think a phonometer could record what my upstairs neighbour does? Is there a device that record vibration too? Because my floor shakes as they jump up and down.

I'm a simpleton. Every time i heard loud music and they wouldn't stop i'd go and steal their electric fuse 😂

You're my Hero. I'm dealing with the same kind of upstairs neighbours. My Subwoofer System on the roof is now running. #karma

This video helped me to calm down and realize my neighbor really isn't that bad. ;) THANK YOU MAN!

Absolutely brilliant - I love it!

Wonderful. I'd have one. I've been woken up by stomping at 3am twice this week.

True man . I am going through same shit. I don't have money to buy those expensive speakers etc. Just hoping one day karma will hit them hard.

Your video made me crack up. I wish I had that equipment to do this. Genius

Interesting. What is the approximate cost of such a system? What kind of speakers did you mount? Which microphones do you use to pick up the sound? How do you get them to not pick up the sounds your are sending back to them?