Doorbell Blues / December 15 2007
‘Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!’
That is what I hear about once every hour when someone calls at the house next door. My neighbour Mary has installed her special Christmas doorbell just as she did last year at this time and by the end of today I shall most likely have taken my favourite sledgehammer to it and smashed the bloody thing into little Chinese plastic smithereens.
I knew that there would inevitably be some sound isolation problems by moving the studio into the spare room but none could be more annoying than this little beauty. Ours is only a small terraced cottage and although the walls are of an old-fashioned and substantially hefty build – a good solid 18 inches of Derbyshire red brick – cheap and high-pitched electronic melodies from the Far East travel very well from one building to the next; indeed, so interminable and piercing are they that I fancy they can be heard from outer-space.
When you eventually get to hear some of the recordings that we are presently working on, listen out on some of the quieter vocal tracks for the annoyingly bleepy monotone refrain that goes: ‘Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open sleigh!’
Pure f***ing festive magic.
Filed under Annoyances / Audio Recording / Christmas / Complaining / Neighbours / Recording Studio
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3 comments on “Doorbell Blues”
Jo Beaufoix / December 17th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Maybe you could stick a sign on her door saying,
‘Please use back entrance.’
NB. No rude ripostes allowed.
Napoleon Fantastic / December 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Jo,
I wouldn’t like Mary or anybody using my back entrance - especially around this time of year - you know, what with the cold and everything.
Jo Beaufoix / December 17th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hee hee.
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