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Re:Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021) by BolexNOLA on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:32PM (#30983930)
It drives me absolutely insane. I can’t record audio virtually anywhere unless I treat the hell out of the room. I shouldn’t have to turn my room into a soundproof bunker to be able to record some voiceovers. It’s ridiculous.

My previous home office had spray foam insulation with double layer sheet rock and bass traps on the walls, yet I still had to have a small homemade box around the microphone when I was doing any sort of voice work that wasn’t more informal.

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Re:Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021) by fossuser on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:36PM (#30983956)
Yeah - the joke is people say they move to suburbs to get 'peace and quiet' compared to a loud city, but city life is so much quieter (at least where I live). I'm sure that's not always the case, but I really hated the lawn equipment.

Sure in a city a loud motorcycle may go by, but that's like 10 seconds of noise? Compared to a revving leaf blower for an hour (and usually there are a bunch of them going).

They're even banned in Palo Alto, but it's not enforced.

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Re:Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021) by cgriswald on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:14AM (#30984596)
> They're even banned in Palo Alto, but it's not enforced.

They only banned gas-powered blowers and they seem to rely on citizens to report use.

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