Few years ago I was with my girlfriend in Barcelona in a cheap hotel and waking up one morning my gf told me the couple next door had been banging earlier that morning. After a while she turned away from me and continued to sleep. As I couldn't quite go out of the room and just tell my gf "you know what, I'm gonna see if I can't record them and post it online" I just quietly took my phone, pressed record in the audio recorder app and hoped for the best. And yes, I could hear them going at it faintly from the wall. At first, I didn't think I had recorded anything listening to the file, but amplifying it gave some good noises in the background. After playing in Audacity a bit, I've come up with a file I'm quite happy about myself. Judge for yourself...
Barcelona hotel 1.mp3
I also have the original file, so If someone wants to have a go at noise reduction himself, I can send it over
Last edited by pontifex13 on 15 Feb 2014 16:33, edited 1 time in total.
Now for the second part
A few minutes, my gf wakes up and tells me she's gonna have a shower. I say I want to sleep a bit more and have a shower later
So after the water starts runnning, I slip out of our room and go nextdoor where I can place my phone just near the slit under their door => Bullseye baby!
Unofrtunately, near the end of the recording, I hear a disturbance in the room across from them (the rustling of a map I believe), giving me the indication they're about to exit soon, so I pick up the phone and hurry back into my room and indeed, about ten seconds later I hear another door opening and voices in the corridor. I tried to continue the recording from within our room, but the shower in the background messed everything up, So I trimmed the file to include the good part only. Cheers!
I just quietly took my phone, pressed record in the audio recorder app and hoped for the best. And yes, I could hear them going at it faintly from the wall. At first, I didn't think I had recorded anything listening to the file, but amplifying it gave some good noises in the background. After playing in Audacity a bit, I've come up with a file I'm quite happy about myself. Judge for yourself...
