Couple upstairs, Need help with the recording.

[johidi]

This is actually at my apartment, but this is the busiest section so I thought it'd post here for better help.

I've been noticing a lot of steps in the room above me at my apartment for couple of weeks. So, I went ahead got this Piezo mic:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1GG05L/re ... XCbR2AN7P4

Results were meh, I could hear them, but it just picks up too much noise from my room.

I ended up purchasing this:
https://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-Con ... way&sr=8-9

And this one works slightly better. The recording below is from this mic. I make music, so the mic is plugged into my audio interface.

My apartments are newly built so you can't hear any of these sounds with normal hearing. The walls/ceiling is thicker that even heavy steps are faint in sound.

I have the Piezo mic stuck to the roof with the adhesive it comes with, right in the middle of the room. It's currently right next to a vent( the vent is the only opening in the ceiling so, I thought more sound will come through), I will have to experiment with other areas. Even with the Piezo, you can only hear them slightly with their tv noise and what not.

They seem to be pretty active, almost every night for the past week.


I would love to get a better sound catch, so please if anyone has any tips or recommendations!!

I edited the shit out of it to get their sounds out as best I can, but the room ambiance is too loud. I attached the unedited file as well

[AdamMK0147]

The ( no edit.mp3 ) has no sound coming from it but the upstairs clean has sound in the file so you may want to reupload the no edit one to where there is sound.

[yeppie]

I edited the shit out of it to get their sounds out as best I can, but the room ambiance is too loud. I attached the unedited file as well

Yes, please give us the unedited file (with sound) as the "cleaned" one sounds ... not like sex

[Frodo67]

I think the mic picked up extraterrestial signals.

[yeppie]

I think the mic picked up extraterrestial signals.

Then the recording is placed in the wrong section

[AdamMK0147]

I think the mic picked up extraterrestial signals.

that's what I thought too lol I was like Great we made contact with Extraterrestrials from outer Space I Hope they are nice and not Hostile

[johidi]

hmmm, this is interesting. Am I making up the noises in my head

I attached the orginial here. What I did was amplify the signal and ran it through Izotope RX Noise remover. Amplified it again and did the removal again.

It is very possible and something I feared, that I am over amplifying and it the removal off is creating new noises and that is what I am thinking is sex noises lol

That is why I wish I had a better mic to be able to get clearer sounds. The no edit file is pretty much all noise, and not really audible unless you run it through noise removal.

This is why I am here, to see if there is something and other suggestions.

I will post later when I get home the timestamps where I think there are sex sounds and you guys can verify.

[johidi]

Guys after 00:45 I can definitely hears sounds. The bass sound is them pounding and she is infidelity moaning.

[bukkakemaster]

I have to listen to these late today. To try to see it i can give some help in this matter! I mean i use a simple piezo to record wall recordings, but for me it is very dead at my neighbours at the moment. But i have very little room noice! But it is maybe because of the way i am padding around the piezo and what way i have mounted it.. But i have experimented alot with piezos. I come back to you later!! ☺ But keep up with this..

[johidi]

I have to listen to these late today. To try to see it i can give some help in this matter! I mean i use a simple piezo to record wall recordings, but for me it is very dead at my neighbours at the moment. But i have very little room noice! But it is maybe because of the way i am padding around the piezo and what way i have mounted it.. But i have experimented alot with piezos. I come back to you later!! ☺ But keep up with this..

I would appreicate any tips man. Like I said the walls are very thick and it isn't picking up all the sounds it should. They seem to be very active and I want to get a clearer recording.

[bukkakemaster]

I have listened thru both the edited and the no edit. In some way i think the last piezo pickup you use *i have such myself to, but i tryed it once and compared it with my ordinary piezos!* Alot of sound got lost totally with that piezo. I see that the one i had isnt the same as yours. But those 2 piezos work best with resonance.

I use only these piezos:

https://www.amazon.com/TIMESETL-Pickup- ... pons&psc=1

But well it´s abit of work with soldering and so. But i think they work better as a contact microphone, but well all those piezos has different sensibility, and size and well other facts i dont know makes them differ abit! But i think they work better. Only problem with those to is that they pickup room noice it you dont make a contruction with padding and that the surface that you attach it to has to be flat. But i can point you to try these! *they are very cheap, but i think they work alot better!* I mean i record sounds that comes from the other side of a 15-20 cm thick concrete wall.. But as times is now none of the neighbours are active. But well i can hear neighbours that lives 3 stories down, so those side noices arent so big problem.

[johidi]

I have listened thru both the edited and the no edit. In some way i think the last piezo pickup you use *i have such myself to, but i tryed it once and compared it with my ordinary piezos!* Alot of sound got lost totally with that piezo. I see that the one i had isnt the same as yours. But those 2 piezos work best with resonance.

I use only these piezos:

https://www.amazon.com/TIMESETL-Pickup- ... pons&psc=1

But well it´s abit of work with soldering and so. But i think they work better as a contact microphone, but well all those piezos has different sensibility, and size and well other facts i dont know makes them differ abit! But i think they work better. Only problem with those to is that they pickup room noice it you dont make a contruction with padding and that the surface that you attach it to has to be flat. But i can point you to try these! *they are very cheap, but i think they work alot better!* I mean i record sounds that comes from the other side of a 15-20 cm thick concrete wall.. But as times is now none of the neighbours are active. But well i can hear neighbours that lives 3 stories down, so those side noices arent so big problem.

Awsome! Thanks for the info. Is there a tutorial or guide on how to use these? Whats the best way to connect this to the computer. Also, I would love more information on the padding.

[bukkakemaster]

Well i dont know any tutorial if i say so. I only have trial and error experience. Only thing you have to do with one of these is to connect it to a 3,5 mm plug. Like those you have on a headset! Preferably those that arent the new kind of cables without isolation. Those are really hard to solder them to. but you solder the thicker lead to the black cable from the piezo, and left/right to the red of what colour they come with.

As paddig or well material to isolate it more from the piezos room noice its to only use a pillow or something that stop all the other noice to be captured or dampen it. I have a piezo that i have scotch taped to a tincans bottom "outside", and the hollow open part is the side i put against the wall or what surface it is.. But its important that the surface is flat. So it will work like when you put a glass against the wall to listen what neighbours are doing. I think you figured it out how i mean!

You said connect to a computer.. Sometimes a computer makes that anoying electrical noice tham becomes humming in the recording. Like static noice! I connect my microphone to a recorder with that 3,5mm socket plug to get rid of static humming. I mean all Ac equipment that i connected to a wall socket brings that noice.. Those that are operated on battery is often better, but well more expensive because all batteries that run out. I use a Sont ICD-PX333 dictaphone connected to that piezo

[Rincon227]

In the un-edited file there are definitely sounds, much stomping going on which leads the mind to wonder BUT unfortunately no audible moans. I believe you have a good opportunity with your neighbors to capture some great sounds. Keep experimenting! Thanks for your efforts.

[findu]

If you want clearer sounds and they have sex almost every night you could drop a little mic at their front door for a good quality recording?