City life with a JamHub
You live in the city. You live in an apartment. Why should you be held back from playing in a band? With a JamHub, you can crank it up and not worry about losing your lease.
Many musicians have neighbors and struggle to be able to to play with their band at home. Many good relationships with neighbors have suffered from 'band life', even if you only play during the day or dutifully stop by 9:00 PM.
Being in a band in the city and rehearsing on a whim is tricky to do. Your neighbors are all around you. Walls, floors and ceilings aren't thick enough to keep the sound from penetrating your neighbors' space. On top of that your room is not acoustically treated and it doesn't sound that great. Does this sound familiar?
It's not your fault. It's a matter of physics. You've experienced a guitar amp in a small room and you know that as the guitarist starts turning it up, the amp "fills" the room with sound quickly. When you add a bass amp and a drum kit (acoustic or electric with an amp) to the volume in the room, you've got a room that is more than full of sound. The room is completely saturated by all the sound, so when you go to add vocals, another guitar or a keyboard, there is simply no "sonic space" for anything more and all clarity is gone. Our poor ears just can't handle that much sound all at once. Things get muddy very fast and that takes a lot of the fun out of the jam, or worse, leads to volume wars and fights.
You can add a few hundred (or a few thousand) dollars in sound treatment to absorb as much sound as possible, but that won't work. It will help with the highest frequencies, but a lot of the sound coming from the amps will just keep going through the sound treatment and into your neighbors' place. There's nothing you can do to stop that sound from blooming (and booming) into the rest of the building.
You can ask everyone to "just turn down" but we all know what happens there: someone needs a bit more of themselves and things start to go up in volume. Even if you keep it down to "loud" -- and not get to "super loud" -- you'll still be too loud for the people outside of the room as the sound spreads out of the space where you're playing.
Inside the room each musician will have to try and find a perfect place to stand to get a good mix, which is sometimes occupied by a couch. The best thing to do is find a room that is 60 feet by 30 feet and open on one side like rock stars do. Or get a JamHub.
JamHub doesn't care about the shape or the size of the room. It delivers clear stereo sound every time, and everyone has perfect control of what they hear.
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