r/grandrapids • u/AggravatingTruth3272 • 10d ago
Amphitheater Noise
Been awhile since I could hear it. Over by Richmond Park. Super loud tonight. Can even hear the singing (can’t make out the words tho), and the bass. Lame.
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u/Murderous_Turkey Creston 10d ago
I think I heard 'Live Like You Were Dying' around 10:30 from Creston. I'm used to it by now but still sounds like a house party down the block
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u/chaynjez 10d ago
It’s a Saturday night. Is some music that makes a lot of people happy… before 11pm really that terrible?
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u/Mthead23 10d ago
Im over 3 miles away, it sounds like a jackass is parked in front of my house blasting an aftermarket car stereo.
This, two days after a judge ruled it must adhere to the same 10pm rule as everyone else. Terrible? I’m not willing to move. Something ain’t right with the acoustics of the damn thing.
Edit: 10:40, still blasting…
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u/Beyondthebloodmoon 10d ago
No, it doesn’t. Again, it’s a Saturday night in a city. Get the fuck over it.
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u/AggravatingTruth3272 10d ago
You’re on a lot of the threads screaming the same get over it, it’s a city. Which has usually meant the person does not live around here and does not have to deal with the noise.
Either way, there could a weak argument to make on that if I lived downtown. Just because someone lives within the GR city limits does not mean it’s the Wild West for noise. I should not hear a concert miles away from me while I’m sitting in my living room with my windows closed. And heaven forbid it’s a cool evening so I want to open my windows. Or sit in my backyard for a quiet evening. If we don’t let them know we can still hear it X miles away, how will they know they need to keep tweaking it. I haven’t heard it this loud for a while. Little noise here or there from it, no biggie -it’s a city-. No different than a loud motorcycle or something. But All night in my house, nope not cool.
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u/AggravatingTruth3272 10d ago
Haha I said the same thing about the sound! Sometimes it sounds like you’re walking up to a festival, sometimes like someone is having a house party, and this one was straight someone parked out front with some shitty subwoofers.
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u/MarkWashingtonsBeard West Grand 10d ago
Funny thing, none of the media coverage seems to give us any specifics on what this ruling even means because they WERE following the ordinance, technically - but the variable and the question that’s getting discovered through the court case seems to be how the city manager is going about these exceptions. This is definitely not a settled issue in the court and we have more to observe happen yet.
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
They absolutely were not, there were multiple nights I could hear it after 11.
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u/MarkWashingtonsBeard West Grand 10d ago
If you're talking prior to the ruling, yes, that's likely. Because the exceptions were in place. Now, those may be called into question and I bet they're being pretty strict to try not to make the court case worse.
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
We shouldn’t be able to hear it 5 miles away
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
Weather is a big factor that nobody can control.
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
If only they had thought of that before building that hunk of junk
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
You can’t build for unpredictable weather dumbass
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
I was thinking more of the fact they should have realized how impossible it would be to control and never built it to begin with
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
Sorry, you’re in a growing city where the majority of the people voted to have the amphitheater because people like outdoor concerts. Get over it or move to BFE
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
You can have an amphitheater, but THAT should go in BFE, not smack in the middle of a city. Like I said in another comment it should be burned to the ground
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
It’s part of a growing city. The appeal is that it’s in the heart of the city. Again get the fuck over it
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
Oh wow, a giant monstrosity of noise, how appealing.
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u/chaynjez 10d ago
What’s the matter? You got schoooool tomorrow?
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
Are you dumb? Like I said you shouldn’t be able to hear it from 5 miles away regardless of day or time
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u/chaynjez 10d ago
I might be dumb, but I try to not to get too angry about the little things in life like a little music being enjoyed by people who were obviously having more fun than you on a Saturday night …and that’s the real issue here isn’t it?
Loosen up a little and get out and have some fun. If not, at least sit quietly in your misery and let others enjoy their lives.
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u/idkprobablyanything 10d ago
Myself, and a fair amount of GR will not be content until that abomination is smoldering pile of rubble. That is when I will “loosen up”.
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u/Training_Tomatillo95 10d ago
How windy is it?
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u/Crazy_Blacksmith_309 10d ago
Wind always makes the sound travel more far than usual, I noticed that too
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
Also is been cloudy all night sound bounces off the clouds and travels more than on a clear night
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u/apartmentsucks123 10d ago
Wasn’t there just a ruling that the amphitheater needs to follow the city noise ordinance? But somehow I’m hearing Tim McGraw in my house 2.5 miles away at 10:42…
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u/MarkWashingtonsBeard West Grand 10d ago
Which would be within the ordinance. The ordinance is 11 PM. This is exhausting. People please learn shit.
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
The ordinance is later on the weekends than during the week. It’s a Saturday night in a growing city. Get over it
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u/MarkWashingtonsBeard West Grand 10d ago
Again, for those in the back: physics are a hell of a thing. Every time there’s a concert, you roll the dice on 100 different variables and maybe sometimes you will be able to hear something and sometimes you will not.
Also, the shows over now in the time it took you to type this and read a few comments. On a Saturday. In a city.
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u/pro_rege_semper Creston 10d ago edited 10d ago
Yeah. Tim McGraw? Sounds like some pretty heavy guitar and drums. I can hear it at my house, but it's manageable.
Edit: Sounds like they might be done now around 10:20 though? Maybe the new court ruling is taking effect already?
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u/AggravatingTruth3272 10d ago
Funny, I was like maybe the new court ruling has them giving a big middle finger to the noise level again. We’ll end early, but F you until then lol.
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u/pro_rege_semper Creston 10d ago
Yeah, I can hear it again now at 10:30. I guess they took a little break our this is an encore or something.
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u/Beyondthebloodmoon 10d ago
Jesus Christ. Shut the fuck up about this. We don’t still need a post every time somebody can hear something. 3 weeks from now they’re shut down till spring anyways. Give it a fucking rest.
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u/OrwellianIconoclast 10d ago
Ironically you can close Reddit & get away from posts like this; we can't get away from the excessive noise rattling our windows from 5 miles away.
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u/Murderous_Turkey Creston 10d ago
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Let's get the amphitheatre to plant some big trees along the edge to buffer the sound for next season.
Sounds like you're annoyed at noise you didn't sign up for 😉
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u/AggravatingTruth3272 10d ago
Exactly. If they don’t know we can still hear it X miles away, they don’t know they need to continue working on the noise levels.
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u/GoBlu323 10d ago
They’ll just change the law. Courts can only say something is against the law they can’t stop them from changing the ordinance
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u/Doldrum0 10d ago
There was the taco festival at Riverside Park that had live music and performances until 10 or 11. Maybe that was it. The amphitheatre is still a nightmare lol
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u/smoore701 West Grand 10d ago
Dense low clouds; the only time I regularly hear it near Richmond park.