mcnach

Lucky you. I never liked playing with headphones. Even when I'm playing quietly, I use my amp. But yes, you do have to mind the levels and remember just how much bass can travel through walls. However, to prevent someone from playing amplified at home (keeping levels reasonable) during the day is just not on either. Some people expect absolute silence from their neighbours, and sometimes the same people are the ones who think nothing of playing their home cinemas with sub-bass and yelling in the house at 3am when they come home after a few drinks... It's tricky. When a neighbour has unreasonable expectations and demands, at some point you have to say 'enough' and live your life too... but you're taking a gamble as to what happens next, so it's important that you remain 'reasonable' even if others aren't, so that if the time comes, you cannot be found to be at fault.

oh, she does sound high maintenance...

It's always tricky with neighbours because you don't really want to start having issues at your own home... Given it looks like it's just this week, I'd lean towards keeping very calm, polite and nice. It may be worth not simply just shut down bass entirely, but actually have a conversation as to what would she find acceptable... maybe there are certain times, or lengths of time, that she would not be so bothered by the noise, and you could both reach an agreement. In my view, that would be the best outcome, where you both feel you give a little, but also take a little: respect. And then cross your fingers. Good luck! Noisy or supersensitive neighbours can be a real pain.

the little one?

following! looking good!

I love it!

They may be the stock ones, but that doesn't mean you won't like others better, right?

But even the vocal line is near identical to that in Creep... unlike the other 'versions'.

Not always. Some of the first CDs were indeed very good... but a lot of them, especially when they were reissuing older albums on CD, they seemed rushed jobs and not mastered properly for CD. It was very disappointing to buy CDs of albums I had had for years and find they lacked... 'life' , compared to what I was used to. The problem is not the medium, is what you put in it... Masters designed for vinyl are very different from those that are destined to CD, so you need someone to spend a bit of time remastering the thing to be issued on CD, and they didn't always put enough care, clearly.

and I was indicating one of several reasons why that might be. I'm not arguing.

Interesting, thanks! I have never seen any other reference to a Retro 215. Could it be they planned to make it but changed their minds? Anyone has seen one of these Barefaced Unicorn cabs? Ooops, I did it again and changed the name

Was there ever a "Retro 215"?

lesson learnt... in Venezuela, use a fork for soup if you must...

what??? but... how???? !!!

it's ALWAYS something sexual, isn't it???

Well... interesting that you say that, because... in South America they have sometimes preserved a lot of words and phrases that in Spain we have either lost or "corrupted" into something else... so sometimes you could argue that there's a lot of "proper Spanish" on the other side of the Atlantic. As I said... it's a jungle.

there may be something there, I think in Mexico (and possibly some countries in South America) lana can be slang for money. We don't use that meaning in Spain, but I've certainly heard people say (in a movie) "uf, mucha lana" when they thought something was too pricey. There are a lot of differences in the Spanish spoken in different countries... sometimes with hilarious or embarrasing results. While in Spain you would "coger el autobus" (take the bus), in Argentina that would imply you want to have sexual intercourse with the bus. In Spain coger and agarrar mean pretty much the same: take, grab... so an Argentinian would say "agarrar el autobus". It's a jungle out there...

post pictures when done!

Good amp. I had the 9.2... Versatile and good sounding.

I don't particularly desire a lot of sustain, I think... but I can think two reasons: 1) you can always mute/deaden a string/note, but you cannot lengthen it. 2) low sustain could be a reflection of the general build quality: not rigid enough to allow strings to vibrate... Still, I'm not sure sustain is something generally considered much when thinking bass guitar... although other bass instruments can have sustain in spades, so why not.

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Yup. When I bought my RH450 early in 2009, it was something like £750, and the RS210 cab £370... A couple of years later or so when I was thinking of selling the RH450, the price dropped to about £600... or maybe less, I can't recall exactly, but it was a big drop. I wasn't very happy.

She has, but she doesn't like the necks that much. I know, I know, I considered breaking up with her, but nobody is perfect