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Just remove the walls, floors and ceilings.

It'll be much better!

Great service!

Bet you'll be popular over on guitarchat too 😛

Just seen, there's more killing of rock n roll starting on guitarchat

6 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Sorry to bother you chaps... Tried logging in to the all-new bright 'n' shiny GC with my BC log-in UN and PWD.

Yikes! GC doesn't recognise me and boots me out of log-in after a few attempts. What is a boy to do?

Its possible i snapshotted your password prior to you changing it (dont worry, its well encrypted). If you do 'forgotten password' on GC it should let you change it

7 hours ago, BrunoBass said:

Anyone else played with injuries and battled through the pain barrier like a hero? 😂

 

Yep! Leaving for band practice, carried my gear out of my front door, bass on back, cab infront of door.  I lean over the cab, resting my hand on the doorframe and pull the door shut to lock it...

Hear crunching noise, look at my thumb... now trapped in the shut door (hinge side) halfway down my thumbnail.

My thumb pretty much doubled in size, the nail filling with blood but I was determined to go to practice.  3 hours of practice later my thumb is absolutely throbbing and now a rather horrific shade of red/black (worth noting I'm a pick player and this was my picking hand).  They needed to pierce my thumbnail with a red hot needle to release the blood, typically in going through the thumbnail they managed to drive said needle into my nail bed at the same time.

The pressure of the built up blood in my thumbnail was so high by this point that the blood managed to easily cover a distance of around 4-5m as the needle released it.

That wasn't a great deal of fun!  How the hell I didn't break my thumb I'll never know!

Thanks for all the links and material!  Once I can get into the garage I'll start a thread

On 15/08/2018 at 12:23, WinterMute said:

Is the roof connected to the house? You mentioned the building is detached. The door opens to the outside?

Audio transference particularly in the LF is a big problem where there is physical connection, my room shares a common wall with the house, so isolating the interior wall was essential.

 

Sorry, badly phrased.. the garage is part of the house.  The roof is solid brick underneath some of the upstairs of the house (the house is a detached and the side with the garage doesn't have any neighbours)

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

Also how have you fixed the Helix into the case?

 

Superglue 😛

36 minutes ago, WinterMute said:

Technically, that's called "loud"...

Getting a good set of seals on the doors, including a raised sill, and any windows will serve you well, but walling up the door won't do much unless you can seal the roof in some way. 

Mass is definitely your friend however, as is distance.

There are no windows and the roof is under the house

34 minutes ago, WinterMute said:

Been absent from this thread for a while, been building studios for other people, just popped in to say it is entirely possible to increase isolation in any room, but it's likely to be reasonably expensive and not especially easy to do unless you've a good builder or a VERY handy DIY'er.

I did mine with the help of a very decent local builder, but I had to lay out exactly what I wanted in terms of the construction and materials, it cost about £8K to fully proof the garage to the point where I can work at proper levels into the early hours without disturbing the good lady wife or the boys.

As pointed out above, isolation is not acoustic treatment, and you'll need to do both if you want the room to be useful with other people in the vicinity.

 

Skol: your room looks grand mate.

I'm not looking to make this "completely" soundproof, electronic drums into a PA is the kind of volume level I have in mind

1 hour ago, Jus Lukin said:

Always worth pointing out that room treatment and soundproofing are very different jobs!

There are many principles which cross over between the two, but if you're going for a simple approach, you will achieve nothing as far as containing the sound.

To make a cartoonishly simple generalisation, with room treatment, every little helps- with soundproofing nothing helps until you have everything!

Oh yeah absolutely, but I already have a pretty good idea on the soundproofing aspect

The room treatment is to make it so that you can actually practice in the room with it being a wall of mush!

The garage is currently made of breeze blocks within bricks on 3 walls and it's a detached.  So bricking up the inside of the garage door will cover the majority of noise issues I expect! (although ventilation will need factoring)

Adding some damping around the room\ceiling will help alleviate reflections and I expect a few basstraps will be required, the floor is likely to be a bit more problematic I think

This thread is awesome!  I'm hoping to be planning out a garage conversion in the near future so I'm sure I'll be referring to it plenty!

Although I'm thinking of going slightly more simplistic and aiming for a "practice room" type environment.  Keep noise in and neighbours happy type thing.  Although, still not going to want horrible reflections mushing up the sound either.

Just more taming of a room than "treatment" is what I'm expecting!

Ooooh I could have a second one? 😛

Shame I'm skint! Good luck with the sale, it's a great bass!

15 hours ago, BreadBin said:

 

I'm afraid this sounds like an issue on your end.  All I can really suggest is re-installing chrome.  What android device are you using? Is it particularly old?

14 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

Have the owners of the site never thought of making it available on Tapatalk? (I'm assuming it's not on there as I searched and got a forum for bass fishing 😂). It makes browsing and using forums much easier than a standard mobile site. 

Considered it but the site relies on a number of customisations which wouldn't work correctly in Tapatalk (it's also an outdated and clunky system IMHO)

Sounding a bit spoilt for choice!

Remember to bring the hobnobs!

I wonder if it's a toy or there's something particular in mind for it

I don't think there's a resolution as such but there are size limits I can check for you?

I had the blue version of the peavey as my first bass.  Bloody decent instrument but only cost £170 new and it was less online.

5 hours ago, ped said:

There is, but the default forum search calls forum areas ‘topics’ instead for some reason. I’ll see if I can change. 

In the meantime try the filters as shown. 

Cheers

What you're saying in the above is that you want to search for topics within the forums which contain your search term.  Seems correct by me

Looking to trade my Ibanez RG450 DX (Upgraded pickups to John Petrucci Signature Illuminator) for something in a 7 string shape.

It's otherwise stock, it's the white model.

I'll get a picture up later!

It should only make a sound if your media volume is up.  On mobile, wait for it to make a sound and then immediately press down on your volume button, I expect that's all that will be required.  Happened to me a few times where I watched a video elsewhere and forgot to put it back down

Yikes...

Does it do the same when the Focusrite isn't plugged in?

Yup I know

11 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

 I think it's a lovely idea. Then I remember the BC blog and the difficulties involved in getting people to just write stuff, let alone get together, record and edit. Oh, and someone to sit through the recordings to check them for defamatory comments and - gasp - profanities.

Great if it happens, won't be holding my breath, happy to be proved wrong.

It would really be quite amusing if any profanties were overdubbed with the same swear filter as here