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    2021 midlands bass bash! 4th september Date Confirmed

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    44 minutes ago, Teebs said:

    I'm Irish, you heathen

    Oh.

    A lot of things have suddenly become clear.

    You might want to report me now to the folk on the Woke thread, save time later 😁

    4 hours ago, Teebs said:

    @Skinnyman - do you think you'll be able to make it this time?

    Better give the charabanc a good check-over - esp. those dodgy tyres!

    :D

    I now have tyre insurance 😁 (and I’ve used it after I blew out the sidewall on a virtually new Goodyear).

    Whether I can make it all the way from the coast is a different matter

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    Keeping it down a bit

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    6 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

    No, no; she should keep her lovely piano, and play it as often as possible, either for quieter stuff, special occasions or when the neighbours are out (or invited in for a cocktail evening, hint hint..?). The lecky joanna would be for the more robust repertoire, scales, practising, late night romps. There must be room for another keyboard, Shirley..? o.O

    Sadly not. Not if I want all my guitars and basses to hand 😁 But the Silent Piano thing fits to a “proper” piano and just disconnects the keys from the hammers when activated, leaving them to activate just the electronics. Clever.

    Sadly, it doesn’t look like it can be retrofitted so I need to have the conversation about trade in. But at least at the end we’ll have a proper Yamaha piano with the option to play it silently.

    Which is nice 

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    Keeping it down a bit

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    50 minutes ago, casapete said:

    I promised myself I wouldn’t resort to lowering myself to their level , although I might have mentioned I had an SVT rig and 2.5k PA system that could be brought into the equation.... didn’t quite come to that but I was close on a number of occasions. Looking back I can’t believe what we tolerated really, now I’m a bit older and wiser I probably wouldn’t be so reasonable.

     

    This ^^^

    It’s a more than fair compromise IMHO, and will preserve your sanity in the long run.

    The Yamaha Silent Piano system seems like it might be an answer. It depends whether anyone will take hers in PX for a reasonable price....

    Keeping it down a bit

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    15 minutes ago, jimmyb625 said:

    It's very good that you're being this considerate. However, when you discover that your new neighbours are nocturnal and bagpipe enthusiasts, you'll probably wonder why you went to so much effort.

    My first guitar/bass tutor had neighbours who were, to say the least, inconsiderate. 
     

    Matters came to a head after a drunken Saturday night that went on to the small hours and ended up with a screaming domestic.

    At seven a.m. on Sunday morning my tutor gave them the benefit of an impromptu performance through a full Marshall stack turned up to the max.

    They never made a sound after that little episode

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    1 hour ago, casapete said:

    What someone thinks is okay may not be the opinion of a neighbour who is at their wits end

    And that’s exactly what I want to avoid.

    I’m hoping that i can be quiet enough for there to be no issue - but if there is, I’d like them to tell me. If my practice is too loud and is annoying then I’ll stop and use headphones. The piano is harder but if it’s a problem then it will have to be played during the day when there’s no-one in next door.

    I don’t want to cause any problems to my new neighbours and would expect the same courtesy in return - if I need to adapt my behaviour, I will. But if the bookcases, thick curtains and an isolation pad will help the issue even arising then they’re useful tips and worth trying

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    8 minutes ago, Nicko said:

    If you come from the school of thought that your bass is only loud enough if you can feel the vibration through your feet maybe a semi isn't the right choice.

    Haha. I really don’t - I just want to practice at a sensible volume. I’m not a guitarist 😁

    I like the bookcase idea. Fortunately, I have some of those!

    Keeping it down a bit

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    28 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

    Not sure whether speaking with the neighbours will be productive. If someone knocked on my door and said "I've just moved in next door and may make a lot of noise", I'd be unlikely to be overjoyed.

    Possibly not but I’d like to hope that I’d come across as being considerate and adding “please let me know if it disturbs you” would hopefully head off any antagonism before it started.

    21 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

    The isolation pads definitely do help with the vibration, I’ve got them at one of my houses that has bare  floorboards and you notice the difference 

    Thats good to know.

    ”One of my houses”, eh? Nice. 😁

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    13 minutes ago, Cato said:

    And get Mrs Skinny a keyboard.

    Not an option I’m afraid. She’s very, very good and plays a very nice Yamaha piano. 

    Headphones are an obvious choice late at night but in the daytime and early evening I’d like the option of playing through an amp or just listening to the stereo without causing the neighbours any issues.

    It obviously makes sense to talk to the neighbours and I’ll do that but I’m also wondering if there are any practical solutions that might help too....

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    There's a chance that we'll be moving house soon and the property we've seen is a nice big semi-detached.

    Weirdly, given how often we've moved, we've never before lived anywhere with neighbours the other side of a party wall so my concern is that practicing at moderate volumes is likely to cause annoyance. Plus, Mrs S plays (acoustic) piano and that can get some volume to it when she's in full Rachmaninoff mode.

    Any advice on how to set things up to prevent noise leakage into next door? The property is about a hundred years old and pretty substantial. The only option for "The Music Room" (as we shall grandly call it whenever we get chance) is on the side of the house with the party wall although speakers and the piano can be placed around the room, away from the shared wall itself.   

    I'm not talking about late night sessions - just practice and playback at sensible volume during the day. 

    Am I worrying too much? Should I consider some sort of isolator to put a cab on to decouple the bass from the floor? 

    New GK Fusion S heads

    in Amps and Cabs

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    30 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

    Would you still stick by your first impressions post and also continue to summarise it as having "depth and clarity"?

    Absolutely. 

    Over the years I’ve had a Genz Benz 6.2, a Fender Bassman 100T, an Aguilar TH350, the Genzler Magellan and, most recently, the GK Fusion.

    I’ve liked them all in their own way but the GK is my favourite of the bunch - largely because it seems to be an amalgam of all the others. It can do the “dirty” sound of the Fender and the Aggie at one end of the scale and get close to the “clean” of the Genz/Genzler. 

    If one wanted to be picky, it lacks some of the build quality of the Genz(Ler) and it’s not as simple to use as the Aguilar but it’s certainly not flimsy or badly built and once you’ve found the sounds you want between the two channels, it’s easy enough to find them again.

    I tend not to play around with my amp settings that much - I might swap between a clean sound and something with a bit of grit but that’s about it - so once I’ve got an amp to sound the way I like I tend to leave it there. If I was playing lots of genres and needed to keep changing the fundamental sound of my bass then maybe the Genzler is a better and more flexible choice - or a Helix and an FRFR speaker. But as the amp that lets me find “my” tone, the Aguilar and the GK have been my favourites and, of those two, the GK has just that bit more versatility and character.

    I used to have a couple of Bergantino CN112s which I swapped out for a pair of Barefaced One10s so the pairing of GK head and One10 cab may have more of an impact than if I was still using the Bergs. That said, those Bergs were incredibly good and I wish I’d had chance to play the GK through them.

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    Atrocious bass tone!

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    I had a similar problem with a B3 when using it with a non-Zoom power supply. They seem to be okay with Boss PSUs but mine definitely had a tantrum when powered with an EHX power supply even though it was nominally the right rating.

     

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