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With not being able to crank the shit out of your gear?

I was just rocking my ACC150 with my Zombie Fuzz and it was sounding glorious.....but sadly the volume was maybe on 2.5? Loud, yeah, but not to the ear destroying (I have ear plugs) bowel thumping (why else would I play guitar through a cab with an 18" speaker?) level I'd like.

But, having three cats, I don't want to hurt their ears. They get freaked out enough by my playing at lower volumes.

I need to join a band don't I? Then go to a jam room somewhere and deafen my bandmates instead of my cats.

Yeah, this thread has no real point. Just was both excited and bummed by my jamming tonight.

put your cats outside

Maybe they sell cat ear plugs, lol.

mamberg wrote:put your cats outside

I live next to a busy road or I'd risk an outdoor kitty play pen!

sleewell wrote:Maybe they sell cat ear plugs, lol.

Seriously, I just need to get over my abject terror of jamming with others and find someone to make noise with don't I? Preferably someone without pets. Or pets who are already deaf.

You really don't crank your amps because you're afraid of upsetting your cats?







Billy, get we get a permaban rule written in for such an offense?

Dude playing in band is the most fun

Diocide wrote:You really don't crank your amps because you're afraid of upsetting your cats?

Billy, get we get a permaban rule written in for such an offense?

I love my kittehs! And they are neurotic enough as it is!

Seriously though, I don't want to hurt their lil ears. I'd feel awful if I did.

And wifey would kill me.

When I was in college we lived next to a place called "The Sign Inn". It was a house full of deaf students. They were the best neighbors ever. Never once complained about band practice. Now I live in suburbia. Pedals and master volume is the best I can do.

hwy1 wrote:When I was in college we lived next to a place called "The Sign Inn". It was a house full of deaf students. They were the best neighbors ever. Never once complained about band practice. Now I live in suburbia. Pedals and master volume is the best I can do.

Yeah, my VTM is NMV. It sounds glorious and I've only really gotten to crank it a couple times.

I don't like not being able to play as loud as I normally do but I just don't want to wake my son up when he's asleep.

An attenuator it is then

sleewell wrote:Dude playing in band is the most fun

Best solution.

sleewell wrote:Dude playing in band is the most fun

SexWithRobots wrote:Best solution.

You know that flaky neurotic guy? The one who you can TELL really wants to be in a band, but just sorta flakes out and can't make it work?

That'd be this guy.

I suppose I could just show up with a handle of JB and that'd probably help.

Fuck the cats, play loud

Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?

ovid9 wrote:Seriously though, I don't want to hurt their lil ears. I'd feel awful if I did.

This brings on a whole new meaning to pussy-whipped.

I used to have a Superlead 100. You should have seen my sisters Greyhound after I jumped the channels and dimed them both. The dog wasn't shaking. He was quaking.

That amp seriousy shook the whole house.

I used to have a Superlead 100. You should have seen my sisters Greyhound after I jumped the channels and dimed them both. The dog wasn't shaking. He was quaking.

That amp seriousy shook the whole house.

Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?

TyroneBiggums wrote:This brings on a whole new meaning to pussy-whipped.

And totally sigg'd Rampage!

Note, I didn't say I couldn't play at all! I do! But...when I have a bit of a buzz, and I'm running a fuzz pedal into a 70s SS bass amp and cab......that doesn't scream for sensible volume.

paul88lx wrote:I used to have a Superlead 100. You should have seen my sisters Greyhound after I jumped the channels and dimed them both. The dog wasn't shaking. He was quaking.

That amp seriousy shook the whole house.

God I can only imagine.

My house is old, I can get everything most everything rattling with just my Bravo into my Mesa. My bigger amps could probably level this joint.

My cats lay right in front of the cabinet blast radius, they got used to it.

I have to have my Marshall's almost full bore to get them uncomfortable enough to move, but there was a period of time where they had to get acclimated to it.

Mark Starr wrote:My cats lay right in front of the cabinet blast radius.

Your cats are awesome.

I can hear mine sprinting wildly away when I start to play.

*Is starting to think he knows where the problem is.*

ovid9 wrote:
Your cats are awesome.

I can hear mine sprinting wildly away when I start to play.

*Is starting to think he knows where the problem is.*

Ease them into it. Maybe put a clear shield in front of the cabinet to dull the beam a bit, then turn up a little louder each day.

Put the cab in a closet, or throw a blanket over it to dull it.

Dude, trying to become a musician by playing in your bedroom is like trying to become a lover by jacking off. Get in a band.

ovid9 wrote:Your cats are awesome.

I can hear mine sprinting wildly away when I start to play.

*Is starting to think he knows where the problem is.*

PLINK PLINK PLINK

Fuck cats play loud....

....not joking....

I dont have that problem, in fact i play so loud in my house ive had to renail down my siding, twice. Im sure the band practicing here did some of it as well but how many people can say that.

Living in the woods=awesome