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Post by twangmeister on Jul 24, 2020 14:03:51 GMT -5
The bass player's bellbottoms are flapping.
Can't hold a meaningful conversation even if screaming.
Mixed drinks have visible circular waves in time with the kick drum
Guitar solos are clearly audible. Outside. Inside a closed car. With the engine running. While parked in the lot of another bar across the street.
Each band member requires their own Ryder box truck to bring their equipment to a baby gender reveal. Mother-to-be mistakes vibrations as the baby's kicks.
Band members still shouting at one another to be understood. The next day.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 24, 2020 15:40:24 GMT -5
An old bald guy comes marching from across a main road, between the houses, into the backyard bash during your solo on Whipping Post and gives the thumb across the neck gesture...angrily.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jul 24, 2020 20:05:06 GMT -5
No-one on the dance floor because those that try are literally blown away by your music.
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Post by ninworks on Jul 25, 2020 4:13:42 GMT -5
In my loud-rock-band-sound-tech days I used to check for blown 18" JBL subwoofer speakers with a Bic lighter. The ones that were working would blow it out. True story.
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Post by Vibroluxer on Jul 25, 2020 16:23:50 GMT -5
I used to amuse the kids by holding a lit match in front of the bass port on a pair of Bose 301s.
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Post by bassngtr on Jul 31, 2020 8:56:39 GMT -5
In my loud-rock-band-sound-tech days I used to check for blown 18" JBL subwoofer speakers with a Bic lighter. The ones that were working would blow it out. True story. Awesome!! I really miss a 'LIKE' button sometimes. I used to gig on bass with a pair of 2x10 cabs, so my stack was tall enough to stand in front of. It was so cool to feel the air being pushed.
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Post by Duke on Jul 31, 2020 13:37:49 GMT -5
Here are some rules of thumb to tell if the sounds around you are too loud:¡
You find yourself speaking loudly or shouting so people an arm’s length away can hear you. (Or you have trouble hearing someone talking in a conversational volume when you’re an arm’s length away.)¡The noise hurts your ears.¡Your ears buzz or ring during the noise or after the noise goes away.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Jul 31, 2020 18:23:18 GMT -5
If some jerk shows up with a Fender Twin Reverb there's gonna be trouble. He's gonna be a jerk. I know. I've been that guy.
I did a festival type gig for an outdoor crowd. My stage volume was 6 on a TRRI. The stage was at least 60' so I could get away with it....sorta...
But I won't do that again. However I will tell my grandchildren about it. A TRRI's 'sweet spot' will bring down a 4 story building.
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Post by jdawg on Aug 2, 2020 7:30:53 GMT -5
HuH! What'd you say?!
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Post by tahitijack on Aug 2, 2020 16:18:06 GMT -5
The audience moves outdoors to carry on conversations leaving the room empty and its January 17th....
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Post by twangmeister on Aug 4, 2020 20:31:12 GMT -5
We were the most popular band for the deaf community in our region. They could dance when we played because they could literally feel the music.
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Post by tahitijack on Aug 12, 2020 17:12:11 GMT -5
Home remodeling companies hire your band to peal wall paper and paint off interior walls of homes during demolition.
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Post by ninworks on Aug 12, 2020 21:00:05 GMT -5
Home remodeling companies hire your band to peal wall paper and paint off interior walls of homes during demolition. I use a Strat and my Twin Reverb for that.
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Post by tahitijack on Aug 14, 2020 13:36:46 GMT -5
^^^^^^ This
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Post by twangmeister on Sept 4, 2020 21:46:55 GMT -5
My surviving bandmate and I were catching up a couple of days ago. Turns out we both ended up wearing hearing aids. It was bad enough that I was almost disqualified from military service due to my hearing loss. The MEPS station doctor asked me if I had previously served in a field artillery unit in Vietnam.
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Post by K4 on Sept 26, 2020 0:12:19 GMT -5
On a serious note, I quit going to see bands, or any venue that has live music, due to the volume. Yea I get it when you are playing it can be a bit louder, but shouldn't have to yell to talk with your date. Especially when I am at the very end of the room, or at the farthest food truck. What truly PISSES me off is when on a break the canned music is just as loud as when you are playing.
Back when I was playing live it would have gotten us on a black list.
GIT OFFFA MY LAWN!!!!
No serious, I hated this when I was young. None of my bands played at these volume levels. We always got called back.
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Post by rickyguitar on Oct 15, 2020 1:19:58 GMT -5
We were the most popular band for the deaf community in our region. They could dance when we played because they could literally feel the music. Back in the day we got hired to play at a deaf school. No joke. They said bring a big p.a.
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Post by tahitijack on Oct 24, 2020 13:59:08 GMT -5
The other guitar player in our band loved to play loud. We all told him he/we were too loud for our home base bar. He never believed us. Finally at a rehearsal he said "guys we need to keep the volume down". He explained that he had visited our home base bar to see a friends band. He mentioned to the owner that the band that night seemed to be playing way too loud. The owner told him our band played louder. Nuff said.
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Post by roly on Nov 14, 2020 1:57:34 GMT -5
When your tech removes his hearing aids.
When your tech puts in ear plugs.
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Post by ninworks on Nov 14, 2020 12:41:43 GMT -5
I used to have quite a big powerful PA system for our club rock band. Had 4 full-range cabinets that each housed 2 full-range 15" JBL's, 1 - 2" throat mid driver and horn, and 2 - JBL slot tweeters. I had 2 huge servo driven sub woofers that were extremely efficient. They took the place of 2 subs with 2 18" JBL speakers each in them. The servos put out a lot more SPL than the cabs with the 18's in them. The system was tri-amped. 1000 watts on each sub woofer, 400 watts for each pair of 15" speakers X 4 = 1600 watts, 200 watts spread out over the 4 2" throat drivers, and 150 watts for all the tweeters. I could shake drinks off the tables with a 60Hz signal through the subs. I seldom used all the full range cabinets because most of the places we played didn't need that much coverage and I didn't want to have to move all of it every week. I usually used 1 full range cab per side and 1 sub per side and that was more than enough for most venues we played at. I had a 32 channel Mackie board and a couple rather large racks of outboard gear. To say it was a nice system was an understatement.
A local sound company was going out of business and the bank was coming to repo all their gear the next week. I got the entire system, power amps, cables, snake, cabinets and everything, minus the monitor system which we already had, for $10,000 cash. It was easily worth twice that much. They had 16 of the full range cabs and 8 of the 2 - 18" sub cabs and were parting it out and selling it all off quickly.
Yes, we played loud. We used to joke about the IBM factor. Involuntary Bowell Movement when I cranked up the subs and put way more bottom end in the room than it had the capability of handling. A kick drum moving air at at 80Hz and 110dB could make you poop whether you wanted to or not.
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Post by mikem on Nov 15, 2020 7:24:02 GMT -5
Here's a twist: How to tell "when your audience is too loud..."
Around 2005 my classical trio was playing the Chickentail portion of a wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, RI. ('tails took place on a glass-enclosed porch overlooking the harbor an extremely l-i-v-e room)
We're huddled together (people bumping into us)playing Haydn, etc. the best we could while the muckimucks had open bar and got extremely loud.... (a usual Npt scene). After about 30 minutes I honestly could not hear the other two players although I could see their bows moving...
When the gig ended we were walking to our cars and my voice was hoarse......from calling (yelling) the page numbers to the other two musicians. That was a totally uncomfortable gig.
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Post by rickyguitar on Dec 4, 2020 3:57:33 GMT -5
Ummm...blood in your urine?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Dec 5, 2020 0:31:18 GMT -5
Ummm...blood in your urine? You sound like a Mojo Nixon fan! For me--it was like this: When the band played a gig on Saturday night, and now it's next Tuesday and your ears are still going HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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Post by thumbpicker on Dec 31, 2020 21:48:01 GMT -5
When you're packed into a little bar storefront window with a 5 piece band and you are standing in front of the Bass players speaker cab!
who uses a Sunn forward horn for a speaker and the hair on your legs are itching from the low frequencies. You have no idea what to do and it looks like you're dancing but you are not. Just squirming.
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Post by ninworks on Jan 2, 2021 6:04:28 GMT -5
Ummm...blood in your urine? THAT'S funny.
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Jan 6, 2021 21:27:15 GMT -5
when the house lights dim and pulse in time with the bass drum and bass beats coming through the 4 subwoofers- and there's no light show controllers plugged in. also the red traffic lights outside the bar look like stop lights flashing because of power grid fluctuations.
when the venturi effect sucks the drinks out of the glasses of those standing in front of the subwoofers
when the "Karen's" hair style gets swept back into Trump-like wings, and even she's not loud enough to complain
when your Praise Band gets asked to turn down, because the tongues of fire from the Spirit keep getting snuffed out
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Jan 6, 2021 21:31:00 GMT -5
..almost forgot- the bar owner asks you to turn down ... to '11'.
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Post by gato on Feb 5, 2021 10:24:08 GMT -5
In my loud-rock-band-sound-tech days I used to check for blown 18" JBL subwoofer speakers with a Bic lighter. The ones that were working would blow it out. True story. Awesome!! I really miss a 'LIKE' button sometimes. I used to gig on bass with a pair of 2x10 cabs, so my stack was tall enough to stand in front of. It was so cool to feel the air being pushed. My full band bass rig is two Fender Sidekick cabs loaded with JBL E-140 fifteen inchers, one on top of the the other. With the amp on top, the whole thing is as tall as I am. Those horn loaded cabs hit me with "bass punch" all night long.
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Post by bluzcat on Mar 1, 2021 14:06:38 GMT -5
If some jerk shows up with a Fender Twin Reverb there's gonna be trouble. He's gonna be a jerk. I know. I've been that guy. I did a festival type gig for an outdoor crowd. My stage volume was 6 on a TRRI. The stage was at least 60' so I could get away with it....sorta... But I won't do that again. However I will tell my grandchildren about it. A TRRI's 'sweet spot' will bring down a 4 story building. I play a TRRI at church- but usually at about 2.5-3. I’m looking for a pretty clean sound and it seems loud enough. Other guitar player uses a JC-120.
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Post by Ayns on Mar 1, 2021 14:52:29 GMT -5
The other guitarist in our band used to play a non master volume Marshall JMP 2 x 12 combo. I knew he was loud, but we normally played opposite sides of the stage. One gig, due to space constraints we played side by side. He was LOUD. So loud I couldn’t hear my amp even standing right in front of it. He said it needed to be loud to get the tone.
He’s not with the band anymore.
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