TimR

I was checking on some search optimisation I've done on our site and found an agent that had our name on his site, but no link. I contacted him and apparently we had done work for him in the past. We hadn't, but one of our members had given him our details a few years back and we'd never followed up as we became quite busy through another agent. Anyway moving on... I asked him to link to our site, but he wanted an 'agent friendly' page. ie one with no contact names, numbers, emails, or prices on. I was thinking of creating a single page specifically for agents. What would be the best way to do this. Should I just get some free web space with an entirely different URL? Or can you recommend another way. eg MySpace is not supposed to be used by covers bands.

Depends on what you mean by ears and hearing. My listening has got better. Your hearing has got worse, you ears have got tired, but your brain has learned how to filter out the unwanted rubbish like guitars and drums. I used to live next to a railway, the trains kept me awake for a few days. I got used to them. Then I moved and I couldn't sleep because it was too quiet. Anyway... As you were. I'm not sure where I'm going with that, maybe the brain trains itself, I should chuck out the DS.

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='378923' date='Jan 13 2009, 12:57 PM']... I remain truly astonished that so many people apparently value their signature so highly that they dare not "waste" it by signing up to a petition which may or may not be 100% kosher/valid/accurate etc etc.[/quote] As the government record on keeping personal data secret is so good. I'm very happy to have my name, address and email all in one place on a public website, safe in the knowledge that my address won't be shown anywhere. Where do I enter my NI and bank AC details?

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It may be to protect the bar staff and other workers, but as you say it is a point of informed consent. We had the same problems when the H&S exec brought in the working at heights legislation and tried to apply it to rock climbing. In the end the H&S exec worked very closely with climbers so that the element of risk and the sporting activities where preserved and a best practice was adopted. There are a lot of people who moan about the nanny state, equally there are a lot of people who say that if it was dangerous 'they' wouldn't allow it. Recently there was a lot of press about mp3 players being damaging to hearing and despite there being warnings on the packaging about listening at high volumes, people still believed that if it was actually dangerous they wouldn't be allowed to sell them. There are also people who believe "If its not dangerous, its not worth doing." I still believe this is more about reducing nuisance noise for residents living near pubs and is just another thing to try to placate the NIMBYs. If you buy a house near a pub you can expect a reasonable amount of noise. But what exactly is a reasonable amount of noise? One person’s idea of music is another’s idea of noise.

Its called vestibular hypercausis. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_hyperacusis"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_hyperacusis[/url]

I have a zoom Rhythmtec. Its nice and simple. Older ones on ebay. New ones are about £100. [url="http://www.andertons.co.uk/acatalog/info_RT223.html?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=pricecomp&utm_content=allproducts&utm_campaign=googlebaseRT223"]http://www.andertons.co.uk/acatalog/info_R...googlebaseRT223[/url] A metronome will help your bass playing more, a drum machine will make you think you are better than you are. BUT you can always set a drum machine to only play 4 beats in the bar

It seems strange that they think that the drinking is due to the noise levels. It is well established that it is the other way round. Hearing is impaired by alcohol. The more people drink the louder they get. I know a lot of musicians who seem to think they play better after a beer and drummers who definitely get louder after a beer. First lnk I ggogled, there are counless others: [url="http://www.indiana.edu/~adic/effects.html"]http://www.indiana.edu/~adic/effects.html[/url] In order for people to take responsibility for their actions, they need to be informed of what their effect their actions will have. How do you know how loud it is in a bar or how loud a band is? I've played in places where they will not put the band through the limiter, but use the limiter to guage the volume of the band. The manager will tell you to turn down if the red light stays on too long. If you ignore it you don't play there again. Simple. It'll never get set to 70dB as a crowded bar is louder than that. I would refuse to plug my amp into a power circuit that will turn itself off 'randomly' and could then be reset by someone before I can kill the PA outputs and get my speakers blown. My guess is that it will have to be less than 80dB outside the venue and there will be strict limits on the amount of time that the music can be louder than a certain level inside. Unfortunately if venues don't take voluntary measures, the government acts like this.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='370495' date='Jan 4 2009, 11:23 PM']Well hello and welcome Tim! Your stand on 'technical' V's 'real life' is duly noted and you might find that you even have allies when it comes to NOT mixing drivers but where do you stand on 'vintage bass' V's 'just a load of old tat'? [/quote] Thanks for the welcome. Sorry. I don't mean to make a stand on mixing drivers. Just as long as it sounds musical, but just adding a 15" or a 4x10" thinking it will sound better, isn't always the case, and using power ratings to judge whether a speaker will sound good is not a good idea. (I had a 15" and added a 2x10". Not only did it sound really terrible but it was quieter too!) I'm obviously new here and have only lurked a bit, but thought I throw something to think about into the pot. I guess the mixing drivers discussion must come up fairly regularly then. vintage bass v's a load of old tat? Well I can only play old tat as I'm not old enough or rich enough to have a vintage bass, just some old tat from the 80's and something from the last millennium

All this talk of 15" and 10" and power into each driver is all very well. These are 'nominal' impedances and power ratings. Using ohms law and DC is OK but in reality the impedance of each speaker varies at different frequencies. The impedance of the 10" is unlikely to be the same as the impedance of the 15" for any given frequency so the power distribution will be much more complex than just saying 225watts and 4x56.25watts. But all they give us is nominal figures so fag packet drawings and schoolboy physics are the way to go, and are ok if all you are interested in is whether your speakers or amp will blow first. E.G. say the 10"s were 25ohms at 40hz and the 15" was 15ohms at 40 Hz, what happens to the power distribution then? How much of that amp power is going to get used at 40Hz and where will it go? Since the 15" is more likely to have a lower impedance for a given frequency than the 10s, a good deal of your power is likely to go in the direction of the 15". That's just electrically, never mind what then happens acoustically. This is why mixing drivers doesn't always sound good, even 2x15" from different manufacturers. Regardless of what you think the specs say, your ears are your friend.