have you found your practice space's resonance frequency?

[Number27]

mine's is Eb... apparently

all the windows rattle and the drum kit goes crazy, the volume doesn't even have to be very high either. so weird..

actually it's really irritating and off putting.

how 'bout you? ever shake everthing up with just one specific note?

 

[dave64o]

I've noticed that, depending on the note I play, different things in my basement will rattle. I noticed the same thing in my old house, too (moved about a year and a half ago).

EDIT - Had to vote "carrots" since none of the other choices applied.

 

[clmjlg]

When i play an E the windows and the china cabinet shake horribly. The worst is my amp head case which goes crazy when i hit an A, its makes my amp sound like i have my heavy distortion on the whole time.

 

[xgator4u]

I voted Carrots. Depending on what is in the room, how it is set up, something is always rattling/buzzing.

 

[mwiles30]

From about open G through Bb on the 3rd fret.

 

[john turner]

when i hit the open low f# on my basses, the whole house rattles, and thats' even on only about "5" volume-wise, in an isolated/insulated basement with a floating floor above the slab.

 

[Combat Chuck]

I haven't done it with my practice space, but when I was listening to a band that came on after mine once, I found out that my right ear apparently really hated the A that they kept playing. That was an unpleasant set.

 

[sonic assassin]

ive had issues with G in a room. any G. forget what room it was.

i dont know what it is in my new space, but some note always sets off this spare snare drum laying around.

 

[Freaky Fender]

My old practice space's were D and F#.

Guess what keys most of our songs were in.

 

[Phalex]

Not the practice space, but at the venue I'm playing tonight the stage resonates like crazy whenever I play an open A. It freaks the drummer out sometimes!

 

[megadan]

Our old spaces, one was around D and one was around B. But those are two of my favorite notes!

 

[ggunn]

Not the practice space, but at the venue I'm playing tonight the stage resonates like crazy whenever I play an open A. It freaks the drummer out sometimes!

Part of that may be the resonance of the stage sending vibrations up a mic stand and getting the PA involved. Putting the mic stands on little pieces of carpet can help that. Putting your bass rig on a piece of carpet may help, too, and if the mains are sitting on the stage, there's that, too.

 

[ggunn]

One night at a rehearsal, my guitar amp (yes, I play guitar as well as bass) was making a terrible buzzing, rattling sound. I looked at connections, speaker nuts, etc.... Turns out it was a couple of beer bottle caps in a metal trash can behind my amp.

 

[Phalex]

Part of that may be the resonance of the stage sending vibrations up a mic stand and getting the PA involved. Putting the mic stands on little pieces of carpet can help that. Putting your bass rig on a piece of carpet may help, too, and if the mains are sitting on the stage, there's that, too.

Isolating the cab would help, but you can feel the entire stage move!

 

[iamlowsound]

No, but I have found the frequency of the drummers snare, and his other snare. He has since tuned both slightly up and we haven't had a problem since.

lowsound

 

[stflbn]

Headphones for practice at home.

Problem solved.


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[stflbn]

An open A string will make a wall in one practice spot sound like there's an angry beaver in there trying to get out. But luckily that's only a very casual deal so they don't need me that often.