How loud do you practice?

[steve66]

just loud enough to drown out my wifes voice.

 

[Bassist4Life]

An amplifier makes your instrument louder so you can hear it. Most of the time when I sit down to write out basslines, I don't even use an amp. If I am practicing with our keyboard player, I just plug into his amp and turn up relative to his volume. In a situation where I actually use my practice amp; I turn it up to 1 or 2, loud enough to hear my eq settings.

Joe

 

[10emmanuel]

Do you guys find that you notice mistakes ( technique type ) when practicing loyd but not when practicing al low volume? I like to practice on a comfortable level for my ears, that's all. But I notice that when I put the amp loud for a rehearsal, and playing ( without the other instruments playing ) I notice details. But I wonder if I should play always loud to improve my tehcniche or....

 

[10emmanuel]

Far too loud to keep up with a bonehead drummer and guitarist. Who doesn't need a full Marshall/Mesa stack and mic-ed drums to practice in a 15x15 room? It's so loud that we have maxed out our PA just on the drums and vocals. I can't fathom why they feel they need to be so loud. The only thing it does is cover up mistakes.

The rest of the band will have hearing problems in a few years. I use earplugs.

I think playing low actually covers uo mistakes

 

[elliestradiol]

As quietly as possible. I moved to my current apartment a few months ago after being in a house where I didn't have a lot of neighbors, so figuring out how to hear myself without shaking the entire building was a bit of a challenge during those first few days