Man.....I had everything all warmed up and plugging along on the Jazzmaster and started to just have the best time when I think I hear the wifey yelling from the bedroom.So I turn the amp down and I hear "Turn that guitar down... NOW"!! "I am trying to sleep". It was one of those sessions where I just started to get going and everything was nice and warmed up and sounding really good.I was on my game tonite.It would of been a great night to lay some tracks down thats how good it was sounding...at least to me.I couldn't go in any other rooms cause they are all occupied and unfortunately the garage is a mess and cold so that was the end of that.I love my wife and respect her, but a man has to have some fun every now and then .Argghh...I wish I had my own music mancave that I could just go to an unload as loud and late as I want.What a bummer....I was really feeling it tonite too
Rant over

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Rent an industrial unit, that's what I did.

Although that can be the start of a slippery $@!&# - started renting it as a good place to practice at decent volume, slowly moved gear over there, then recording gear, then made a few alterations, couple of years later ended up opening my own studio there.

EDIT - s l o p e is in the swear filter? Oooookaaaaay. Odd.

In the wrong context, it's a racial slur against Asians. Filter can't read context, just individual words. I didnt know it was a slur until reading it here...oh well.

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i know the feeling , i'm waiting on my daughter getting her own place so i can get a room for all my gear and get set up for recording , right now i have guitars and cases in our bedroom along with a 2x12 cab and an epiphone vj head and my 8 track MD unit , in the living room is a jcm800 half stack and a couple of guitars on stands . man i've got a great wife

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Yeah,when my sons were growing up we were full capacity in the house,I had my music room upstairs where the sound radiated down through the floor,two of my sons are guitar players now also,and my youngest one told me recently that some of his earliest memories were of me practicing upstairs while he was in bed.
The wife knew better than to yell at me to turn it down.

I remember when i was younger and practicing at home when everyone was out, i had a Park 100w head through a 4x12 cab going in a small bedroom and it was so loud the floor was vibrating! anyway everyone was out, or so i thought! next moment my father barged into the room screaming to "get that bloody noise turned down" he had come in to the house and said he was walking home past a row of shops about half a mile away from the house and you could hear it down there I'm sorry i put people through that but when you're younger you just don't think about these things!

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George Van Eps.

My son has a bedroom in the basement that I have plans for turning into a great man cave, of course he has to move out first! He's a senior this year so gets closer all the time.

Happily, one of the few good things that happens as you get older is that you get complete (well, almost) control of your house once the kids move out and start their own families. In all the houses I have lived in I always had at least some space to keep a few amps and guitars, though I never opened up the volume unless I knew everyone was OUT of the house - common sense.

Now that I am really older and the wife has realized, after 41 years of marriage, that I am ALWAYS going to have lots of guitars and amps, she is cool with it. But when we bought the house we are in now (1922 Craftsman), she said all of the bedrooms were under her control, that if I wanted a Music Room, it would have to be in the basement. Needless to say, I made the remodeling of The Basement my first and foremost priority once we moved in. The kitchen was second, still is.





Yeah, we're talking serious Music Room Man Cave in this basement, but in all honesty, I hardly ever really crank up any of the amps - unless I know The Wife is at work!



Did I mention that I sometimes keep my 3,000-watt Peavey PA system set up in the Music Room? Or that, even at my advanced age, I still like to hear AC/DC at a volume that vibrates the windows upstairs... all the way upstairs..?



The recording workstation, complete with two computers, digital interface, monitors, other toys...



What can I say? I'm sick! But I am not suffering from "empty nest" syndrome!

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Try cleaning the garage up and get a heater. They have different types of heaters that will work well in a small area. Home Depot or a similar outlet carries them. I`m an artist and I can`t do oil paintings in the house cause of the odor the paint gives off so I do them in the garage. Either that or just wait for your wife to leave the house before you play.

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I can understand...I have a similar problem. I had my eye on the Epiphone BB King Lucile signature until I realised I had no-where to put it...

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Hey CRGuitarman that's not a house! that's a guitar shop you have there wish i had all that stuff i suppose you can justify it when you're a gigging musician but it's hard to justify if you're like me and just play for pleasure nowadays, but i still have four guitars and four amps tho' two of those are battery practice one's, a Pignose and a EH Freedom amp.

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George Van Eps.

Feel for you man, Though I get in a 6pm and the wife gets in at 9pm, so I do get a few hrs loud practice..
Even better though, I have anytime access to our firms warehouse which is 5minutes away.
I just drag the amps, guitars, loopers and effects there and have a blast.
Nothing better for the soul then to use natural reverb! SWEET..
Keith

I have a couple of guitar playing friends who always like to come over here to jam, they know they don't need to bring a guitar or an amp. One of them always asks when I am going to open my own music store? And actually, I have a really nice 800-square-foot garage fully insulated with A/C and gas heat, but it's full (and I mean full) of woodworking tools. Now that garage will make somebody a really nice Man Cave sometime in the future when I sell this place and move.

Yes, I am a pretty heavily gigging musician - actually heading over to one of our casinos later tonight to hear a band that has asked me to join them as lead singer and second guitar. They are booting out two younger guys, both in their 20s, who can't take the band seriously enough to suit the bass player and drummer who started it. Friday and Saturday will be the farewell performances for the kids who are sticking it out for the big casino New Year's payoff.

If I join these guys I will be performing solo 5-6 times a month, in a duo 1-2 times a month and then playing with the full band. Life can be pretty interesting, even when you are pushing Social Security time! Other than a few gifts and a couple of freebies, all of my gear has been bought with gig money!

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

Hi CR, even if i wanted loads more stuff (and i do) i could never have it. Same story as most folks, house just too small. But i love to see all the stuff other folks have got. What i always laugh about is when a non musician asks, when they find out you're buying another amp/guitar, "what do you need that for? you've aready got tons of guitars/amps!"

They just don't understand do they?

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George Van Eps.

I live in a 1 BR condo near the beach. Nice location but no room, no privacy, no sound proofing so I can't turn the amps up . . . and I never get to the beach anymore! I've been thinking of moving to a house where I would have room for a small studio/music room.

CRGuitarMan -- I am envious.