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Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:46 pm
by dj seizure
I'm moving into halls next Saturday.
CAN'T WAIT FOR FRESHERS....
What I wanted to know is, is it allowed to have a couple o' decks and a mixer in halls?
Or is that a banned item?
I haven't read anything anywhere/don't know where to read the list of banned items!
Help?!
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:50 pm
by wolf89
My mate had decks and a mixer in his room when he was in halls last year.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:51 pm
by Astral
My monitors seem to be the biggest cause of upset.
But yeah, decks and mixer no problem.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:56 pm
by dubloke
yeah i had decks and a mixer and some shitty speakers. people dont care about music until after about 10 - 11pm and obviously early in the morning
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:07 pm
by dj seizure
I was thinking about it more from a halls inspection thing.
A lot of places are real anal. So I'm worried if I lug all my stuff there and I'm not allowed it they might flip
I'm not too bothered about people in my flat, they will learn to love my music and recent vinyls I'm in love with.
(At the moment I cannot stop spinning Mr Oizo - Flat Beat)
GRRRRRIZZZLLEEEEE
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:06 am
by HRKRT
i took mine last year.
its worth it imo, somethin to surprise the girls with when you bring em back
you can have anything you want in your room. its musical equipment, the uni would be pretty retarded not to let anyone with musical equipment practise and use it, whether its a guitar or decks
just dont break rules about sound. in terms of lateness and that. also one of the reasons i chose accomodation where there was no lecture halls nearby.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:52 am
by abelard
the number of phony fuckin djs with their KAMs and electro house it'd be better if that sort of shit was banned
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:38 am
by oli90
abelard wrote:the number of phony fuckin djs with their pirated Virtual DJ and mainstream RnB it'd be better if that sort of shit was banned
Fixed
I had a desk full of production gear when I was in halls, so did the girl in the room above me. They taught music tech though so I'd be retarded for them not to let people have stuff like that in their rooms. There's usually just rules about noise during certain times. Just don't be obnoxious, people are there to get an education, paying shitloads of money for it. If you play music all day then your housemates decide to throw an all night house party the day before you have an exam they're not exactly going to sympathize with you when you're telling them to stfu.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:57 am
by staticcast
I had a guitar amp and some monitors with me in my first year and it turned out there was some ridiculous rule that said you weren't allowed "any electrical equipment" in your room. It was completely nonsensical because they weren't going around confiscating laptops or anything -- I think they were just trying to stop people cooking stuff in their rooms because we had something like the 3rd worst false alarm callout rate for the fire service out of all the buildings in the entire city. Anyway, I argued the point that you'd have to try pretty hard to set anything on fire with a solid state guitar amp, and it turned out fine in the end. I had a pretty sympathetic cleaner, and that's the only person who would've said anything.
My guess is that you'd be totally fine as long as you don't piss people off with the noise. *Maybe* they'll make you get your gear PAT tested for electrical safety, but that's pretty standard and not a big deal.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:50 am
by RubiconMan
static_cast wrote: *Maybe* they'll make you get your gear PAT tested for electrical safety, but that's pretty standard and not a big deal.
and thats just a sticker
hold tight doin your own PAT tests!
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:37 pm
by wolf89
I've been sharing a house while at uni. I live in a loft conversion so I'm up away from everyone. Don't get so many noise complaints. Most I've had was a text from one of my housemates asking if I could turn it down a little when I was playing gabba loudly and drinking beer at 11:30 PM
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:51 pm
by HRKRT
RubiconMan wrote:static_cast wrote: *Maybe* they'll make you get your gear PAT tested for electrical safety, but that's pretty standard and not a big deal.
and thats just a sticker
hold tight doin your own PAT tests!
i was at a house party and jacked someone elses stickers
was bare hung over when they came the next day, it was over in 30 secs. very glad i did that.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:58 pm
by inspektor
Nah, should be cool Za. Took my decks, KRK's and sub down to Southampton and battered them every night of freshers. Had a few complaints but no one said take em home so you should be safe
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:04 pm
by dj seizure
inspektor wrote:Nah, should be cool Za. Took my decks, KRK's and sub down to Southampton and battered them every night of freshers. Had a few complaints but no one said take em home so you should be safe
Who is this?!
I'm scared!
I mean when you has room inspections, did they say they wanted them out?
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:54 pm
by HRKRT
dj seizure wrote:inspektor wrote:Nah, should be cool Za. Took my decks, KRK's and sub down to Southampton and battered them every night of freshers. Had a few complaints but no one said take em home so you should be safe
Who is this?!
I'm scared!
I mean when you has room inspections, did they say they wanted them out?
mate i dont know what you're so pranged about
you are allowed to have decks at uni
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:46 pm
by dj seizure
HRKRT wrote:dj seizure wrote:inspektor wrote:Nah, should be cool Za. Took my decks, KRK's and sub down to Southampton and battered them every night of freshers. Had a few complaints but no one said take em home so you should be safe
Who is this?!
I'm scared!
I mean when you has room inspections, did they say they wanted them out?
No it's not that, it's that this person knows my name and what uni I'm going to...
mate i dont know what you're so pranged about
you are allowed to have decks at uni
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:13 am
by inspektor
dj seizure wrote:inspektor wrote:Nah, should be cool Za. Took my decks, KRK's and sub down to Southampton and battered them every night of freshers. Had a few complaints but no one said take em home so you should be safe
Who is this?!
I'm scared!
I mean when you has room inspections, did they say they wanted them out?
You should be scared.....i know where you live...
Jokes man, check the Southampton Dubstep thread you made...that should jog your memory...if not that then check the Southampton dubstep facebook group...
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:59 pm
by Alty
I took mine, it was never a problem, could play music loud whatever the time too.
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:32 pm
by dj seizure
Thanks everyone.
Yeah it wasn't the loudness I was worried about it was the whole eletrical item pooness they were all on. Quite a lot of unis ban a lot of electrical items in rooms so yeah, thought I'd just make sure, would be a bitch to have a room inspection and for them to tell me to get everything out and back home!
Re: Musical equipment in Uni Halls?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:47 pm
by HRKRT
dj seizure wrote:Thanks everyone.
Yeah it wasn't the loudness I was worried about it was the whole eletrical item pooness they were all on. Quite a lot of unis ban a lot of electrical items in rooms so yeah, thought I'd just make sure, would be a bitch to have a room inspection and for them to tell me to get everything out and back home!
nah its just pat testing u hav to worry about. the only electrical items they dont allow are cooking related ones.