Leonard Smalls

Panda Future Impact pedal will give you double bass and 80s synth sounds, but not arpeggiator (yet!).

I tried a cheapie Gear4Music midiUSB cable and it didn't work...

But found a Focusrite 6i8 for £50ish on ebay which also was an upgrade on my 2i2...

Funnily enough I was in a studio last weekend where they're running pro-tools on a 10 year old Mac with OSX 10.8 and they have no intention of trying anything later than this! Works beautifully...

3 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

One either looks the same as the audience or one must wear a dress made out of bacon, just to stand out.

You don't necessarily need pork-based products wrapped round your nether regions to look like an eejit - I find there's slightly less smelly ways 😁 (BTW, I bought this outfit in 1990 in Portobello Road, and it a) still fits and b) hasn't disintegrated due to toxic sweat overload... And apologies for sticking up yet more daft pics of yours-misanthropically)

While he always played like a demon, I feel that what he did for other people (eg with Weather Report) far outshone anything (or at least most of the stuff) he did on his own, where I think he leaned rather too much toward the cheesey elevator end of things....

However, as far as cheesey elevator stuff goes it was quality cheesey elevator stuff 😎

6 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Most UK popsters de nos jours look like nothing so much as code monkeys on their way to a strategy meeting.

I've found that most UK pub bands are similar - jeans and rock t shirts all round if particularly rockin', or jeans and ironed (tis the Devil's work!!!) check shirt for more straight-ahead covers.

While the Lady Gagas of this world may produce some amazingly dreary music, at least she dresses like a complete eejit - which is to be applauded!

16 minutes ago, Stylon Pilson said:

technically superb from a production point of view, but utterly dull to listen to

To be fair, he only moved kick and snare where it was off the beat, and any rolls and fills were stretched or pushed together. As a result some of the middle bits were much better because it was syncopated in a new and better way! And after we'd re-recorded bass/guitar it sounded tight-as against the pulled-in drums compared to any of the live stuff, as with kick/snare being rocksolid meant we were too, and fills sounded very organic.

So I feel the work was necessary due to the original speed wobbles - just wondering if the amount of editing was more than is usual? (i.e. 1500+ edits in 1 song!)

Just been in the studio for 2 days... We managed to record 5 songs in about 3 hours with drummer playing to click, but then spent the next 6-7 hours editing drums so they were in time. There were 1500 edits in one song alone...

Following day we spent redoing guitar and bass together (about 1.5 hours for 3 takes of 5 mins each), followed by about 2 hours guitar editing - including double tracking etc (5 mins on bass !) And a further couple of hours on vox and backing.

So what's normal for editing? I must add this was a quality studio which has recorded artists as varied as Van der Graaf Generator and New Model Army, and the engineer/producer was incredibly good...

12 hours ago, silverfoxnik said:

Little Simz's band were brilliant - really heavy grooves and bass lines - right up my street! 

And Elbow can do no wrong AFAIC. 

I liked Little Simz… Amazing bass sound! But Elbow do nowt for me.

However, I'm not surprised that a bunch of mainly middle-aged men with a penchant for the music of 50 years ago don't like those young folks with their terrible racket. As my dad said to me in 1978ish when a punk band came on the telly "That's not music, it's just noise! And why do they dress so badly and jump about like they need to go to the toilet?". 

I've got one of these, had it since I bought it new in about 1990! Excellent piece of kit, and I never had any volume problems...

I'm being eclectic....

5 minutes ago, odysseus said:

Cracking mullet

I suspect they may have been either:

a) being ironic

or b) from the interior of Oz 

😀

I'm loving it!

Much better tracking, more instantly useable sounds... I have a feeling our band no longer needs either a keyboard or rhythm guitar!

By V4 we'll be able to get rid of lead guitar and drummer too...

8 hours ago, steantval said:

this show just gets worse

Not quite sure how the Amyls got on, they're just a bit rubbish and not very tight, but at least they had some energy and were moderately entertaining, unlike that Gallagher bloke who got an enormous interview too.

Best band I felt were with the rapper bloke, though they were rather bland...

I find that listening and playing along to music that's different from what I normally play helps... Frinstance, our band's latest song was inspired by me listening to Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and attempting to play along with Jamaaladeen.

I also got lots of inspiration from trying to do some of the chords in Jonas Hellborg's chord book - there were all sorts of inversions and strange chords that I'd never even dreamt of!

When I've got my yellow and purple platform boots on I'm just over 5'10"...

On 22/10/2019 at 18:06, visog said:

I don't think it was cheesy.

Animal Logic's songs were cheesey, the bits inbetween the singing not so much! I was also at the Town & Country gig, which was much more of a disappointment thatn the time I saw the Stanley Clarke Band, or the time at the Festival Hall with Stan, Herbie, Wayne Shorter and Omar Hakim!

Now Golden Palominos were largely awful - I think they did about 1 good song (whose name I don't remember) with Jamaaladeen on bass...

2 hours ago, SH73 said:

.any tips on keeping lemon plant alive t

Keep them somewhere sunny - ours thrive on a windowsill that gets full sun for 1/2 day and good light for the rest.

We water about once a week from the bottom (i.e in large saucer) but don't let it stand in water for days. Feed with citrus feed or seaweed about once a month, and lookout for scale insects on the leaves. They're very susceptible indoors - as a result we put ours outside from about late May to end Sept for birds to eat... Prune and dead leaves...

Currently enjoying these crazy Brighton types:

37 minutes ago, SH73 said:

Is that a lemon plant in the big white pot?

It is!

We run a garden centre and most of the plants in what I call music room and my wife calls the garden room are undergoing TLC so they'll be good enough to sell...

The sound of a punkfunk band rehearsing in there doesn't seem to do them any harm!

Nowt from me, Doug'll be pleased to hear... 😁

Too busy arranging and rehearsing for recording at Foel Studios next week.

And in about a year I will have worked out exactly what the (essentially) 9 knobs do!

Just bought an ACG Recurve Custom from @Bigwan of this parish.

And it's the absolute business! I can see why there's so much raving about them... It does just about everything my Wal does, but is lighter and possibly even easier to play. So do I sell the Sandberg Bassic or Parker PB51?