Leonard Smalls

They're a nightmare! I used to book bands for a local festival where the venue was a large village hall. They had a limiter - supposedly as a condition of their licence. On close inspection I discovered that the limiter was rated at 13amps (i.e. about 3kW), and covered all the sockets on the stage. Not only that, but it was set at 92dB, c weighted, which meant almost any bass would set it off. And we had Wilko Johnson booked! So basically, the village hall committee expected us to run PA (20kW!), plus lights (500W LEDs) and backline off a 13A circuit. With a digital desk, no soft-start on the PA amps and valve backline, damage would definitely have been done when the power went off - and back on again. So I contacted the council, who said we could have special dispensation to bypass the limiter; I told the committe this, and they said we still had to use it - even after I'd explained the difficulties... Luckily both the PA engineer and I are sparkies, so we quickly ran a 25mm cable to the stage and it all went swimmingly - traffic light happily on red for much of the gig! As a further happy ending, the local community also decided that the village hall committe were useless and they've all now gone to be replaced by reasonable folks!

We need 29000 more votes!

Good boy!

Who knows! We were all terribly off our faces - for all the early gigs we just plugged in and played with no real idea what we were going to do. For up to 4 hours. Poor audience!

Only 18 votes so far! Some of us need all the help we can get

[quote name='The fasting showman' timestamp='1406879270' post='2515474'] Kim Annette Clarke, Defunkt (great Stingray sound on 'Thermonuclear sweat') [/quote] +1 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDFDdsFRVU&index=1&list=PLE5CC5A2C282E06B9[/MEDIA]

In the 80s I used to play in a band with Keith and Jez from the Utah Saints, as well as Chris Haskett (Rollins Band) and Andy Spearpoint from the New Fast Automatic Daffodils. And bizarrely, we had Jay Rayner on keyboards!

I was in a band once that got paid. Just the once, mind. Usually we had he get out of there sharpish before the audience started throwing heavier things!

Albums I couldn't be without? Jamaalaeen Tacuma - Dreamscape Bootsy's Rubber Band - Aah, the name is Bootsy. baby! Praxis - Transmutandis Zapp - 2 Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco

[quote name='jonsebass' timestamp='1406057133' post='2507943'] Id steer away from superglue. I played a gig on a Friday night and was struggling to hear myself so I dug in more. It was in my early playing days so I blistered quite badly. My amp wasnt the loudest or best and there was no room on the pa for a di. [/quote] The secret with superglue is to use it unless you know that your fingers aren't going to blister!

Give it away by the Chillis? Or Pump it up by Elvis Costelo?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1405860222' post='2505862'] ... how was that gig? [/quote] After the laughter had stopped, the drummer sorted me out with a spoon and some warm water.

Here's mine... Doubles up as music listening and movie watching room.

I've been using superglue for years. I put it on the tips of the left hand fingers first, and when it's dry (!) do the right thumb (tip and cuticle need it most), then 1st, 2ned and 3rd finger tips. Means I can play even if the fingers are already blistered; after all, super glue is often used in medicine to bind wounds together! Within a day or 2 it all comes off as cyano-acrylate is water-soluble. And I've only stuck my fingers together once...

If you want proper no-tune guitar, there's only one man for it (RIP!): [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOGdAFxe9_0[/MEDIA]

As Soundcloud works at a very "lossy" 128kbbs (cd is 720!) it throws lots of info away - here's a good guide: [url="http://www.justmastering.com/article-mixingformp3.php"]http://www.justmastering.com/article-mixingformp3.php[/url] And I've jus checked my mix against the uploaded version. The distortion was due to my PC speakers being over-driven, but the 'net version is lacking a lot of the extra air'n'space I put in for super stereo, as well as some of the sub bass at 25-30Hz. there's also a strange hump a couple of minutes in - possibly compression or limiting artefacts from my mix? Should have compressed the bass at the recording stage rather than trying to squeeze every last ounce out! Still, it's good enough for sport...

Just noticed it seems to have got quite distorted going over to Soundcloud... Shame as I took lots of time making sure nowt went above 0dB. Will have to delete it after I've dropped the levels a bit, or perhaps check on my main stereo to see it's not just my PC!

Cheers! No chemical assistance for me for many years! Apart from the occasional bottle of Castle9 or a wee Bruichladdich... But I did spend a lot of time at Ozrics gigs in my mid-youth!

Been busy this weekend.... Mine's a bass improv done after listening to a bit of Jack Cassidy and his hippy stoners! Drums and keys added later. Only samples arethe bare bones of the drums. https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/kinigl-of-caerbannog

I use a Focusrite scarlett - it's an excellent piece of kit with very low noise which allows you to connect instruments, mics, line level sources using either 1/4" or XLR leads. It also does D-A and A-D conversion and comes with Ableton Lite as well as having very low latency (i.e. delay while recording). All for £120!

Like! And what's in the case?

Couldn't open it as it's an I-phone ipb perl applet file...

Trujillo should have been on with the Infectious Grooves or Suicidals...

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