Leonard Smalls

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1383261315' post='2262452'] And the bass he played was my old hand-me-down , I seem to recall it was the first bass to make an appearance in the school , mainly for assemblies , till you youngsters got ideas above your station [/quote] I remember it was an old Hohner violin bass with rubber strings... Was it ceremonially burned?

Nobody did music o level (I'm that old!) at my school, or at least there was a tiny minority. IIRC there were some recorders... Though we did have a (brief) 6th form band playing Neil Young-ish stuff, with me on keyboards and Lurksalot's brother on bass!

All musical innovation over the last hundred or so years has come from jazz. Unless it's come from somewhere else.

I've managed to slowly sneak jazz onto our garden centre sound system... Started with a bit of Jack Teagarden, Sidney Bechet etc (we have lots of older customers). Then it was a bit of relatively mainstream be bop (Miles' "Kind of Blue", with a bit of Horace Silver, Chet Baker etc). About 3 months ago I put Miles' "In a Silent Way" (thought of as highly modern back in 1969ish!), and I'm toying with putting Bitches Brew on. So far we're up to some tracks off James Carter's "Layin' in the Cut" (with Jamaaladeen on bass), and I'm not going to stop until we've got Last Exit and Derek Bailey on. Unless folks run out screaming, or worse, sales drop. But we've had lots of compliments on our musical choices - it's an ipod set to shuffle with jazz, plus Vivaldi (not boring at all bassoon and lute concertos), Bruch, Beethoven (late quartets!), Mozart (mainly piano concertos) with Scubert and Bach for good measure. And some Parliament to really put the cat among the pigeons...

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1382202718' post='2249289'] One should solo at every inappropriate moment throughout a song, the more inappropriate the better. Showboating and overplaying are becoming a lost art form up down the pubs and clubs of this (insert adjectives here) country. It's even better if you've no idea what you're doing. Soloing in a completely different key makes for great mirth. [/quote] Aye! I like to play [u]all[/u] the notes at the same time, while the rest of the band point at me and shout "bass" every 8 beats. Often, I find that being dressed as a bishop means getting away with playing all the wrong notes, all of the time.

Ask the chaps at [url="http://www.hifiwigwam.com"]www.hifiwigwam.com[/url] - there's a wealth of knowledge available there! Be careful though, as you may get the bug and end up with a £30k+ mega-system before you know it...

Coolest record? Probably my gold flexi-single of "Your Attention Please" by the Scars... Or maybe the gatefold 7" single "Iggy Pop's Jacket" by Those Naughty Lumps.

Y'all should check out hifi geeks for extreme flouncing should their favourite cable/single ended triode amp/horn loudspeaker//cd/vinyl be dissed.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1369310252' post='2087566'] But how much does it colour the sound? [/quote] That depends on the finish you go for - you can get them in white as well It's designed to be a reference speaker, and if Bob Ludwig of Gateway is using them (with 4kW of amps!) it's a good bet that they're pretty uncoloured. All speakers are, in the end, a compromise, so it's all about doing the best you can, which Eggleston do! Whether they're better than a large TAD monitor system, or a Genesis 1.1 or the Transmission Audio Ultimate ($2m), or the Kharma Grand Enigma ($1m) would probably be very difficult to find out...

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1369305597' post='2087474'] And the PMC XBD are my wet dream speaker if I'm honest, love them, so much that I'm going to have to go and have a little sit down now until my legs stop trembling (not that I could ever afford them or get them in the house, or past the good lady, but thats irrelevant)[/quote] If you're going to have a wet dream speaker, it might as well be a proper one at significantly greater cost than the piddly BB5XBD at £58k including amps. The Eggleston Ivy Wetdream is an eminently reasonable $100k without amps, as used by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering:

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1369161799' post='2085693'] Big floorstanding transmission line (as opposed to ported) speakers. [b]Good transmission lines go deeper with less bumps in the low end frequency response[/b]. Mine are reasonable examples. Because I love to hear bass cleanly. And because I am worth it :-D [/quote] Arguably! There's a number of ways of producing bass extension, and even bass response - all of them are a compromise of some sort. IIRC, a fully executed Transmission Line needs to have a line of at least 1/4length of the lowest wavelength desired. So if you want 17Hz you'll need a TL of 5m, which of course is quite difficult to get into a cabinet that will fit in your living room. Clever engineering can get round this to an extent, but then it also can in both ported, sealed box and isobaric designs. My Dittons rely on a 12" bass unit, large volume and a 12" passive radiator to get to a -6dB figure of 18Hz. My Leema Xaviers use a very long throw 6.5" driver and a low bass crossover point plus large volume to get 28Hz at -3dB. My dream speaker (Eggleston Ivy) uses 6 12" drivers in an isobaric (i.e. pressure driven) configuration to get 13Hz at -4dB. PMCs BB5, an excellent speaker and none more black, uses a transmission line to get a "usable frequency" of 17Hz...

I listen and do what I could laughingly call mixing via Bow/Bryston amplification into either Leema Xavier or Ditton 66 speakers (the Dittons will do 18Hz, which is handy if I'm octaving down...)

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1368887319' post='2082700'] This answer comes up every time someone asks about pat certs, i[b]f the venue has either buildings insurance or a local authority entertainments licence it almost certainly will, s[/b]ure the guys on here acting the big shot because the Saturday night girl didn't know if the venue did or not sound cool on here but in reality why would the staff know? The electricians will have carried out the tests for the owner (not tenant) so the boss of the venue might not even know about it, you will still look a Dick when they produce it one day [/quote] Not necessarily! I did one about 6 years ago for my local music pub and he was so appalled at how much it cost (£300) that he hasn't had one done since, nor have his insurance or local authority asked for one. For the record, it took 4 x 4 hour mornings as it involves virtually taking the consumer unit apart (he had 3!), testing every circuit fully, and inspecting the connections in at least 30% of fittings, more if you find problems - which I did... However, if he has a fault that causes injury or a fire his insurance might be interested in why no recent periodic inspection, as it used to be called, had been done. It's also recommended that domestic properties have one done every 10 years - how many folks do that?

You should ask the pub if you can see a copy of their electrical installation condition report, and ask if they have it done at the recommended 3 yearly interval...

If we're doing a before and after: Later, with just time to change into a different type of dress:

Thinking of buying [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-Custom-Chris-Squire-Triple-Neck-Bass-Replica-by-Hiroshi-Kid-Kids-Guitars-/330914318478?pt=Guitar&hash=item4d0c07c88e"]THIS[/url] Or is it too silly?

[quote name='Jah Wibble' timestamp='1367276078' post='2063693'] Well a competent person would be someone who has read and understood one of these [url="http://electrical.theiet.org/books/inspection-test/in-service-inspection-4th-ed.cfm"]http://electrical.th...tion-4th-ed.cfm[/url] Thats why I suggested people have ALL their gear fully checked at least once every 5 years, and then carry out user checks/visual inspections more regularly. You don't need to have completed PAT training to carry out these checks. [/quote] As a sparkie, I have to agree with this! There's a lot of misconceptions about PAT (shan't say PAT Testing!) which seem to have become set in stone, probably because the HSE has done nowt to dispel them. It's also a good moneyspinner for certain sparkies/dedicated testers, and something for jobsworths at venues to lay the law down about. Legally, all you have to do is to ensure that electrical equipment is maintained in order to prevent danger. Which basically means checking operation of the equipment, and checking for damage (especially cables) or loose wires (in the plug). Essentially all a PAT does in addition to this is test the earth continuity (unless double insulated), and test insulation resistance, if there's a problem with either of these it'll usually show up in a visual check first. Here it is from the [url="http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm"]Horse's Mouth[/url]

Urban Methodology - Freeform Funky Freqs (i.e. Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Vernon Reid/Calvin Weston) Suicidal for Life - Suicidal Tendencies Ah, the name is Bootsy Baby - Bootsy's Rubber Band Best of James Brown Schubert Impromptus

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1365077303' post='2034892'] I wondered what Pope Benedict was going to do in his retirement. Glad to see you've got him on drums [/quote] For an old boy he can definitely rock!

I find that platform boots and a tall hat definitely help...

I'm 60 miles away as the crow flies... But it's our nearest sea!

Jamaaladeen Tacuma...

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364634059' post='2028994'] Most, if not all, of those people write their own music. I bet you a quid that Jessie J will be around a long time as writer, producer and performer. [/quote] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Rihanna]Rihanna[/url] is listed as "co-writer" (her name's Robyn Fenty) on a number of her songs. How much she actually wrote of each song is a different matter entirely!

Bought a Focusrite/Ableton combo... According to Music Matters it should do more than I want it to!

Just wondering what I would need to record my bass and analogue effects onto a computer? What I want to be able to do is play along to a sequence that our guitarist has sent, record basslines with various FX in sync with the sequence and send it back to him. I'm familiar with recording techniques - but I left TV sound recording while Nagras etc were still king. Presumably I'd need some sort of analogue-digital conversion, but I probaby don't need too much in the way of portable studio as it's all going off to someone who knows what they're doing...