Leonard Smalls

I'd have recommended buying a copy of James Carter's "Layin' in the cut"..Features Jamaaladeen Tacuma seriously funking it up

[quote name='BirchTree' timestamp='1464021870' post='3055827'] perhaps, a few more pieces done by souls tardier than me ? ) [/quote] You rang? http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-night-bus Thought I'd go for a bit of oddness this month!

Despite being a touch wet and cheesey for me, I still enjoyed it - mainly because of the lovely little touches like the groovy 2 second drum roll...

[quote name='RalphDWilson' timestamp='1463782560' post='3054116'] And a confession - there is no bass guitar on the track. Is that grounds for automatic disqualification? [/quote] Not many basses in this month's entries so far! I've finally made a start - been busy with a new band who can't quite decide if it's funk, jazz or experimental noise it wants to produce. It's a mixture so far! Anyway, y'al'll be pleased to hear mine's got bass, and no brooding future-synths, just a sense of oddness and some Tibetan roaring... Hopefully ready by Monday!

Excellent! I've already got on of your songs on my soundcloud playlist...

Good'n'funky!

I've had a fiddle... https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/crispy-fried-noodles-with-meat

I feel that if someone starts dancing instead of stroking their chin or fiddling with their black polo-neck, then we've somehow failed. However, folks do tend to dance to "Turn o he Left", "Insomnia", "Pass the Pig", "Hammer" and "Thang", despite our best efforts at scowling.

Bit funky, annoying piano, Antwan The Swan doing the one tune he can "sing" - typical New Chillis... Much preferred it when they had some [i][i]cojones[/i] - [/i]I remember seeing them at the Clarendon in Hammersmith, 1987ish, then later at the Mean Fiddler (when Hillel had to leave the stage due to "issues" (!) and te other 3 had to continue - awesome bass playing!) and they definitely rocked then. But then my favourite albums were RHCP, Freakey Styley and Mother's Milk...

I've never played with a pick - tend to use thumb and 3 fingers. It's a case of do what you wanna do!

Lawks! You couldn't slide a king-sized Rizla between the front runners! Is it going to be a 4 way tie?

S'all very tight again - excellent stuff from all once more!

Oops! (Sorry Skol, your post in the future is now a bit more confusing, though I'll bet further mentions a few posts on will create a predestination paradox...)

I had tennis elbow in the right arm and golfer's elbow in the left (i.e. inside and outside of elbows respectively). Which is a shame as I hate both games! I had physio, which mainly consisted of kneading the tendons between elbow and wrist, with a recommendation to do 3x15 reps/day of downward facing wrist curls using a dyna-band (i.e. fat elastic strip), as well gently stretching the wrist, mainly by pushing the palms together and holding for 30 secs as often as poss.

I remember many years ago we were auditioning a drummer; we felt we were going places and needed a good drummer with a similar musical outlook to us. So we gave the gig to the first one who came in and rolled a fat one! However, it only took one rehearsal to notice (his long hair, tight denims and Whitesnake tshirt should have given it away) that he wasn't into playing punk-funk. Not only that, but he had a controlling girlfriend who made David St. Hubbins' Janine look like Mother Theresa...

And people will still pay £thousands for a 60s bass!

Cheers Rob! Very kind words, though I'd say I'm sloppy and pull the strings too hard!

More racquet from me... https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/miso

I've finally finished faffing around, have uploaded a cut-to-length vid: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0povnDhVa4&feature=youtu.be[/MEDIA] and a Soundcloud with a slightly different mix [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/kamikaze-girl"]http://soundcloud.co...d/kamikaze-girl[/url] Inspiration was the vid, song started as an improvisation over a disco beat while watching vid, the 2nd take of that became the song. Lyrics were written after all the music had been finished. Bass is the trusty Wal, drums by me and Mr EZ Drummer, keys by me, vox and lyrics by me, guitars are edited samples.

Rules is for squares, man! Next y'all'll be telling me I can't do just the" press record and stop" while Stanley Clarke does the "play bass" bit in the middle...

ShotCut seems to be very powerful for freeware - as it's open source there is no master/pro version, it's all there for free. It takes some working out, but then they all do. Basically it seems to do much of the same stuff as Avid, in a slightly more convoluted way, but with no cost unless you choose to donate. There's no upgrades, no "in-app" purchases, just freeware!

The problem is that music may be listened to on everything from a medium wave radio to a £100k hifi... So monitoring quality is paramount as you need to know both what's on your recording, as well as what's on your mix - it's then largely a question of experience as to how to make it sound as good as possible on a wide range of kit. Many studios will have a large main monitor for the first, plus something appalling like Yamaha NS10s for the 2nd. If you can get it to sound good on NS10s it'll sound good on anything! As an illustration, when I worked in BBC sound NICAM was just starting to be popular. Before this, broadcasts had an absolute lower limit of 50Hz, as, barring the occasional simulcast, it would only ever be heard on a TV speaker. Then we started noticing through our own home NICAM set-ups that, especially on period dramas, there was some low frequency rumble. It turned out that the large Rogers LS55/8 had little output below around 45Hz, so traffic or train rumble wouldn't be heard in the dubbing theatre, but would be on the NICAM signal. The answer was to filter out everything below 50Hz, until new monitors for all teh dubbing theatres could be bought... (active Harbeth Monitor 40s, btw)

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1460455897' post='3025806'] Next time I buy a pair of monitors [i](which will be in the distant future...)[/i], I'll probably save up for a pair with a sealed/portless cabinet - i.e. no bass port. [/quote] It's all swings and roundabouts... Theoretically, a sealed box will deliver "better" bass, as it's all coming from the driver - unless it's designed to resonate in specific ways... However, a poorly-designed sealed box will be shown a clean pair of heels by a ported/transmission line/resonator of good design. The problem with a sealed box is that in order to get extension, you need size... My Leema Xaviers - designed by a chap I used to work with at the Beeb - manage -3dB at 28Hz using one 6.5" (Scanspeak) bass driver (pistonic excursion of more than 25mm!), in a box 105cm high and 25cm wide by the use of an enormous 100mm port in the front. However, they're still quite big, need an amp, and would still set you back over a grand 2nd hand! But if you want sealed box active, aren't worried about WAF (wife acceptability factor!), and max bang for the buck, I'd recomment [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Event-Opal-Active-Studio-Monitor-Single/BGS?origin=product-ads&utm_campaign=*PLA+Shop+-+All+Products&utm_medium=vertical_search&network=google&adgroup=**All+Products&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=14860d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=62124249557&gclid=CLKDzoWCicwCFUgq0wodpBcHCQ#full-des"]Event Opals[/url]. They sound most excellent indeed, but are £2300/pair with bass down to 35Hz. Or if you want WAF, serious wireless design, 750W plus bass down to 16Hz in a tiny package, Devialet Phantoms ar around £2800 a pair!

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1460388808' post='3025251'] I know what you mean.... There isn't a lot in either to inspire. The "Jono" pic is quite a personal thing and the video is a bit stop start to provide any rhythm. I'm gonna persevere as well. There is something about the "Jono" pic that's making me feel rueful. Rueful is the exchange student intern here at work. He doesn't mind. He knows it's in the interest of Art, dammit man......, [/quote] I've done something about the spirit of the adventure - basically in praise of the crazy fools! However, it's 56 seconds longer than the video, so I've downloaded ShotCut (good piece of kit, btw - open source and free...) - the question is do I have time to learn how to use it and edit more footage in? Either way, it's funky and only needs minor tweaks (some would say my dad rap could be tweaked out altogether!).

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1460054491' post='3022213'] . Jono is represented by the trombone and vibraphone; I hope it's a good match..? [/quote] He wouldn't have cared either way - he always seemed to enjoy loud AC/DC. But he's barely in my song, apart from a passing allusion to an "air dog". But Machiavelli and Jean - Claudia Killy both get a mention!