Leonard Smalls

Your Attention Please - The Scars (I still have this on gold flexi disc!)

I had a very musically diverse day today... This morning I rehearsed with the punk band, breaking in a new guitarist. This afternoon I went to a local church hall to see a chap called Julian Perkins play Bach's Goldberg Variations on a harpsichord brought up specially from London. He did it beautifully (though rather heretically, I prefer to hear Bach played on an actual piano!). And this evening I'll be recording some funky slap bass for my EDMFunkRock band's upcoming difficult Second Record...

Blockheads - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Lourdes Knows - 2Pac

I've done a few charity gigs for free - though being in only originals bands I often get paid very little or nowt as well depending on the amount of folks who come in. However, y'all would be appalled at the level of expenses that established stars get for charity events; the usual fee might be waived but private jet, champagne rider and Michelin level dinners are all there...

Atomic Dog - George Clinton

Sarsippius Ark -Infectious Grooves Serious Rob Trujillo-ness!

Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys

Spank-a-Lee - Herbie Hancock

Unless, of course, it's Mudvayne... And I tend to use the G string all the time. It's useful for excessive widdling.

Be Stiff - Devo

Veal meet again - Vera Lynn

Same with the Ozrics! Excellent gigs...

Join the Army - Suicidal Tendencies

He's a brave boy!

Back in the early 90s we thought that in order to impress a number of scouts (that's record company ones, not boys in shorts) we'd need to be uninhibited and exciting on stage. Which of course meant about 6 pints and a noseful of coke each. We played abysmally... We never saw any scouts again! But saying that, in the same band we'd always have some weed at rehearsals and gigs (actually, weed wasn't that available - it tended to be more of the soapbar solid variety which meant it wasn't usually very strong compared to the skunk available nowadays!). And we played well - our live recording in our living room still sounds OK now! (If you want a laugh! ) However, I have a max of 1 beer (*) before playing now, and haven't smoked any dope in decades! *that's often due to driving though - recent gig in Chester saw at least 2 pints and a good glug of tequila before playing as the hotel was only 100m away! No decent cock-ups either...

Egg Man - Beastie Boys

The Hardest Fart - Olivia Dean

https://www.emporiumhifi.com/head-office-norfolk-suffolk/manticore-mantra-turntable-with-logic-datum-ii-arm/

Boys and Girls - Blur

I remember many years ago, when I had a Leak amp and Richard Allen speakers, I wasn't get much bass due to low powered amp and relatively low efficiency speakers no matter what positions the bass and treble controls were at - it just sounded completely unnatural and a bit unpleasant. So I took the tape out and (1st hifi heresy alert) plugged it via phono to stereo 1/4" jack lead into my (2nd hifi heresy alert) Marshall Jubilee bass amp, which was using a large Yamaha folded horn cab with 15" speaker. Turning all the bass amp's tone controls down apart from 50 and 120Hz gave an altogether more pleasing amount of surprisingly natural bottom end...

Depends on what you want! I'd say warning flags are raised by the fact it says "Surround power Amplifier" in the manual, but only has 2 channels. And that it claims 400W without specifying whether that's peak music power output, RMS output or some other vague measurement. And the only quoted spec is a signal:noise of 80dB - this is pretty low. My hifi amp is 115dB! So I wouldn't call it hifi in any way - you're probably better off sticking with what you've got complete with graphic in tape loop as previously mentioned.

For proper control I'd want something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366056421870?_skw=klark+teknik&itmmeta=01KE1G4GPMCA0H01QNA5TR8V95&hash=item553aa9b9ee:g:XrcAAeSwMzppPVFi&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8NHOg0D50eDiCdi%2FfP0r02sB47D3H41nPodwVckMlypGUGuKHHAl0KoHThrbEeLFOmMMzPBbmuC0WA4L0V%2Fw8kYuK7DWrNsdViIcyv220diFs1RsVMqNXxq91zHZwaeKrjjZknv1so8S8XEmRQq3TmwRw6OjpzRTz3LIb7daQy7uEEyQ%2BXuHtQsbTgeud6gIhmZMLpGfvpMACVaBrc5R3iFfiCIWj%2FGSyoZsyI%2B0ZEad6uHkC9d96nf%2F8wvGuQNXj3%2BxZtq817vvkSObI80xG3sYJeNdT0IViYcib%2BIkDuj34YzACT2L9LmZ%2BhbLWJA4%2BA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7KLkrDwZg It's the industry-standard studio eq...

You'd need it for that screechy treble! 😁😉😃