Leonard Smalls

Still considering - all have considerable merits! And big thanks to Bilbo for voting for my "song"... I was kind of expecting [i]nul points[/i]...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411147122' post='2556992'] [size=3]([i]Although, leg-pulling aside, [/i]y[/size][i]ou're probably going to get far more votes than me, so what would I know..! [/i][size=3])[/size] [/quote] I'm going for the Christmas no.1! And you'll be pleased to hear I deleted 2 extra drum tracks as well as 2 drone tracks... I'll listen to a bit less Derek Bailey and Company before next month.

Audacity? Wassat? I almost called it "Takin' The P%££"... Luckily, the length of the "song" was dictated by the length of the bass noodle I extruded. All 3 drum tracks and the 2 keyboard tracks were done in 1 take each, as you can probably tell... And for a change there's no samples or loops, as if anyone would be foolish enough to produce one like that!

Can I just apologise for my entry this month? [url="https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/unbalanced"]https://soundcloud.c...weed/unbalanced[/url]

[quote name='funkgod' timestamp='1410901246' post='2554585'] sounds like wiring hell, esp with a bloke breathing down your neck wanting it done in 30 mins here is a nostalgic trip for you. [url="http://www.filmhistory.at/e_magneton.htm"]http://www.filmhisto.../e_magneton.htm[/url] [/quote] Luckily the bloke was very happy as it was a 60 minute programme... He was expecting at least 10 passes, so instead of paying 11hours he paid 2.5! As for plugging, I used every single patchcord in the place, plus all 20 available parallel strips and 3 station-synced timecode generators! And we all loved those mag film bays - seriously good engineering; in fact the quality was at least on a par with Nagra!

Many years ago I used to work for BBC Sound in the transfer and dubbing areas... We had Albrecht 16/35mm mag film bays, Otari and Studer 24track 2" machines, Nagra T and 4S 1/4" machines plus a host of video stuff. My personal record for sync was 19 Albrechts playing 16mm tracks onto the Otari, with 6 of those tracks also going to Nagra Ts, plus an Albrecht with film head playing pictures and 2 mixes from the 16mm mag tracks onto D3 and BetaSP video machines, and those pictures and main mix going onto a bank of 10 VHS machines. Took me 1.5 hours to set up - serious plugging job - but was a fine sight with all those machines playing and recording in perfect sync!

I'm a thumb and 2/3 finger player as well... Though I tend to play nearer the neck. For some reason, when I taught myself to play, that's what came naturally. I also alternate between a muted slap and thumb pluck, who knows why but it seems to (mostly) work!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1410022746' post='2545486'] Well there's no folk in here , but you are welcome to tell me what you think it is [url="https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/tweet"]https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/tweet[/url] I hope you enjoy [/quote] Very entertaining! There's morte than a hint of TV sitcom theme music about it... So far I'm headed determinedly free-form-ward with inspiration provided by the unbalanced 3 phase shown, plus Woody Woodpecker and Scooby Doo (obviously!).

Big thumbs up from me!

The pull of free improv is strong this month... Not sure if I can fight it, but I would never sink so low as to long for folkiness!

I think I'm definitely going for last place this month... My thoughts appear to be heading more and more Brotzmann/Bailey-ward! Especially if I get my banjo out! (and no, that's not a euphemism)

Leftfield is good! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gNCjjBJ86E[/media]

Excellently groovy!

I find that lots of folks find a genre or era they like, and stick with it... It's always easier to say "kids nowadays haven't got a clue" - just like their parents said before them! Frinstance, in 1990ish I was in a punk-funk band; the keyboard player was only into Led Zep or the usual 70s stuff. According to him everything else was rubbish. But he also didn't attempt to listen to anything new, because he'd already decided it'd be cack. Who knows why he was in a punk-funk band - we even made him dress up in daft clothes (not as daft as I wore though!).

Does the Zoom have a digital out? If it has you can input that into Ableton and use that as a master clock.

I've been listening to my Derek Bailey and Peter Brotzmann albums in anticipation. You can run but you can't hide!

I felt that you need foot-tapping to go with head chopping! After all, our guest bedroom has the double delights hanging on the wall of The Beheading of Lady Jane Gray and the truly joyous Witches At Their Incantations. Our visitors sleep well... As for compression rates, 28kHz would allow a maximum frequency of 12.72kHz. Even my half-century-old-increasingly-flappy ears can hear higher than that! At 96kHz it sounded really open with space between all the instruments; you could even hear the 4 individual basses in the last bit... And horn-wise, the 'bonist and I will hopefully be getting together with a local (lady!) drummer and electronic whizz to form the Bucknell Noise Collective. Shropshire folkies will love it!

I'd like to apologise for any distress caused by my entry this month. I blame Soundcloud for not allowing 96kHz upload... https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/tired-and-emotional

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1407841527' post='2524481'] In a word: no! You've been around 'ere long enough to know better [/quote] I'll have to take out the sousaphone solo then!

Most excellent! Does that mean I can get away with a long mix of my headache-inducing opus? Though y'all probably wouldn't thank me for it!

I've just recorded something with a trombone playing mate which my Mrs describes as "like a building headache"! Just a bit of mixing to do before I inflict it on y'all...

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!