Leonard Smalls

I'll have to play mine to a couple of folks first to make sure it's not total cack... It's my first attempt at mixing and solo without the band!

I've been fiddling too... Can't work out how to do drop-ins for minor booboos, so it might have to stay! Perhaps a horn sample will distract...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399491773' post='2444805'] I saw that - didn't they spread a CD with marmalade or something as well? [/quote] Aye, but only on the label side;). But one of my favourite tweaks (at $299!) is the Clever Little Clock, "The Clever Little Clock's operation actually has to do with time itself - how the past catches up with us -- like a predator." [url=http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina42.htm]Full technical explanation here![/url]

If you really want to you can get your £10k Nordost Valhalla cables cryo-treated, or even better, "burned in" on a burning-in machine then cryo treated for ultimate foo-fidelity. And you'd need ultimate hifi fuses to get the best from your mains lead: [url="http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/net/net.html"]http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/net/net.html[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399470300' post='2444537'] You won't be able to afford it if you buy a Quantum Clip! This is beyond a joke, surely!!? [/quote] At least Belt's tweaks were usually free or at least cheap - frinstance aligning all your screwheads to magnetic north, or placing 5p bits on the corners of your equipment (really!). However, these chaps make believers in improvements through changing mains cables look positively sane: http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm

We had 2 appalling gigs in a band I was in many years ago... One was at the Greyhound in Fulham; we were due to have at least 3 record company types there to check us out. We were so excited that we got completely off our faces and all played at different speeds, stopped at different times and the keyboard player fell over. We didn't get a deal. And the other one was at the Powerhaus. Beforehand we decided to go to the curry house round the corner, and foolishly had the all-you-can-eat buffet. All of us had to sit down for the entire gig, except for the singer who had to leave the stage to throw up!

Have we had Prince Charles yet? [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGNW6UQD10[/MEDIA]

Great playing, appalling vid!

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1392569675' post='2370142'] This? [/quote] Aye! [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Souls-Material/dp/B0000057RJ/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1392904313&sr=1-2&keywords=material+seven+souls]Cracking Album[/url].

I'd recommend a listen to Material's "Seven Souls" album. It's got WilIiam Burroughs giving his stream of consciousness over an ambient Bill Laswell backing. Cracking!

You might get a Linn Axis or Basik for the money - I had an Axis many years ago and it's a right musical performer. Other options are a Systemdek, or a Technics Sp10/1200 if you're lucky!

The Portable Appliance Testing Course is pretty easy for anyone with even a hint of a brain, but will cost at least £200. (though when I was doing my Electrical Inspecting and Testing Course the lecturer told us about a chap who'd failed the PAT course and tried to sue; he lost) A decent [url=http://www.pat-testers.co.uk/pat-testers-3/kewtech-kt71-24]TESTER[/url] that will do most equipment (including IT type stuff inc digital rack kit) will set you back around £300. So if you think you'll have getting on for £500 worth of testing done it's worthwhile - bearing in mind you can get yourself a sideline as a tester as well!

Me n'all...

We had quite a robust discussion - I prefer 4 string basses and actually like old amps and cabs despite my bad back... After all, bass payers made some pretty good noises with them in the past! Still, I prefer a strongly-held view so long as it's not hectoring or allowing no alternatives. So we got on well, and I left with a cracking pair of FX pedals!

More leftfield Bootsy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tod9_PZezpA

Larry! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUYxksujhaA[/MEDIA]

It's a very diverse field - something for everyone! And only 7 votes so far...

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1387823076' post='2316160'] Read this: [url="http://www.avsforum.com/t/1353217/speaker-shootout"]http://www.avsforum....peaker-shootout[/url] Or the first page, anyway. The DR200 and DR250 are my designs, fully horn loaded, not just the tweeters. True, EQ is an absolute necessity, but that's true of all speakers, let alone high sensitivity pro-sound horns, because there are no rooms with flat response. Not that I recommend pro-sound PA cabs for home stereo/theater, this guys system is overkill to the nth degree. But there's no such thing as horn 'honk' with a well designed horn, be it a tweeter or a subwoofer. There are a lot of poorly done horns, though, so the notion is understandable. [/quote] Fair enough... But looking at the frequency response curves in the link, they are far from flat! So unless you're terribly lucky with your room response an awful lot of eq is going to be needed to get anywhere near even, which is a long way from "straight wire with gain"... However, for PA gear near enough is usually good enough, it's mainly about high efficiency; I'm from a post production studio background and we rarely used horn loaded speakers, simply because they became terribly expensive if they were accurate. I'm not saying horns are no good, the TADs we had were about the best speaker I've ever heard in any context!

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1387726850' post='2314919'] (Its almost there is some unwritten law against using a large flared horn in a "bass" speaker, when surely it is the obviously thing to do when designing a flat response 2-way system ?. [/quote] The flat response part is the difficult bit with horns! From my experience of hifi horn speakers, unless the horn is seriously well-designed it can sound properly honky - as if you'd cupped your hands and shouted through them. Fair enough, it's louder and therefore more efficient, but not necessarily accurate...

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1387709504' post='2314706'] thats great fun bud , I like it lots , it brewing up to be another quality field again this month [/quote] Cheers! And funnily enough, we wrote it at bedtime while somewhat the worse for wear...

The boys have been busy - better but probably still not completely finished: [url="https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/bedtime-latest-mix"]Dredd & The Badass Weeds latest[/url]

Bootsy Jamaaladeen Tacuma Larry Graham Jonas Hellborg Les Claypool Bill Laswell Norman Watt-Roy Robert Trujillo Stanley Clarke Big Tony Fisher

[QUOTE="Xilddx"]If unknown music was interesting there would be more of us Basschat members checking out our fellows in the [b]Share Your Music[/b] thread in the Recording section, or listening and voting in the monthly [b]Basschat Composition Competitiion[/b]. As it is, hardly anyone does. So all this slagging of X-Factor just looks like ignorant hypocrisy to me. [/QUOTE] Especially now I've put my band in!!!

Was sent a rough mix this morning - as it probably won't be completely ready in time, here's what we've got! [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/bedtime-congas-arriba"]Dredd and the Badass Weed[/url]

Excellent! Though it reminded me of a halfway house between Stump and Primus...