Leonard Smalls

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360009034' post='1963557'] I bought that cd when it came out but it's nearly as far off the original posters quest as this is: [/quote] Nearly! Either way, not a bad bit of fusion...

Bit of a mishmash for me too, but the nearest 2 are: Public Image - PiL Ah, the name is Bootsy Baby - Bootsy's Rubber Band And there's hints of Dreamscape - Jamaaladeen Tacuma. But obviously not as good!

How's about some mid-90s German fusion? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atX9ETdi1vw[/media] And if you can find a copy, try Alphonse Mouzon's "Mind Transplant" with Tommy Bolin on guitar...

[quote name='Protium' timestamp='1359071504' post='1949633'] [b]I'm not convinced on climate change [/b]either, but saying sea levels are rising due to putting things in the sea is absurd, sorry. It's probably negated by what we take out of the sea anyway. [/quote] Perhaps you need to see why there is a concensus of scientists on the issue! [url=http://royalsociety.org/policy/publications/2010/climate-change-summary-science/]Royal Society Summary[/url].

I remember years ago when we supported Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine at some of their gigs, they'd managed to do 350 shows in a year, and that included carrying and setting up their own gear. Admittedly, the gear only consisted of 2 guitars, 2 small combos and a DAT machine all shorhorned into a Mini along with them and manager, but plenty all the same!

Details [url=http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/wilkojohnson/tour2013.htm]HERE[/url].

[quote name='WalMan' timestamp='1358504216' post='1940284'] And there's your problem with stuff like Chic, fun as it might be, but for a broadly rock band I would have thought that would be too much of a leap. Then again look at what Gun did with Word Up or Thunder with Funky Music. Both in a basic rock stylee, but you can mess with the bass underneath it to give it some groove instead of a straight bash. [/quote] My old punk-funk band used to do "We Are Family" as quite a heavy rock song!

Sort of 70s, sort of funk, but not obvious, "East River" by the Brecker Brothers...

Can't be doing with Bongos. Or Foderas. Or Hofner violin basses. Out of those, at least a Fodera plays well; I've had tea chest basses that play better than a Bongo! But then I've got a Wal, and a pointy headstocked Parker...

[quote name='3below' timestamp='1358108033' post='1933323'] Francis, 3below - Kerry, Powys [/quote] Not far from me! Leonard Smalls, Clun, Shropshire

Not all musicals are absolute cack. Just most of them!

However, most Hollywood films are dribbling with the most tasteless of cheese, and often define lowest common denominator!

Personally I feel that musicals tend toward both the worst of music and the worst of cinema/theatre...

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1357892070' post='1930004'] Slightly OT, but I recently read in another thread that it is not a good idea to put pedal FX in your amp's effects loop - and that these are designed for "line level" rack units. I've never heard that before and just wondered what people's experience was in that area? [/quote] I hadn't heard that either, but spose it makes sense! My Qtron seems to work fine there, though it distorts rather easily. I'll do another fiddle and see whether the Rocktron and Qtron should be in line with the bass, and FX770 into the FX loop...

I use a Yamaha FX770 as a pre-amp and compressor with 5 presets in it. The I use a Rocktron Utopia immediately after that - most used sounds are distortion, wah, phase, octave and chorus, and in the amp FX loop I have a QTron just in case it needs that little bit extra...

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1357659210' post='1926167'] I remember reading interviews with loads of producers and musicians in "International Musician & Recording World" in the 70's and 80's and they all seemed to mix using auratone cubes, which was a tiny plastic speaker and apparently gave them an idea of what their music would sound like on a transistor radio. As that was where most people heard music, it seemed logical, as if it sounded good on a tiny radio, it would sell more. [/quote] Many studios use a Yamaha NS11 for that; as the NS11 is officially the most unpleasantly screechy speaker in the world, the reasoning goes that if it sounds good on those, it'll sound good on anything! However, when I worked in TV post production studios some mixers would only mix on the NS11s, and ignore the main speaks. Which meant that some mixes had vastly overblown bass and huge cut in treble! Bit like Dr. Dre headphones

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1357652034' post='1925997'] There's a world below 'bottom' E! Used to be, back in the good old days anyway (return to 1st post in this thread) [/quote] I've had fun with PAs before by setting my octaver to 1 down... And I've got a pair of emergency fallback hifi speakers that can easily cope with it!

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1357651443' post='1925975'] Ever heard an MP3 of a 38Hz sine wave? [/quote] Who needs 38Hz anyway. After all the lowest note you can get (i.e. bottom E on a proper bass guitar) is only 41Hz. Any lower and you're weird, or an organist!

I gave up listening to music years ago; I only listen to test tones nowadays as at least they're properly recorded!

At least, on the plus side, vinyl sales are up!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357646381' post='1925807'] Heh maybe BRX, maybe. But look at it this way, compact cassette was the mp3 of its day, and that was terrible, it had apalling hiss that no amount of Dolby or any other noise reduction system really dealt with without drasticaly removing the top end. [/quote] Listen to a Nakamichi Dragon! [quote] Along comes the SOny Walkman (the original was pretty huge) making music listening 'portable' - at the expense of quality - [/quote] Pro Walkman was an excellent piece of kit; record and playback were almost as good as the Nakamichi! [quote] and Philips digital tape (can I hear you say Betamax) [/quote] I heard excellent sounds from DCC once - though to be fair it was using an Ongaku On amp and Tannoy Westminster Royale speakers, around £60k worth! [quote] Its not the music thats done this, its the tech IMO.... [/quote] It's a throwaway, want it now with no effort on my part world!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1357638255' post='1925605'] Would that be the room that accidentally has no parallel walls in by any chance [/quote] Funnily enough it is! Both exterior walls slope outwards, as you can see from the TT shelf, the partition wall behind the speakers (Leema Xaviers, btw, -3dB at 28Hz) is lats and plaster, and the other "wall" is a stone inglenook fireplace. [quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1357642987' post='1925707'] I always favoured buying more music when I was younger rather than getting a decent stereo. The quest for finding great albums was greater than the desire to hear them sounding at their best. [/quote] I spent my whole 1st term at uni's grant on a stereo, then much of the 2nd and 3rd term grants on music. And so it's continued, with 3 burglaries when I lived in Harlesden contributing to the upgrade path! (thanks insurance and 2nd hand market...)

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1357636146' post='1925566'] Well, they were Sennheiser earphones. Wasn't much pleased with them. My previous Philips sports earphones beat the crap out of the sennheisers by a long way, and they were only £20. [/quote] Perhaps they didn't fit your ears as well? Or you happened to have the duffer in Sennheiser's range? Or perhaps they just showed up source limitations?

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1357635810' post='1925555'] I automatically avoid headphones that say bass on them, because i know they are trying to appeal to the ravers when they write that, not the bassists, who know the difference [b]between a bass frequency, and a bass guitar[/b]. [/quote] Between a hump in response at 70ish Hz to make it sound bassy (like Beats), and true bass reproduction and extension...