Leonard Smalls

Bassline from the first 50 seconds of my entry into this month's compo-compo: http://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/hes-a-noodle-doodle-man

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1466355653' post='3075217'] I've kept mine mercifully short'n'sweet! Warning, contains purely-executed scat content and other things that some of a sensitive nature might find deeply offensive. [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/harry-monk-and-his-steampunk-funk"]http://soundcloud.co...-steampunk-funk[/url] Now remixed.... [/quote] I've fiddled with mine too!

I've kept mine mercifully short'n'sweet! Warning, contains purely-executed scat content and other things that some of a sensitive nature might find deeply offensive. http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/harry-monk-and-his-steampunk-funk Now remixed....

I've made a start... And where it goes depends entirely on whether I add piano or synth. If it's synth, it's likely to be a large funky thing like Madre with chugging guitars. If it's piano, it'll be a jazzy little number with drum solo and (eek!) some scat. Daddy or chips?

Funnily enough, I always preferred Buddy Miles to Buddy Rich.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1465280610' post='3066667'] OK guys had a good listen through these on the bus on the way in this morning and have voted My remaining vote was for Leonard Smalls, whom I could listen to all day. I did say this last month but it's worth mentioning again, there is something wonderfully natural about your playing. it really is a case of you expressing your music through the instrument, it sounds great Another great bunch where to be honest It was difficult to whittle it down to just the three... but those are the rules and these were my favorites Long live the noodle bar! [/quote] Ta very much! But I bet by the 3rd hour of widdleywiddleywoo you'd be trying to saw your own ears off using one of my many discarded and snapped G strings as a cheese-wire...

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1465219483' post='3066216'] Isn't the broadcast mix done outside the venue in a trailer and completely different from the PA and monitor mix? I agree it doesn't tell us much but if you start to mix in bass and drums you elevate the level of the mix quite a bit and they mention not wanting an overly compressed sound for TV in the article. Which is different to what they do for radio and CD. [/quote] Depends entirely where it's recorded - in the olden days at TV Centre it would have been mixed in-room for the audience, and in a separate sound control room for transmission. We (i.e. post production Sound) always had a rivalry with studio sound; our mission was to make it sound as good as possible, their's seemed to be to make it sound as much like the original as possible, no matter how poor the original was. It's probably not true anymore - but bad mixes appear everywhere; on tv, live, and (eek!) on records! Either way you can't expect full range sound to appear at all impressive on a highly bandwidth limited tv speaker...

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1465215892' post='3066154'] I think the problem with listening to music on the TV is it is always going to be a compromise. [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/c99c3fd4-708b-3632-8c33-13abe97ec557"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...33-13abe97ec557[/url] [/quote] That doesn't really tell us anything about transmission frequency balance, or more importantly, how something is mixed for transmission whether it's music or drama or docs... Bear in mind that the mixing for transmission, as opposed to the sound in the studio, is done in a (mostly!) soundproofed room with (relatively!) full-range monitors. So frequency extremes aren't going to feature very much on a 2" speaker on your telly - unless the mix has been compressed in a frequency-dependent way. And the audio in the mixing room will be full-range and not (digitally) - compressed. So it may sound perfect to them - after all they want max quality - but after being MPEG encoded then compressed to between 128 and 320kbps (depending on what else is going on in the transmission multiplex), who knows what the balance is going to be like!

For me it's: Bootsy Norman Watt-Roy Jamaaladeen Tacuma Larry Graham Bill Laswell/Les Claypool (can't decide!) And it's nice to see Andy Warren get a mention - it was his early Monochrome Set stuff (and of course Norman!) who got me into bass...

Lawks! Not even all the entrants have voted yet...

And El Krapitan appears to be very painful for some recording studios, especially if they're working with Reaper...

They should all give up as they're obviously not good enough to make a living as proper musicians... I'd have voted for the top 2 as well...

I like to play live, but then I also like to play with myself at home - either just noodles or recording new stuff (often for the Basschat CompoCompo!). Luckily I rarely have any bass lines to learn as we don't usually do any covers and I make up basslines to suit (or not!). I've found that recording does more for my playing as I can pick over what I've done, like in one of those German toilets.

I reckon it'd be better with an anthemic synth, glitch percussion and slap bass solo right in the middle...

Excellently done! And please make sure that the next picture is funky!!!

Hurrah! Another 6 votes and I'll be home and dry...

Eek! My one and only vote has been stolen! It's a fix I tell ya!

There's no-one as funky as Bootsy... And I know cos I was there when he was born! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sh9cezHNec[/MEDIA]

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