Leonard Smalls

{Hollywood mode]I'd like to thank my manager, M Ableton, everybody who voted for me and my ma and pa {breaks down in tears}[/Hollywood mode] Cheers all - I've PMed a pic to Skol... It's called "The Last Days of Disco"

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1414666486' post='2591952'] [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine"]‘The Difference Engine’, from Leonard Smalls...[/url] The bass is now bopping along nicely with false modulations to trick us into thinking we're changing key. "Key..? What is this 'key' of which you speak..?" seems to be the premise behind the uncontrolable trombone which has decided to taunt us. Vive la difference. Douglas [/quote] Nice review - perhaps I should have sent a slightly larger cheque? And the bass does sneakily change key by a semi-tone, then just as sneakily goes back! The trombone, however, was played by a well-known anarchist for whom the bourgeois concept of key is anathema...

Cheers! Looks like my effort this month is slightly better received than last month's appalling racket. This one's just a racket...

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1414522184' post='2590239'] Lovely that you're doing these reviews, Dad [/quote] Aye! And presumably my cheque arrived?

Tis all pretty darned good so far!

Eek!

I could do with a van like that!

Nice!

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MXlAAsRVY[/MEDIA]

"Maggie" by the Exploited!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1412704283' post='2571183'] as for latin I have no recall whatsover [/quote] If you look up the active indicative conjugation for the verb [i]ducere[/i] you'll see why I remembered it, and why I'm not going to finish it in a post! Alternatively, ask your brother - I'll bet he remembers it to... However, I might add that mentally I never got past 15.

I remember Jonah handing in dirty mags instead of homework to her... Duco, ducis, ducit stayed in my memory as well!

I wouldn't dream of slipping in any innuendo. Being brought up as a Catholic meant that large parts of my youth were spent at Catechismm under a priest. We were taught to be upstanding and not smutty!

Cheers! But what's IBTL?

I got inspired (arguably!) and with some crazy 'boning by a local jazzist, produced this: [url="https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine"]https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine[/url] For a change I used both Wal and Sandberg basses with plenty of effects to disguise them!

[url=http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Adam-F5-Active-Studio-Monitors-Pair/N48?origin=product-ads&gclid=CNDzpIPnlcECFabMtAod6QgAng]Adam[/url] make some of the best studio monitors. At this price you'll never get earth-shaking bass but those will give you a good idea of what's there! And don't get anything like Yammy NS10s. They were designed as a worse-case speaker - if you can get it to sound good on those they'll sound good on anything. They over-emphasise the treble so they're screechy like a banshee - they're almost always used in conjunction with a good main monitor!

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!