Leonard Smalls

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...

Our band just happened to have a rare get together last weekend, and wrote a song wot would be perfect for this, as it's called "Bedtime". I've laid down the bassline over a sequence and Dropboxed it to the guitarist (who lives in France), who'll add his bit, then he'll send it to drummer, singer and other guitarist (who live in Sheffield, Peak District and Manchester respectively) who'll stick their bits on and mix it. Hopefully we'll get it in in time!

[QUOTE=EliasMooseBlaster]You really should have - I'd have watched it. One of the knock-out rounds could have involved the contestant having to share a stage with Jools Holland while he insistently played his boogie-woogie piano licks under everything they did.[/QUOTE] Now we're talking... Could be like Total Wipeout, except they'd have to do a good job despite the famous musician they're forced to play with. Like the aforesaid Jools and his insistent boogie oogie woogie, or with Bootsy doing backing bass(!), Hayseed Dixie on backing vox...

Years ago I invented a battle of the bands TV show presented by Lemmy and Wilko Johnson. No TV companies took it up, the short-sighted gits! It might have helped if I'd actually sent to it someone...

Stickin' with the gogo beat: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFazNxbP4lY[/media]

Let's keep the party going! etc [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZX-VOcW2Qo[/media]

Here's one I used to play when I used to DJ in them 80s: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKpIfrO9mQ[/media]

Not sure if there's been any Hiromi or Fiusczynski yet... Here's some anyway. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsuPkyFQuQ[/media]

I've been using my Wal as live (and otherwise!) bass of choice since about 1992! Only problem is that it definitely looks "lived in" now... Still, it plays better than my others, and I'm always a bit dubious about mint examples of old stuff - reminds me of all those bike shows I used to go to where folks would trailer their pristine Harley to it.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1383261315' post='2262452'] And the bass he played was my old hand-me-down , I seem to recall it was the first bass to make an appearance in the school , mainly for assemblies , till you youngsters got ideas above your station [/quote] I remember it was an old Hohner violin bass with rubber strings... Was it ceremonially burned?

Nobody did music o level (I'm that old!) at my school, or at least there was a tiny minority. IIRC there were some recorders... Though we did have a (brief) 6th form band playing Neil Young-ish stuff, with me on keyboards and Lurksalot's brother on bass!

All musical innovation over the last hundred or so years has come from jazz. Unless it's come from somewhere else.

I've managed to slowly sneak jazz onto our garden centre sound system... Started with a bit of Jack Teagarden, Sidney Bechet etc (we have lots of older customers). Then it was a bit of relatively mainstream be bop (Miles' "Kind of Blue", with a bit of Horace Silver, Chet Baker etc). About 3 months ago I put Miles' "In a Silent Way" (thought of as highly modern back in 1969ish!), and I'm toying with putting Bitches Brew on. So far we're up to some tracks off James Carter's "Layin' in the Cut" (with Jamaaladeen on bass), and I'm not going to stop until we've got Last Exit and Derek Bailey on. Unless folks run out screaming, or worse, sales drop. But we've had lots of compliments on our musical choices - it's an ipod set to shuffle with jazz, plus Vivaldi (not boring at all bassoon and lute concertos), Bruch, Beethoven (late quartets!), Mozart (mainly piano concertos) with Scubert and Bach for good measure. And some Parliament to really put the cat among the pigeons...

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1382202718' post='2249289'] One should solo at every inappropriate moment throughout a song, the more inappropriate the better. Showboating and overplaying are becoming a lost art form up down the pubs and clubs of this (insert adjectives here) country. It's even better if you've no idea what you're doing. Soloing in a completely different key makes for great mirth. [/quote] Aye! I like to play [u]all[/u] the notes at the same time, while the rest of the band point at me and shout "bass" every 8 beats. Often, I find that being dressed as a bishop means getting away with playing all the wrong notes, all of the time.

Ask the chaps at [url="http://www.hifiwigwam.com"]www.hifiwigwam.com[/url] - there's a wealth of knowledge available there! Be careful though, as you may get the bug and end up with a £30k+ mega-system before you know it...

Coolest record? Probably my gold flexi-single of "Your Attention Please" by the Scars... Or maybe the gatefold 7" single "Iggy Pop's Jacket" by Those Naughty Lumps.

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