Leonard Smalls

I once shared a dodgy cigarette with a well known Blockheads bass player...

The boy's not wrong!

I started off by playing along to Bootsy's Rubber Band on an acoustic guitar with the top 2 strings missing...

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1503059539' post='3355392'] have a dbx160a in my rig case is permanently on FOH guys love it as it stops unwanted 'surprises' [/quote] Me too... I currently use one channel pre- and the other post-effects in a sort of New York Glue sort of way (ie pre is very light, post is much heavier, and I blend them).

[attachment=250023:16cslodge26-7-17.jpg] Rehearsing with the 16 Chokestart boys. Note guitarist's music stand... (Not sure why every time I tried to post it came up with 405 error, meaning I posted it 4 times!)

Eventually bought the V4 with up to 4 separate loops, plus high pass filters on 2 channels, phase reverse on all and bass/treble on channel A (which I would use as clean for blending in). Excellent piece of kit - takes a bit of fiddling to set up, but it' much quieter than using the effects without it, and I have the choice of putting loops in series, or having them in parallel. Which means I can have the clean Wal, bass whammy with low octave chord, Darkglass tube distortion (sounds better phase reversed) and 3 leaf envelope filter all on parallel loops - this sounds like the bass has been multi-tracked with different effects on each track, then blended to give a huge sound. Costs 4-5 times more than a 2nd hand Boss LS2, but it does so much more! Love it... And http://www.joespedals.com/ were very helpful indeed.

And more excellent JamInTheVan - for those that haven't seen it - Turkuaz: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MXlAAsRVY[/MEDIA] With a young Frankie Boyle on trumpet and keys...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1499792381' post='3333653'] We'll have to hope for another hour or so of similar weather, so that you can sort out the mix, and get it right. ... [/quote] Due to rain today and a few moments spare I had a brief fiddle.... https://soundcloud.com/leonard-smalls/the-big-bossa

Anyone used one of these? I like the look of this pedal as it's got 3 separate loops that can be blended, or 2 with a clean signal with bass/treble adjustment, and phase switching on loops b and c. Is it worth almost double the price of a boss ls2 for the extra functionality, or is it worthwhile going for the Xotic stereo blender for £150 more?

Due to weather, I thought I'd see what I could do in 2 1/2 hours... The answer is this little bit of weirdness, especially for our ex-pat members with a love of the accordion! And it's been fiddled with some more now, link is in the future! Though I suspect that to our Gallic friends would think it sounds like une vache Espagnole...

Excellent riff Once it gets going... [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kBGeRsumWg[/MEDIA]

I suspect I won't have time yet again to produce even an irrelevant ditty (sorry Douglas!). Spending all my spare muso time rehearsing with new funk rock band; they actually want to be tight, which is a new one on me! Still, found time to do a bit last week with other band - the Badass Weeds - here's a rough-ish mix especially for the delectation and delight of Douglas, but it's too long for compo entry... Still, enjoy, or not! https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/hammer-riff

[quote name='Hellzero' timestamp='1498926495' post='3328043'] Hi-fi forum talk again. My data is a real verified fact. Vinyl can't go any higher than 15 KHz, period. Never heard of nor read on nor adjusted any A80 going that high ! And I love these machines, having owned, adjusted and used a few. [/quote] While not many vinyls will have any information at those frequencies is another matter entirely, it is theoretically possible - and here's some analysis that shows it! http://www.channld.com/vinylanalysis1.html As the highest frequency possible is entirely down to the cutting head, the grain size of the vinyl,the quality of the head amps, the thickness of the vinyl, what's recorded on the master tape ( I know in the BBC we often limited audio to 15kHz because it was the highest likely transmitted frequency), noise present in the system; and its reproduction is dependent on stylus size and shape, quality of all the mechanical parts of the cartridge,how clean the connection to arm wires/cable to phono stage, how well coupled the cart is to headshell, tracking accuracy of both cart and arm, design of arm, isolation of turntable platter from vibration, speed stability, quality of RIAA decoding, actual frequency limits and quality of pre/power amps and whether the speakers can reproduce it! But if they're getting it off a relatively humble Tecnodec with RB250 and Kontrapunkt B, you'll possibly get more from better set-ups! Or perhaps not...

[quote name='Hellzero' timestamp='1498838493' post='3327496'] The bandwidth goes from 20 Hz to 15 KHz, when the cd goes from 0 Hz to 20kHz. Stop asking yourself which one is better and simply listen to the music, don't listen to your system... And no human can hear below 20 Hz or above 20 KHz, that's a fact, so the good old 16 bits 44,1 KHz cd is the perfect solution for music or sound. The only improvement is the suppression of the mechanical movement and THAT is also done. [/quote] FM radio had a max frequency of 15kHz... Vinyl can go beyond 50kHz - in fact high quality cutting lathes have a 6dB/octave filter set at that! Whether that's of any use is a different matter; though it's quite possible that interactions between these high and the audible frequencies give more of an impression of space and life to a recording. Of course the original master recording has to be made on a suitable machine - frinstance a Studer A80 with 0.25mm head gap running at 30"/sec could record 100kHz - this was one of the reasons why bias frequency was set at 400+kHz!

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1498268173' post='3323574'] So atmospheric - if you feel nothing listening to this then there's something wrong with you! [/quote] I felt a growing sense of annoyance, tinged with boredom and a feeling of "when will it end"? Saying that, I watched them last night on't telly, and was impressed for the 1st couple of songs, then got annoyed and a bit bored. Still, each to their own! It's Thom Yorke that annoys me most - he seems deeply po-faced and convinced of his own wonderfulness; as I've never met him I can't say if that's actually true but I couldn't imagine him "singing" the Marseillaise out of his bottom

Excellent! There's some cracking Japanese bands. This lot were brilliant live, and their name comes from a love of Billy Childish and the Damned's "Machine Gun Etiquette"! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnr7QPHDDU[/MEDIA]

I like 'em! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzobTCIRDw[/MEDIA]

I used superglue on the affected tips for years - careful now! But the more you play, the tougher they'll get!

Trujillo and the Suicidals! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob3buKk6ALc[/MEDIA]

Easy, but excellent! [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--erJSsmraY[/MEDIA]

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1497286119' post='3317048'] Anyone remember Oysterhead? Maybe we shouldn't yet. [/quote] I quite like them... [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDkyF9HuRhM[/MEDIA]

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1497105585' post='3315897'] That bass line was written by Martin Lavender [/quote] I preferred him in Dad's Army...

Don't think the Evox 12 would have the clout for a 700 capacity hall The nearest column jobby that I think would fit the bill is this one: [url="https://www.djkit.com/fbt-audio/fbt-vertus-cla-406a-118sa-system.html?gclid=COenn9Lgq9QCFQK37QodymMAtA"]https://www.djkit.com/fbt-audio/fbt-vertus-cla-406a-118sa-system.html?gclid=COenn9Lgq9QCFQK37QodymMAtA[/url] This would produce a max SPL of 139dB@1m, so that's 133dB at 2m, 127 at 4m, 121 at 8, 115 at 16m, assuming a spherical dispersion - so being a pseudo-line array it'd produce a little bit more than that. But it's >£5.5k!

I listened to an HK Elements system which was pretty good soundwise - ran rings round the Alto system next to it but was also double the price - £5k just for the PA, plus mixer/mics/stands etc. And it wouldn't be able to compete on SPL with the JBL system - at full chat that would produce around 115 dB at the back of the hall!