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Kit · Apr 20, 06:50 AM

Picked up this piece a few days ago, mostly in anticipation of live work I’ve got to do both in NYC and in Berlin. It’s got the bottom end for a bass guitar and the kicks and djembes etc in my handsonic, but given that Phil Jones brought a hifi background to instrument amplifier manufacture, it also faithfully reproduces (albeit in mono) the mid to high range percussion sounds, hard and clear. An added bonus for recording is that take a line direct into the mixer, and I’ve got a creamy smooth fat bass sound that doesn’t usually need further tweaks.

I’ve also been walking round with one of these for a couple of weeks, and now have all of my major recordings plus the film loaded — where of course it looks particularly sharp. Impressive, and definitely beats walking round with a pile of vinyl under my arm, let alone a box of K7s.

To finish, here’s a little thrust from clever clogs Middle European snob Kundera’s The Art Of The Novel that does bear thinking about:

A received idea: that the genius of rhythm is expressed through noisy emphatic regularity. False: the tedious rhythmic primitivism of rock: the heart’s beat is amplified so that man can never forget his march towards death.

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