bats brew

This is an instrumental rock song, #2 of a 3-song trilogy, inspired by Formula One racing.

This is the British Grand Prix, Silverstone!

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/silverstone

njoy!

some nice playing there!
yea, i get the issue with piezo sounds, i don't like using them,
but in this case, the sounds kind of makes sense,
the guitars float on top of the bubbling bass lines, if not a little bit too crystalline sounding, but clear as a bell.

my guess is, if it was miced, it wouldn't work as well,
it'd be 'too full' for the busy arrangement to work.

you'd never know, i guess, without micing the guitar, re mixing it, and see what happens.

i hear the funky syncopation in the arrangement,
it aint funk, but it gets funky. LOL

 

bumpin' 1 last time

On 4/19/2023 at 12:52 PM, markno999 said:

Nice one Bat, that Tele sounds great, as does the playing of it:)

 

Regards

hey mark! thanks a lot!

yea, i really like the tele sound, it's quite different than what i'm used to,

a new instrument, which is always fun!

22 hours ago, FreeEarCandy said:

Joe Satriani comes to mind. The driving beats impart a sense of speed and certainly captures the theme.  Everything  working together like a racing engine as the song takes one around the sonic race track. Good one!

hi ear candy!

thanks for listening, with the intent of the song...

satch is always going to trigger a comparison,

just cuz he's been making fast hard rock sounding instrumentals forever, it seems...

On 4/21/2023 at 3:59 AM, daryl1968 said:

super cool Bats. Hope you are well mate.

I had the great pleasure of driving round the Monaco circuit while working for Lexus many moons ago. It was surreal

Hi daryl!

That circuit trip sounds like a super fun thing to do,

The song was fun to track with the imagery I had in mind

I've gotten to the place where I can quickly get my ideas recorded,

And be happy with it!

The gear is all dialed in,

The amps, mics, guitars, bass, I've finally gotten it all where I want it.

On 4/20/2023 at 10:45 PM, Larry T. said:

Pretty hot. Cooks from start to finish. Mix is fine. Nice transition around 2:30🎶🎶🎶🎶

Thanks Larry!

Yea, the pulling into a station to pick up more folk. Then cranking back up to speed, I tried to put the cabin noise, people talking, just the idea of it

11 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

So I'm not the only one around here who fantasizes about attending the Monaco Grand Prix. Nice.

I checked out maybe going to the Vegas GP this year, but it sold out of its (expensive!) tickets pretty quickly.

I'm working on a song called "Grand Prix Weekend" that has a little tribute to Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Girls." I have a sample of David Croft saying "Lando Norris goes 'round the outside!" (round the outside, round the outside).

yea, i don't think i'll get to make the trip to monaco any time soon!!

i'll live it, vicariously. thru netflix 'drive to survive'

LOL

2 hours ago, jack c. said:

man you are cookin on this one.jack c.nicely put together!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey thanks jack c!

this one was just fun to track

this is an instrumental rock song, the First of a 3-song trilogy, inspired by Formula One racing... imagine a racing fan boarding the bullet train in paris, to cruise all the way to Nice Ville, grabbing a quick bus to Monaco, to witness the Monaco Grand Prix! you can't really take a bullet train all the way to Monaco, but if you could!! this song.

i posted a demo of this when i first recorded it,
this is the final version, released as a single, or part of a 3-song 'trilogy'.

if you'd like a copy, you can get it here:

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-train-to-monaco

17 hours ago, Lynn Wilson said:

As always, you have demonstrated to us all that you are one of the very best musicians and composers around!  I never fail to learn something from you.  Keep up the good work, Rob!

that's real nice of you to say, lynn,

thanks!

2 hours ago, Keni said:

I’m glad fir you and I’m sure there are some others, but you must’ve noticed the huge upsurge of information regarding issues with them.

 

ACTUALLY, i just saw a lot of knee jerk reactionism.

i think waves figured out they phucked up.

they changed their ways, and so i've got no worries,

and i doubt i'll ever need to buy another plug again, i've got everything i need now.

i've been using waves plug ins for over 10 years now,

and have never had a single issue.

just sayin'.

by the way, this mix,
is just for the video...
the album mix will have all that front stuff chopped off,
and just about 10 seconds of buildup before it kicks in.


i just had to set the mood for the abduction.

the synths are the ufo coming in...
the guitar noises are background space noises,
and the scratchy samples are the aliens beaming me up.

then once i get inside, the music starts.

On 4/16/2023 at 7:52 AM, FreeEarCandy said:

Pretty cool. Outstanding sound quality. 

thanks free!

sound quality, yea, that's the goal, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the creative.

i tried to make the arrangement more 'open', so the sounds had room to breathe.

the guitar part was a lot of fun to come up with... something that snapped, and grooved, at the same time.

think the next race is next weekend?

I don't think it sounds country enough to pull off a cowboy thing

Its be easy enough to add a faux steel guitar part. Instant country! Heh

17 hours ago, Kevin Walsh said:

Great song! I can hear the Wings DNA in the chorus for sure, and the synth intro was great, loved it (but not in the biblical sense.)

hi kevin!!

yea, forming a song in the shape of a well known song, is walking a fine line, i think.

i'm glad that the 'dna' does show thru tho...

the intro, you know, i had to make it kinda sci-fi, to kick the song off in the right frame of mind...

some of that was my playing a soft synth with a controller, and some of it was samples, and a lot of it was guitar noises with echo!

LOL

thanks for listening and commenting

On 4/12/2023 at 11:29 AM, mightyleemoon said:

This is one damn fine performance. Well done. If there is a producer out there working on some kind of modern cowboy TV show, then this is easily their theme song.

hey mighty! thanks so much

it might go with a F1 tv spot.... !

alas, they'll never hear it.

i'm still refining this one,
for an upcoming album of songs patterned after classic 70's rock tunes...

i've taken the original arrangements, basic drum grooves and original tempos, of some of my favorite classic 70's rock tunes, and used that as the 'starting point' of a collection of songs i'm working on.

it's a big experiment for me.

this song, for example, is patterned after paul mccartney's WINGS song, "Junior's Farm".

more than half of a 10 song future album, will have this treatment.
these tunes will be vocal heavy, featuring harmonies and unison singing over guitar stuff.
tho, the hardest part of writing this one,
was coming up with modern sounding original rhythm guitar tracks, and not sounding like "juniors farm".
LOL

dig this smooth slow groove

there IS some low end mud somewhere, that could be cleaned up a bit if you are going to keep working it..

just depends on the playback system, i guess,  if you put a spectrum meter on your bass track and find that one freq that sticks out most, you could put an active dynamic eq on it and probably solve that issue quick.

i'd like to the vox hotter in the first verse, just to get hooked in quicker.

dig the sustained guitar/synth parts in the backgrounds.

cool tune. good work!

On 4/9/2023 at 10:38 AM, RikF said:

Hi BB, nice one, great guitaring 😉

Rik

thanks so much rik!

i had fun with this one, just cuz of the new tones available.

On 4/7/2023 at 8:35 PM, Old Joad said:

This is crazy good🤩

thanks so much old joad!

On 4/7/2023 at 8:22 AM, whoisp said:

man i will be sending you tacks over to stick guitar on lol 

heh!

well, i'll gladly pay you tuesday, for a hamburger today!

😁