bats brew

TNX for the interest, eric. not sure when the album will be complete, i have two other projects going in parallel, so the album work just gets done in between breaks of the other projects. i have a target of 9 songs, i have 4 complete, and 2 in the works.

hey hockeyjx! thanks for listening and commenting yea, bass was too low, i'm working on that one. i have two tracks of bass, summed to mono, and one is clean and midrangy, the other is low... i've placed a tape emulator across the midrangy bass track, which has compressed it slightly, and overdriven it slightly, and when mixed with the other track, has fattened the bass up nicely and made it a bit more aggressive. that should 'beef' it up a bit like your suggesting. i don't want to add any more instrumentation, because i feel it's already busy enough, and i'm looking for skinnier mixes for this particular set of songs to go on a new album. but, if i didn't pan the rythm guitars hard left right, and brought them inwards a smidge, that changes the entire 'thickness' of the track, without quite as much separation... i'm on the fence about that move, because it's so clear right now... but THAT might make the mix seem more thick, without adding anything. food for thought, thanks!

Thanks Tom!

wow, gary thain name drop! don't hear that one very often, and i'm a fan! LOL yea, i wanted the bass to be skinnier on this one, because it's so fat on the other songs from this set... but i did play around with the bass tones some, since i posted this, i have two parallel bass tracks, summed together, and on ONE of them, i put a waves J37 tape saturation effect, and this both fattened and slightly distorted the tone a bit, and brought that track up a bit, which fills out the bass more. definitely NOT a Thain heavy bass track, but more in that direction. thanks for the ideas!

hey nigel! yea, the arrangement things will probably fly right past most everyone, but it will scratch an itch for me.

hey dream!! thanks for the listen. i may work on the drums a bit more, and tweak the arrangement a bit.

ha! tom, this might be the only one you get to hear, til i put it on little shiny disc thingys! but thanks for listening all the same, i typically make changes, add stuff, take stuff away, to my 'final' mixes that i put out for consideration, then they are part of the 'album' which i'll release digitally, because NO ONE buys cd's anymore!! ugh

hey joad! yea, rock and roll! kinda what this is, pretty basic tune, the slide at the end was fun to play, but i think i captured all the harsh of the slide, and none of the richness and prime tone... but it's funny, that's the ONLY thing i heard on the outro of the song, like maybe, i should have played slide thru the whole thing! LOL

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/jezebel first pass on this one, i'll continue working on the mix and some arrangement thingys, til i get to the time to combine this one with the others i have finished, for album #6.

you have gain staging issues.

thanks for that mark! i appreciate it. and hope you can rock out a bit to this one...

oh yea!! still kickin, anyways!

thanks mark! that was the first real workout i had on the new strat build

hi nigel! glad you liked the jamming on this one, actually, everthing was worked out and arranged EXCEPT the big solo at the end...

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/first-tracks a tune about skiing deep powder 1st song i tracked with my (at the time) new USACG strat build; so, the title is a double ent...

baby audio taip. AI.

i'd say, if anyone is needing a compressor, that g series SSL is a really nice plug.

i have almost every compressor they make, except the strange one... but i'd say, my go to, are just a handful: cla2a, cl1176, ssl comp, and occasionally the good ole renaissance comp. i find the dynamic EQ F6 very helpful. sometimes vitamin.

i've got all the compressors i'll ever need, and some extras to boot!

...

think he meant "you're to blame" but not you. heheh

...

hey ron! yea, the vocals, on this one, they were pretty straight up and simple, and least simpler than most all of my previous stuff. this song was my intentional target of a simpler song format, most of my stuff is a bit more progressive leaning. travel song, which is actually called "Following Light" from my first album, is actually a waltz! but a kind of raw rock waltz. i have an all instrumental album i just did back during the lockdown, called "Elemental", no vocals...you can check that one here: https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/

you know, i have the BOSS DD-200 delay pedal, and it has a really good version of the space echo in it, i use it quite often for guitar. i guess, if i had to just get ONE (the wallet decides) it'd probably be the OB 8. tho, i'm intrigued by the dream synth, i had an original Prophet V back in the day...

thanks for the heads up wookiee... didn't know about cherry audio, they have SEVERAL ancient synth models i'm interested in, besides the quadra... they have the dream synth (Ensoniq ESQ-1 and prophet 5 hybrid), jupiter 4, Memorymoog. Korg's renowned MS-20, Oberheim Eight (yes!) even the ARP 2600! so, wow, i'd like all of those!! heheh