bats brew

howdy ho, ron pko! thanks for listening! glad you dig it... the synths i used, i think post date the 70's, but i get the drift... and some of the samples i used (like the beeping at the end, that's a recording of the Sputnik satellite!) go back to the 50's! heheh

why thanks there, wookiee! glad you heard this one... i had fun with the synths, got to dial in some hopefully 'new' polyphonic analog-modeled synth stuff, i really need to find a good prophet 5 vst for a good price (free)! LOL that, and maybe a good Arp Quadra...

the focals are excellent! and if you're going that route, consider adding the focal sub one, reviewed last month in Tape OP https://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/148/sub-one-active-subwoofer/

IT'S A NEW WEEK~ plenty of time for farming

bumpin for the new weekend!

so nice of you to listen and comment, jw thanks it was a pretty cool arrangement to work with, getting things to build exactly the way i wanted it to, took some serious "methodology" this one, i actually worked out the arrangement on paper, before i even started writing the music! i think i'll continue on that path, i've done 5 albums now, working out stuff 'on the fly', so this is a new approach for me.

bumpin for juneteenth day! there is a parallel here...

Bumpin for the weekend

heh! i don't about that, but sometimes happy accidents happen, that just work out! i like that aspect of recording, i just try whatever, if it works, great, if not, i just record over it. i've learned to NOT be precious about recording stuff. i used to think that the 1st takes were always best, but honestly, i think you can always improve on any take. but there is something about spontaneity

hey tom! glad you caught this one, thanks for checking it out

thanks so much nigel the guitars were fun, because i was trying out a new technique that i really don't normally use, to play the rhythms.. and it forced me to really really focus on the timing of the rhythm parts, because i wanted them to boogie... slightly back beat, if you know what i mean... and you have to play those parts consistently, or it just doesn't work rhythm wise. once i got it, it was fun to push and pull the groove based on simply plucking the strings with my fingers, instead of using a pick. i'll keep refining that style/method, it's fun to do. gotta have the gain structure right on the amp, tho....

thanks kevin! the intro was fun.... i didn't want it too long, but it had to be long enough to elicit the right vibe before diving into the abduction~~~!! LOL the wah, i wasn't planning on doing a wah part, but as i hit 'record' and walked to the pedalboard, i blindly stepped on the budda wah, and just starting going. that was an off the cuff, in the moment solo, i was planning to over write, but kept it.

for folks that don't dig the videos... https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/space-farmer

hey jack! yea, some of those sounds were cool nasa sounds, but most were sounds i created using soft synths and a lot of tweaking. kinda gives it the old sci-fi vibe!

hey, i'm all open for offers!! heheh

hey kev! yea, that opening was fun. spent a bunch of time just demoing sounds to use... of course, there are samples mixed in as well, some sounds i got from NASA! thanks

removed as punishment

still selling. there's a lesson in there somewhere! 😁

i think the facts speak for themselves.

Thanks t

thanks so much jim! that whole guitar sound thing, was real fun to craft.

howdy ho noynekker! anthemic, yes, that was always the goal, to make the arrangment sort of soar... working with (what was new at the time) the strymon modeler, just opened up so many new tones to me, that it was easy to just take off with it... i also had just added a new digital delay, the Boss DD-200, and the combination of those two things there, are all you hear, really. everything printed in real time. made it easy to mix. i pushed the electrics with a pedalboard, but the tones are basically all direct. no amps used on the album.

hi andy! yep, the guitars all done using a Strymon Iridium direct... and the Taylor 414.

hi john b, thank you for listening and commenting

thanks bapu, glad you dig this one.