bats brew

"The Wild Animals" https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/the-wild-animals this song became the title track, based on the strength of it as an opening number. the sequencing of the album became important after my decision to use this one as an opener, because of how intense this one is, and the 2nd song (michael's house) had to equal it in temperment. This song was probably the 5th or 6th song in order of writing... i wrote the drum track first, and immediately locked onto the main rhythm riff... it was an exercise in stripping down a more progressive riff, to it's most basic elements. again, this was an influence of direction directly from Queens of the Stone Age, which i had been listening to quite a lot at the time... i like the way they write things almost as if they are little symphonies, lots of parts, but never more than a couple at a time, like directing a choir pit full of punk rockers that have taste and timing. LOL the message in this one is simple: it's my public service announcement about the opoid crisis. the "wild animals" can be whatever you think they should be. The wild animals Just because they smile, and grease back their hair, Doesn’t mean there’s any kind of heart in there They’ll give you pellets of poison to put in your tea, They say there’s nothing phucking wrong with me Please, do not feed the wild animals Better left alone, the wild animals It’s a kick back, kick you, nothing you can really do, If you give em a chance, they’ll chase you into the Afterlife too! “lets book a trip to the riviera, sarah, bring the doctor along” “nobody will miss us back home”, When the sh!t goes wrong Please, do not feed the wild animals Better left alone, the wild animals It’s just the modern chemistry, the artistry of grabbing by the short hairs, They stay awake at night, and they count their money til the Morning light It’s a cautionary tale… that we all can relate It’s a taste of a real time devils delight At the cocktail party, or the local church family affair The poison pellets are playing truth or dare. Please, do not feed the wild animals Better left alone, the wild animals

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thanks jack! plugins, hm, only channel eq and some waves plugs for delay. guitars had delay/verbs on them from the POD XT i used to do the parts with. bass was straight in. the drum track was just a little drum machine set for some cheesy straight groove...i think it was a ZOOM 123. voice is a AT4033 into a A Designs Audio MP-1 preamp, into a DBX MC-6 compressor, and into the soundcard. Mastered elsewhere...

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/stay an introspective funk boogie written after my mum passed. recorded using sonar 6 pro

i believe it is. use the RTA version.

the other great thing about F6, is the side chaining.

on a similar note:

ooh, i like that one even better!

yes, the F6 is a well built, more 'modern' plug by waves.... it's able to add color, OR be transparent. i'll use it as the front end on mastering sometimes, tho i try to NOT need eq on the mastering end of things. it has nice hpf and lfp abilities, but the dynamic eq is the dealio.

Waves F6 plug does it for me.

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actually, since i posted this, i began work on a brand new drum kit, based on a gretsch kit as the body of it... the new kick has a completely different eq profile, so i've redone the low end already, maybe it's corrected this issue with thump of kick, i haven't finalized the mix on that yet.

well, i have already done complimentary eq between kick and bass; kick is mostly 120hz down, and a big dip from 200 to 400, and then boosted at 2khz for beater attack; bass has dip from 120 up to 250, and is flat from there up. the dip at 450 was just mud collected from 18 drum mics and 16 music/vocal mics. i'd suggest checking it with the sub on.

hi john! thank you for listening, and commenting... on my previous answer above, you can see the actual frequency response of this mix, obviously i favor deeper lows than you guys, but i think there is plenty of low end here... maybe it's not really lows you are missing, but some 2nd or 3rd harmonic content you are used to hearing? and aren't Yamaha NMS10's a motorcycle?! 😁 i know the old yamaha ns10's were notoriously bass lite...

thanks for listening ksband! midrange.... above, is the frequency chart for this mix. you'll see, that at about 275hz, the peaks gently draw downward as the frequency goes up... there is a big dip at 460hz to tame some masking and buildup... but that the actual midrange (500 Hz to 2 kHz) is lower than the low end, as it should be for this kind of mix. now, if the mix i have is wrong, in terms of riding the bass guitar part, i get that... i'm still tweaking that part of the mix. but the graph does not show a buildup of midrange frequencies... i'd suggest that it might be your monitoring system or listening space. i prolly got the mix wrong! heheh, i don't doubt it... i'll focus on that bass mix. thanks!

howdy how mark! glad you dig the vox. i turned down the drums on purpose, at the end section, to match the intensity of the music. plus, to give the ears a break.... the song builds to a point where the line 'lovers we portray' happens, and then it needs to breath a bit. with the drums slamming away during the breakdown part, they sound out of place to me. maybe, i should turn the music down around the drums even further? the instrumental version, would have just been a 'pre' version of the song with vocals. i often write the music first, and i'm always thinking in terms of melodies, so almost any of my songs could be turned into intrumentals, or vice versa. i don't have the instrumental version up anywhere anymore. i rarely leave stuff posted, unless it is for sale.

hey thanks andy! i had some earphones like those, they are a comfy listen.

hey kevin! yea, that solo was fun, it was def not charted out! right off the cuff, as they mostly all should be. glad blackmore didn't wing the 'highway star' solo tho!! heheh thank you for listening

hi nigel! thanks for listening. you know, the drums, in solo, just sound huge to me... there is more room info there i could bring in, to create the 'fatter' effect........ i'm on the fence about how dry to mix drums these days, i like a bit of natural ambience, and god knows, the superior drummer program offers tons of that!! but i have kits created in vocal booths, big wooden rooms, marble rooms, live rooms... lots of rooms available. and yet, some of my favorite pro release drums mixes are bone dry. go figure!

i have 3 LDC's, but my favorite is the Shure KSM 44. great on any source. a shoutout for my cheapest one as well, a ADK Hamburg.