bats brew

hi bapu! the hd598's sound good to me... i have the sennheiser jubilees, sort of similar... the drums can't be as fat as i'd like because they are masking the bass. i found a happy medium between the two where the energy level is still high, but the mud is dialed out. this is just the first mix, so i'm still working on it, and i'll go back and see how much of the 'meat' of the drums i can dial back into it. i did favor the 'whack' of the drums over the boom, just because of that issue...

thanks jack! wasn't really going for 'gigantic', so i gotta sit and listen to it and figure out what did that! so i can do it again... heheh

hey thanks for the pep talk larry!! heheh, i don't know about 'market', don't know if there IS a market! but glad you dig the mix. thanks for listening

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/running-free this is a new one, that i posted in instrumental format some time back. this is the latest mix with full vocals. how does it translate for you?

thanks!

i'd bet it was fentanyl in something he didn't even know about.

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Hey thanks david!

hey thanks mark the groove is different, for sure, it seems slow, yet it drives. i didn't really envision it that way, it just turned out that way. i think there is just enough syncopation, between the solo and the rhythm, to keep kickin' it in the butt.

you have to define 'professional monitoring system' there are so many options now, i don't think anyone could point you to any one solution. it boils down to how much you have to spend,. once that is determined, the choices get easier.

thank you tom! glad to oblige

thanks nigel! guitars were really fun on this, once i had the tones i wanted dialed in, it just kinda flowed.

Yea, links to my album are on the song links

HA! lost art, i agree... for me, it's always been about 'the album', not the singles. but hey, that's me. when i sit down to program an album song sequence, it's a long process, a lot of thought goes into it. hopefully, when someone actually sits and listens to 'the album', they get a better experience for it. hopefully! thanks john

that is phuckin' ugly.

hey mark! thanks man, yea, the wah at the end, that felt pretty natural. i usually don't walk up to the wah and say 'i'm going to use you now...', i kind of mindlessly walk to the pedalboard and suddenly i'm on it, so i don't use it unless that willful mindlessness takes over. now, i never use reverb for anything, unless the production calls for it. as a rule, i don't ever think about reverb. if i can make a good mix without reverb, i will. i'm ok with using delays, more than reverb. now, if i wanted to push something BACK in a mix, i'd use verb, but not to pull it forward. that kinda goes against the verb laws. LOL but yes, as a 'producer', i listen to my mixes that are dense, and work for clarity and a 'hand in glove' approach with parts vs volume vs panning vs arrangement, with 'arrangement' being the most important element.

hey andy.. stormbringer hadn't thought about that album in quite a while.... i liked burn so much, loved the dual lead vocals...hard to believe that was way back in 1974!! According to Glenn Hughes, the slurred gibberish that is spoken by Coverdale at the beginning of the title track just prior to the first verse is the same backwards dialogue that Linda Blair's character utters in the film The Exorcist, when she is questioned by the priest. LOL Lady Double Dealer, soldier of fortune , the gypsy, all really good tunes. another amazing album by Martin Birch.

hey andy! i loved purple, growing up, it was all about trying to learn the ritchie riffs! but, after i did all that, it was really the GROOVES that kept me coming back... so yea, purple, would be an influence, rhythm guitar is where this song lives, for sure. but since there's no keys on this, and very little jazzy drums, and quick turnaround, i don't hear the purple directly... it's quite interesting, what different people hear when listening to new music, i think it's fascinating.. i appreciate your sharing that!

THANKS JACK!

thanks for those kind words larry yea, i dig wilson's stuff, the solo and the tree

Headin' EastWest https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/headin-eastwest there is a little eastern intrigue happening in this slow heavy rock tune. It is a hopeful feeling song about taking journeys, long sojourns, to places you’ve never been before, and hoping for the best outcomes. You don’t need to know exactly what direction you are going, only that you are going. Could be east, could be west.

occasionally i'll try a stereo widening plug, i have waves S1, and it works quite well... but usually , by the end of the mix session, i'll take it back off, and 9 times out of 10, i'll leave it off. it seems to mess with the proper imaging of everything else...and i've had too many folks complain about super wide imaging in headphones, and you typically wont hear it anyway in a proper playback system, unless you're standing dead center of a triangle setup.

i master using several Waves plugs; L3 H-comp G-series SSL master comp Pultec EQP-1A F6 dynamic EQ ii don't use them all at the same time, the L3 is the only one used as brickwall at end of chain for all masters. sometimes i'll use a native EQ, but typically, the mixes are ready before mastering, so very little is done for EQ and Compression at the mastering stage.

HI JEFF! thanks for the comments, tho i don't think any organ is going to make it into the mix here....