bats brew

On 4/1/2024 at 12:34 PM, jack c. said:

great.jack c

Thanks Jack!

covering ozzy, 

is one thing.

covering DIO, is a step up! 

great effort here, you can hear the sabbath fandom coming thru loud and clear.

1 hour ago, Sal Sorice said:

Great tune - and cool guitar solo. My only comment would be that the drums are a bit "lost" - they don't seem present enough - but it could be the fault of my speakers.

i tend to agree on this, the drums could come up a bit and still sit well in the mix.

i like the dark tone, but if you decided to eq them a bit brighter, maybe the level is fine.

as it is eq'd, i'd bring them up.

that's all i'd change. it's all good.

excellent tune!

i like the voice, reminds me a bit of ty tabor from kings x

nice dry capture. sounds like it was recorded in a closed coat closet. how did you mic this vocal track?

i like the darker tone of the drums for this mix...

the bass is still the loudest element, but i kinda like it that way. it's carrying the rhythm.

great guitar tones, all around a great effort. good tune.

REMINDS ME of floyd just a bit..

and some of the changes sound like something that would fit right into a sci fi sound track.

wonderful tones.

nice groove!

love that swampy vibe effect on the guitar.

well done!

used my Catalpa tele build with the fralins, for all the rhythms on this one...

used my USACG strat build with lawrence pickups for all the solo work.  

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-to-shine

from the new bats brew album

17 hours ago, garybrun said:

No... its was good.
I meant it as a compliment  🙂

Thanks gary!

On 3/26/2024 at 3:29 PM, garybrun said:

I can hear how your voice has matured over the years.

ha! you mean, getting older...

yea, i don't have the range i used to have on the tenor end, that's for sure.

i guess as i continue to downtune guitars, my voice will follow! LOL,

thanks for listening, glad you like this stuff.

On 3/27/2024 at 8:48 AM, DeeringAmps said:

Much enjoyed here Bats!

t

THANKS TOM!

On 3/26/2024 at 9:30 AM, jack c. said:

sounds real pro.jack c

well thanks jack!

i had to work hard to get the backing tracks to 'hit' a little...

i think i need a grunge pedal!

that totally does the  trick, eh?

it's not exactly fuzz, but it is...

like if you dialed a fuzz in with a parametric EQ

nice groove there joad!

just throw a vocal on top, and you've got a finished 70's style arrangement with the grunge tones!

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/speak-to-me

Speak to Me: this is a remake of a demo i did back in 1999 with a buddy of mine, i met on the roland VS Planet website, last seen in florida. 
 i took him my original demo, and said 'do whatever, 'carte blanc', the entire backing track, sans guitars and vocals, he created on top of my demo, using Nuendo and a host of samplers and virtual instruments, and it rocked! he sent me a MP3 of what he had, and that was all i ever got!
still liking the tracks, i just decided to aggressively process the 256 kbps mp3 file i had, and that's what i used for the backing tracks. 
i converted it to 24 bit (with TONS of audio losses) and tweaked it quite a bit!
it gives it an almost 'lo-fi' feel, that actually works.

the shoegazer track of the album. njoy!

a lot of folks want me to put this to a full band treatment,
but that's not how it was written,
not envisioned that way, so doing it any other way,
is just not being straight up about the intention.

would it work with full band..? of course.

does it work as it is...?
of course! it was designed to. that's what makes it unique.
follow your inner voice on stuff like that.

the guitar i used has quite a story:

The Williams Special is a Les Paul-Strat-Mustang-Explorer hybrid, with hollow body cavities, Mustang scale length, built like a paul with mahagony and maple top, a short tenon neck glued in, with an ebony fingerboard, mother of pearl diamond inlays, with vintage-dimension strat body, and explorer headstock.

a custom build (obviously!) i think it's pretty unique...

started out with a EMG SA assembly, that was changed to a pair of Bill Lawrence Wilde L-280's in neck and middle, with a Duncan Lil 59'r in the bridge.

folks sometimes think that the bridge pickup is moved out, but it's really the neck and middle that are moved towards the bridge, because of the scale length and the 24 frets...
it's kinda like brian may's red special that way.....
 

On 3/21/2024 at 5:59 PM, mark skinner said:

Very Nice ! Love the sparsness in this one.  Great to take advantage of Real music produced by natural events. 

I think I would have tried to repitch the wind chimes though ..  

You've got the "Yes" vibe going in this one. It always brings me back to a time when everything was new and fulfilling. You Really got me with this one.     

 I'm planning forward to recording the cicada insect emergence coming up soon. Don't have a clue what to do with it , but I'll have it.

 I Loved the song and production ..              mark

 

Thanks again Mark

I have messed with repitching stuff, 

Its fairly easy with studio one.

But the sound of the real thing is one I'm so accustomed to, I couldn't bear to hear it altered.

Cicadas!

Yep, I grew up in the southeast, yes, I know that sound well.

Thats a cool idea to capture it.

Thanks mark...

More later

2 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

Always a fan here. As usual, well written, played, and produced.

👍's 👏

t

a question on the white strat; how is balance on the E,B,G strings with the "blades"?

hey T!

glad you heard this one, this one kinda balances out the 'next' one that i have posted already...the twilight rain song.

so, hard rock, then introspective acoustic/electric....non drums. i don't know what you call that!! LOL

ah, the white strat.

that is a USACG build, alder body, maple neck with pau ferro fingerboard.

the electronics are bill lawrence WILDE L500's in the bridge, L280's in the middle and neck positions.

the blades on the 500L are awesome.

the most balanced pickup i've ever played thru, but the choice of putting that pickup in this guitar, makes it a pretty hot and responsive pickup.

https://www.wildepickups.com/products/l500

if you think about it, pickups that have pole pieces, have a limited 'window' of sampling the vibration of the strings..

vs, a blade, it's continuous. if you do a lot of bends (like me) the blade tracks continuously, and you never really bend out of a 'zone' of catching the steel string output. i'm sure folks would say that the window of capture over a pole is big enough that bending just takes you from one pole to another, and the thinness of the blade provides a very focused capture.

it's as if it has clarity and fatness at the same time.

alnico 5 magnets.

but i can hear a difference.

check out this late night reading on the '500L':

https://darthphineas.com/2023/01/wilde-pickups-l500/

On 3/21/2024 at 1:08 PM, freddy j said:

Great rocker, mix, and excellent performance.  I echo Lynn's comments above!

howdy ho freddy j!

thank you for listening and commenting. i'm real glad you guys are digging this stuff!

On 3/17/2024 at 11:24 AM, Lynn Wilson said:

What talent!!

thanks so much lynn!

On 3/20/2024 at 7:43 AM, jack c. said:

love those  chords and voice and song!jack c

thanks jack! i think i was influenced by listening to some Eric Johnson at the time i wrote this...

i used a custom short scale electric i had made back in 1986, to do all the guitar parts on this one.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/twilight-rain

*Twilight Rain -
this is purely autobiographical. 
i did a demo of this several years ago, and it was a full band arrangement.
i did this version as part of a 'song-fact finding mission', 
and ended up liking it better.
features real thunder and rain, recorded from the downstairs entrance door into our backyard in utah, 
and also features our little windchime on the back porch.

from the latest batsbrew album.

On 3/14/2024 at 9:47 AM, cakeboy said:

Tasty rock hard rock riffs and nice wah solo. And also good singing and melodies

Howdy ho cakeboy!

Thank you for listening

On 3/14/2024 at 8:06 AM, jack c. said:

man do ya know how to rock it to the max!jack c

thanks for that jack!

appreciate it

On 3/13/2024 at 4:57 PM, Paul Bush said:

 

Great bit of rock .. and nothing is straight forward as far as your super music is concerned great guitar tones

Thank you Paul!

Fun making these guitar tones. Trying out new settings with a Marshall and Tele  kind of rhythm tone. Crunchy, but fat at the same time.