bats brew

Thanks folks, for listening and supporting, I need it! To make more...

Thanks supa.. But no more remixes of this Stuck a fork in It!

hi jack! thanks for listening to this one, yea, the textures of sound in this song, were a design criteria from the beginning... how do you capture the grime, dust, blood, tears, of a long ago war, with some electric gutiars?! heheh this one is my personal favorite of the songs on the album, it really nailed the vibe i was after.

hey david! glad you feel that way (big win)... maybe, but it's been largely ignored. so possibly some good luck is in order!! heheh

HI WOOKIEE! yep, this one was designed to have that bittersweet melody that mirrored the last 'official' battle.. i'm sure there were many more, skirmishes here and there, and yea, it was sad that it had to come to that, but it had to. i replaced the drums on this one, since i finished the album.. in fact, i'm so enamored with the new kit i got, i'm replacing ALL the kits in all the songs, slightly remixing them all to suit the new kit and room sounds, and will post all the updated files on BANDCAMP. i also plan on putting a link together of all the new remixes, and send that link to anyone that bought the album so they can have the updated mixes. wish there was an easier way, but this is where i am right now. at least i can do that. i would think folks would want the high def files, but i guess many either want mp3's, or redbook ready 16 bit files that can be burned directly to cd. i can output any file, i just don't know quite what my targets should be. either way, thanks so much for listening

thanks so much, kurt... glad you are diggin' the album, it was a special one for me.

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/battle-of-palmito-ranch Battle of Palmito Ranch: also known as the battle of palmito hill, it was the final battle of the American civil war. It is a bittersweet story, since the confederate forces had already surrendered the war, but no one at Palmito Ranch knew that. An unnecessary battle, this song memorializes the end of an ugly chapter of American history. from the new Bats Brew album "Elemental", you can get it here: batsbrew.bandcamp.com/

THANKS~!

alright John! thanks for rocking out... and yea, guitars CAN sing! heheh

DP eh?! i need more B3. LOL thanks wookiee

hi andrew! glad you dig this one... you know, i love guthrie, but i suppose i've been playing guitar longer than guthrie has been alive?! yep. i've been doing this a long time...

thank you jack! glad you dig it. this was all done in the box, and going direct with the guitars and bass, something i've never done before.

thanks david! this kind of offsets the last 'ballad' style one. it's like salt and pepper!! hehe

i have always loved the sound of the oberheims... one of the bands i played in back in the '80's, had a OB-Xa, and i just loved it. that, and the Yamaha CS-80 are my two favorite synths... thanks for that wookiee!

that's frikin' awesome steve!! thanks for the support, it's what makes it possible for me to do the NEXT one!! heheh

And I think the pedals i have worked really well with the IR choices, that makes the biggest difference when working with Distortion

hey paul! i think you said it just fine! heheh thanks mark. wah is my thing, always has been, since i got my very first FX pedal (a crybaby) and tried to learn all those hendrix licks. poppies..... poppies.... heheh the acoustic stuff, no secret there, i just capture it the way it sounds immediately coming off the fingerboard.. i use a Shure KSM44 for the capture, and run it directly into a rme babyface pro interface, and use waves plugins, usually the CLA-2A and some EQ, maybe a touch of room verb or a touch of plate.

hey john! ha, not naughty, just thoughtful... i don't think anyone cares if i bump a missed cause... glad you dig this one!

thanks kurt! yea, chunky.... i was trying to get some 'knock' out of some of the new IR's i was experimenting with... the recording was great to do that with, and i learned a lot about what i like, don't like, and will totally keep using of the IR business...

thanks Harry, that's cool of you to say, glad you dig this one... i'm working on a new batch of songs right now, that are in this flavor, but with vocals. 3 in, so far...

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/headin-eastwest 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. guitar geek stuff: for cabinet impulse responses i used 1.Celestion G12m in 2x12 closed back cab 2. Celestion 2x12 blues cab 3. York Audio Friedman 4x12 w/V30's cab. 4. York Audio Mesa 2x12 V30 LTD (this only cost $1, and is so good) marshall super lead and vox ac30 amp models in the strymon iridium for all these parts. i used everything on this pedalboard as well:

thanks so much david! i did several acoustic only versions of this, and they sound just like you would imagine, but i wanted a 'rock' version of it, without being too overblown, the middle section is probably pushing it!! LOL

ballad bump

thanks so much kurt!! def check out the ballad i posted... it's cool, getting new toys (the strymon iridium) and drums (toontracks rooms of hansa) because, it affords me new perspectives of what i'm hearing in my head, vs. what i can actually pull off in a recording. thanks for the comment

sunday bump, cuz it's spring