bats brew

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/running-free would love some feedback on the mix, working this one up right now

another favorite from way back, of mine. great cover, mick box is just a bit different than any other guitar player i heard at that time... and trying to sing david byron, is just as hard as trying to sing freddie mercury, or elton john. it's a task, not for the faint of heart. gary thain is still one of my alltime favorite bass players, rip. great job on this one.

LOVE THIS ONE. you know, i just don't care about covers anymore, haven't for years, but i love this. what love for sabbath. sabbath is what started me off as a guitar player, so it's a life long love affair, and i dig anyone who cares enough to make such close covers, it's not karaoke, it's pure fandom. dig it.

hey thanks bapu! appreciate it.

https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/spliteq/ this might work

i love ed kings playing. a lot of character there.

wow leadfoot, thanks! this mix was fairly easy, compared to some of my other stuff... and i guess the 'bounce' you mention, is me trying to play ahead of the backbeat drum track, which i programmed backbeat, knowing i was going to push the beat with the guitars. i like playing with meter that way. and yea, it does bounce! heh

ok i changed the bass in the mix slightly, see if that makes it sit nice

thanks a lot, john! glad you liked it! drums are very dialed in, and i just tried to balance the eq with the panning in a way that spread everything evenly, and offered the most clarity. every mix is kind of like an experiment, eh? 😁

Remix today if anyone has suggestions

is the doc on utoob?

a great cover of a cool sab tune, i went back and listened to your national acrobat cover, wow, that one was really close! excellent.

hey 53! thanks for listening, glad you dig those guitars. it was fun tracking them. i thought about leaving that first jezebel out, like you suggest... funny you mentioned it. now, much later, i still think it works as the 'hook', it's like petty used to say, dont bore us, get to the chorus. LOL, maybe i could exchange the lyric right there with something similar, but different. i'll mull that one. daniel johnston, had never heard of him before you mentioned it here, thanks for the headsup, i will investigate.

ok, but this: "Deliberately avoiding certain frequencies"

YOU DONT want to avoid frequencies, you just want to get good at mixing them at the right level. gabriel is an outlier... that album is great, but stands in it's own little corner, specifically because of arrangement decisions. if you are emulating an old gabriel recording for a specific purpose, simply NOT using cymbals cuts out a lot of high end. but i'd never place an eq over the mix just to take out certain frequencies... that gets done at the track level.

hey thanks andy! glad you heard this one

thanks jack c! this one was so easy to get into the groove, i really liked this drum track for a simple rock groove.

Thanks for the review, Terry! I don't know much about 80s glam, I always considered glam to be early 70's, ala T Rex and slade, bowie, mott the Hoople, that kind of stuff. I did play a lot of 80's music in traveling cover bands, it wasn't very glamorous! Heh Thanks again

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/jezebel you might have heard the demo of this one, i've been trying to wrap it up, this is real close, i think. i wrote this one, using the drum track from the rolling stones' "tumblin' dice" as a template. if you stripped off all the music and played along with the drums, you could nail tumblin' dice! LOL it was just an experiment.

updated mix. i like that i can update mixes to bandcamp at will, if anyone gets a copy, they can keep updating it if they're that interested... eventually, the 'trilogy' will be released on the next album. i'm getting close.

that was cool! reminds me a bit of robert Palmer's more progressive stuff he did before Power Station love all the guitar ear candy the vocal stays front and center without being too loud and karaoke... nice job! like the smooth bass line.

hey mark! thanks so much for the time and for the listen sometimes, a mix just has to percolate for a while....! heheh the breakdown parts were always there, but with some magic parallel processing, i just brought them out more, made them more obvious, and it puts you right in the middle of that train.... the stop to pick up more, let off a few, the speed of the vehicle is there... and then when it stops, and i've got three guitars parts revving up to gear using the whammy bar... that was fun!!

the foculs are probably the best in that class, but not the best bang for buck https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/kali-audio-in8 another kali you might consider: https://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/156/in-unf-monitor-system/

maybe these https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Research-ER3SE-Edition-Earphone/dp/B07665KVD1/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=ER3SE&qid=1590058439&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=andrew000a-20&linkId=023055290e86bea0f00513c8068ccdc1&language=en_US

200 would be the lowest i'd go