Jump to content

bats brew

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,366

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by bats brew

    Uriah Heep Anyone?

    in Songs

    Posted

    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.

     

    • Like 1

    Who Are You? - Sabbath Cover #3

    in Songs

    Posted

    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.

    finishing a song about life on the road: "Jezebel"

    in Songs

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Leadfoot said:

    This takes me back to some of that great rock in the mid 70s. Great mix. Everything is sitting perfectly. I'm able to hear every instrument, and nothing is trampling on anything else. Great guitar work, as is always the case with you. Vocals are great too. Love the bounce to this song. Great job!

    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

    • Like 2

    finishing a song about life on the road: "Jezebel"

    in Songs

    Posted

    On 11/12/2023 at 7:43 PM, John Vere said:

    Dang haven’t hat a Batfix in way to long and as always 1000 miles above everything else I’ve listened to in months. Your whole mix is just so huge on headphones. All the details you put in are not missed by me. Stereo image heaven. I think it’s definitely finished. 
    On my 3rd listen. Of note is the way you move the delay around. The ring in the snare is awesome and drum compression brilliantly done panning of fills and of course a wha wha 

    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?

    😁

    • Like 1

    finishing a song about life on the road: "Jezebel"

    in Songs

    Posted

    On 11/7/2023 at 7:10 AM, 53mph said:

    Great fun track. You can hear the enjoyment in the music. Love the guitars. Only crit would be that you bring in the lyric 'Jezebel' too early. I kind of feel that should be in the pay-off line, not the second line. Apart from that. Great.

    I know you may not take this as a compliment, but your vocal tone reminds me a little of Daniel Johnston (who is one of my favourite artists). 

    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.

    • Like 1

    Deliberately avoiding certain frequencies (especially highs)

    in Production Techniques

    Posted

    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.

    • Like 1

    finishing a song about life on the road: "Jezebel"

    in Songs

    Posted

    On 11/3/2023 at 4:43 PM, Terry Carroll said:

    This is good in every way. It's all there for a 80s glam song. 

     

    Terry

    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

    another one from the updated F1 Trilogy: "Bullet Train to Monaco"

    in Songs

    Posted

    On 10/21/2023 at 5:20 PM, markno999 said:

    Bat,

    I remember this one, this mix is much more in your face than previous version from memory.   Suits this style better.    I think you also changed the arrangement, I don't recall that break-down in the middle with the sounds effects.  Definitely a high octane trip.   Great stuff.

     

    Regards

    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!!

     

×
×
  • Create New...