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bats brew

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  1. 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.
  2. well thanks jack! i had to work hard to get the backing tracks to 'hit' a little...
  3. 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!
  4. 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!
  5. 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.....
  6. 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.
  7. 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/
  8. howdy ho freddy j! thank you for listening and commenting. i'm real glad you guys are digging this stuff!
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Howdy ho cakeboy! Thank you for listening
  12. thanks for that jack! appreciate it
  13. 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.
  14. https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/walked-away this is the rocker with the swagger. pretty straightforward, it's a hopeful song about walking close to that edge, and pulling back. hope it can resonate with someone besides myself!
  15. Thanks old joad, I've been working at it!
  16. this one was fun to play, really, took about an hour to record the whole thing! they don't usually pop out so easy, that's for sure.
  17. hey lynn!! thank you for the comments
  18. Thanks for that cake boy! Yea, I always hope a new tune is entertaining, On this album I tried to have a little bit of everthing
  19. https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/the-time-is-magic from the new album, this is the title track. it's meant to just introduce the listener to the beginning of the album. it's kind of an instrumental... should effectively get you up out of your chair for a quick boogie, if it's doesn't, contact a neurologist. heheh
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