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i'll stick to my Strymon Iridium. super happy with it. $399.

nice, that hit the spot today.

ok, updated.

fixed. tnx.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-train-to-monaco completely new mix. different drum kit and room treatments. i may final tweak the kit a bit more. i like the snare snap, but it may...be too much. and i guess, a different approach to the mix. it's quite a bit more in the face. i think it works better this way than the demo i previously posted.

allan holdsworth: Discography Solo albums Studio 1976: Velvet Darkness 1982: I.O.U. 1983: Road Games (EP) 1985: Metal Fatigue 1986: Atavachron 1987: Sand 1989: Secrets 1992: Wardenclyffe Tower 1993: Hard Hat Area 1996: None Too Soon 2000: The Sixteen Men of Tain 2001: Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie 2016: Tales from the Vault Live 1997: I.O.U. Live 2002: Live at the Galaxy Theatre (DVD) 2002: All Night Wrong 2003: Then! 2007: Live at Yoshi's (DVD) 2018: Live in Japan 1984 2019: Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '98 (CD & DVD) 2020: Frankfurt '86 (CD & DVD) 2021: Leverkusen '97 (CD & DVD) 2021: Leverkusen 2010 (CD & DVD) 2022: Jarasum Jazz Festival 2014 (CD & DVD) Collaborations 1980: Conversation Piece – Part 1 & 2, with Gordon Beck, Jeff Clyne and John Stevens 1980: The Things You See, with Gordon Beck 1988: With a Heart in My Song, with Gordon Beck 1990: Truth in Shredding, with Frank Gambale/The Mark Varney Project 1996: Heavy Machinery, with Jens Johansson and Anders Johansson 2009: Blues for Tony, with Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip (live double album) 2009: Propensity, with Danny Thompson and John Stevens (recorded 1978) Compilations 2005: The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock 2017: Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection 2017: The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! The Allan Holdsworth Album Collection (box set) With other artists[edit] 'Igginbottom 1969: 'Igginbottom's Wrench Nucleus 1972: Belladonna (released as a solo album by Ian Carr) Tempest 1973: Tempest 2005: Under the Blossom: The Anthology Soft Machine Studio: 1975: Bundles (band member) 1981: Land of Cockayne (guest musician) 2003: Abracadabra (as Soft Works) (band member) Live: 2003: BBC Radio 1971–1974 2006: Floating World Live 1975 2015: Switzerland 1974 (CD, DVD) The New Tony Williams Lifetime 1975: Believe It 1976: Million Dollar Legs Pierre Moerlen's Gong 1976: Gazeuse! 1978: Expresso II 1979: Time Is the Key John Stevens 1977: Touching On 1977: Re-Touch Jean-Luc Ponty 1977: Enigmatic Ocean 1983: Individual Choice 2007: The Atacama Experience Bruford 1978: Feels Good to Me 1979: One of a Kind 1986: Master Strokes: 1978–1985 (compilation) 2006: Rock Goes to College (CD/DVD, live in 1979) U.K. 1978: U.K. 1999: Concert Classics Volume 4 (live 1978; reissued variously as Live in America and Live in Boston) 2016: Ultimate Collector's Edition (box set) Gordon Beck 1979: Sunbird 1980: The Things You See Jon St. James 1986: Fast Impressions (guest soloist on "Fast Impressions" & "Rainy Taxi") Krokus 1986: Change of Address (guest soloist on "Long Way From Home") Stanley Clarke 1988: If This Bass Could Only Talk (guest soloist on "Stories to Tell") Stuart Hamm 1988: Radio Free Albemuth Jack Bruce 1989: A Question of Time (guest soloist on "Obsession" & "Only Playing Games") Alex Masi 1989: Attack of the Neon Shark (guest soloist on "Cold Sun") Chad Wackerman 1991: Forty Reasons 1993: The View 2012: Dreams Nightmares and Improvisations Level 42 1991: Guaranteed Gorky Park 1996: Stare (guest soloist on "Don't Make Me Stay") Steve Hunt 1997: From Your Heart and Your Soul Steve Tavaglione 1997: Blue Tav Derek Sherinian 2004: Mythology K² 2005: Book of the Dead Corrado Rustici 2006: Deconstruction of a Postmodern Musician (guest soloist on "Tantrum to Blind") Planet X 2007: Quantum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Holdsworth Holdsworth has been cited as an influence by a host of rock, metal and jazz guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Greg Howe,Shawn Lane,Richie Kotzen,John Petrucci,[Alex Lifeson, Kurt Rosenwinkel,Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Romeo,Ty Tabor,Fredrik Thordendal Daniel Mongrain, John Frusciante, and Tom Morello. Frank Zappa once lauded him as "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet",while Robben Ford has said: "I think Allan Holdsworth is the John Coltrane of the guitar. I don't think anyone can do as much with the guitar as Allan Holdsworth can." that's a SHORT list~!~ LOL Immediately after I.O.U.'s release, guitarist Eddie Van Halen brought Holdsworth to the attention of Warner Bros. Records executive Mo Ostin. Van Halen had previously enthused about Holdsworth in a 1980 issue of Guitar Player magazine, saying "That guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him", and that Holdsworth was "the best, in my book". Furthermore, in a 1981 interview for Guitar World magazine, he said that "To me Allan Holdsworth is number one".

uh, no.

Allan Holdsworth. or edward.

i bought my waves plugins. i own them. no lease at all. i'll use them for a thousand years.

thanks again mark! the trilogy idea just kinda came about on its own, as i got more entrenched in watching formula one, it just seemed like an obvious thing to run with.

thanks so much terry! i tried to make the guitar the voice. i have so many songs (so many...) with lyric and singing, that i need some balance in my repertoire, this seems like the best way to find it!! but you are right... it's such a simple song, simple arrangement, it'd be easy to write a lyric to it.. but it really doesn't need it.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/open-wheel-champion

Thanks Mark I've got the kick dialed in now, gonnA upload it shortly... Maybe check it again tonight?

hey thanks tim! kicks are usually pretty subjective, but i know there will be systems or cans or earbuds where it might come across too much, so i'm trying to dial that in as best as i can. that kit, is one of 3, that i'm shooting to make my 'sig' sound kits. the wah, ha, my first effect pedal. i kinda grew up on the wah, i use it without even thinking about it. i guess i'm going for a more 'vocal' sound, listened to a lot of jeff beck and hendrix. thanks for listening!

how's the kick translate? actively working on the kick, would love some feedback on that, it's a superior drummer kit i custom built in SD using 'rooms of hansa', with a Masshoff twin shell kick. i'm not sure if the kick has too much level, or too many lows. two mics on the kick, the 'sub' is tweaked right at 100 hz, the other mic a bit below 100hz.

i updated this mix especially for Max Verstappen, the Formula One open wheel champion for 2023! it's an anthem, big mix, and i used my new Tele for the first time, to record the guitar parts for this. it's part of a 3-song trilogy, inspired by F1. enjoy! https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/open-wheel-champion

bowie was lucky to have hooked up with ronson. gave him real rock cred.

it snowed in the mountains here.

i do not miss the vinyl sound. i DO miss that ritual of opening up the album, taking it out, putting it on the platter, setting the needle, kicking back with the album art, and just listen. for, about, what, 20 minutes?! LOL, then have to get up, flip it, and do it all over again... but i never thought vinyl was very accurate. noisy. and if you didn't have your turntable far enough away, or, in my case, floating in the air riding on a macrame sling, the low end would make the needle jump!! how annoying... i bought a nice Yamaha Natural sound receiver, cd player and tape player set back in 1980, gave it to my parents, 20 years later, i had it back, and still have it! i rip my own albums from my cd collection, and i have a hundred cassettes that STILL play, but no vinyl.

i heard many words.

very interesting, all 4! thanks

yep, not impressed at all. it's too....average. for a band like the stones, with all that experience, like a self stereotype.

tequila, and some pineapple express (crossing Trainwreck with Hawaiian) would be my go to.