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thanks man.

thanks so much andy

hey bapu!! thanks man, you know, i agree with how live the drums come across.. but i only have an old 16 bit stereo file to work with here, that drum kit recording came from over 10 years ago, with a program i no longer have! oops so, it's a stereo file. the wider it goes, the more the room sound comes in.. i COULD collapse the left and right together down to mono, and minimize that snare sound, and room sound. hm... i DID remix the bass track, for some reason, probably trying out different bass parts and picking different 1st and 2nd halves, i have a different bass channel for the 2nd half. and even tho the wave forms look identical as far as peak goes, it is a weaker sounding track, for sure. both bass channels are mono, and both are going into a bass sub bus, so i went back to the 2nd bass part, and just re-eq'd and leveled it by ear, and that really fixed that 2nd half. i added waves BB Magma tubes plug, and saturated it a bit, and then added a touch of Rcomp at about 75 hz, and that seemed to round out that track to better match the 1st... good ears!

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/on-your-way another new original, this will be on the upcoming bats brew release "The Wild Animals" this is a next to next to last mix... looking for feedback on freq balances mostly. i think i need more 60 hz and down (prolly subs on the kick), and bass guitar needs to come up on the 2nd half of the song.

hey mark!! you are the only one who has listened, so i want to thank you for giving this one a chance... yes, 'depth', i worked on that quite a bit... the idea of a 'lost dream', i think it needs depth, to create that ambience, that volume of space... there is only one reverb bus used, and one long delay bus, so everything that needed 'space', has a little bit of one or both. except the drums, they only have some room mics, no verbs added to any of the drum tracks. for the guitar solos, i used my trusty Boss DD-200 with a 'shimmer' effect, so you hear this 'bloom' happen at the end of long sustained notes, almost sounds like a keyboard synth, but it's just the guitar.

the main solo in the middle, that is my newly built custom tele with the Fralin pickups in it... the solo tracks, it's just one long solo track, that i keep changing the pickup selector on at will, but landed on the P-92 for the entire solo, i thought it sounded SO good... also, i used the Boss DD-200 in stereo, printed my effects in live time, and used the 'shimmer' effect. but i mixed it down a bit on the pedal, so it would not be too obvious there are a few spots, where you can hear the swell ring out, but i was riding it on the volume knob to keep it from taking over... i just recorded all the solos this past weekend. catalpa tele, with maple neck and fralin pickups [url=https://postimg.cc/JDK3zfY5][img]https://i.postimg.cc/JDK3zfY5/tele-new.jpg[/img][/url]

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/lost-dream this is a test mix of the song "Lost Dream" from the upcoming and updated album release "The Wild Animals" i hope you enjoy it. i'm looking for any mix suggestions, i think maybe the lead vox is too hot. maybe only in the front end, not so much the 2nd half...

i did use the new Waves Curves Equator in this mix, on a few sub busses, and on the master chain

Thanks Steve! I take my bass playing (and tone choices) very seriously, in fact, I usually spend twice as much time working out tones and the actual swing of the tune for the bass parts than I do guitar! Lol Well, actually, prolly more like THREE times more time! I try to create the bass part with everything already cooked in, so I have very little processing to do on the mix side. I use a combination of a Sansamp Bass DI, and my strymon iridium set up for a Marshall superlead driving a Ampeg 4x10 cab Blend those two together into a mono sub bus.

thanks for the kind words kevin! the electric rhythms are new, i used a tele i had built a couple of years back to re-do the rhythm parts. it changed the vibe quite a bit, to get rid of the heavier guitar sound, for one that had a bit more clarity. the acoustics, are all my Taylor 414, which is so big, it makes me look like a midget! LOL

ha! alright TOM! thanks for listening, and for commenting on the utoob. i almost never go there, i probably would not have seen your comment until thanksgiving!! LOL this song is a combination of old tracks and new ones... once i got my new Tele, i had to use it a bit, so i re-did the rhythm guitar parts using the tele. the solos are all original to the first session, this is the rig i used then:

Could be, they are panned hard left-right, but vocal level is very subjective, for example, i really don't like pop vocal mixes. I like a listener to get more into the mix I'll look at more mids in the voice, I don't think more treble would be.

hm. i hear it loud and clear.

thanks david! glad you got to hear this one. well, 80's rock is not my thing. i go back further than that, something like HUMBLE PIE would have been more of an influence, so the guitars are just exactly what i wanted for this particular tune. i did clean em up a bit... i've done em heavy before, as this song has been worked on for many years, but this new version, has my new tele featured for rhythm tracks, and new bass and drums, so completely revamped. thanks again for listening!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZstqC7nZeA added the companion video/visualizer