bats brew

i got the analog covered! heh

On 7/7/2025 at 2:46 AM, Paul Bush said:

Yep that does it for me every time , loved that wah wah , Ive tried a few Vst`s never get any where near that tone , great piece of work classy cheers P

hello paul!

thanks for listening

yea, the wah is fun, especially on a song like this.

i don't use vsts for guitar stuff ever.

if i'm using my amp, it's a Mesa Boogie Mark IIb head, into various cabs, with various mics OR running the amp head direct into a Palmer PDI-09 for the line level capture.

or it's my direct rig:

the 

the strymon actually sounds the best, but the boogie is more fun to play!

On 7/5/2025 at 2:59 AM, Keith Wilby said:

High energy stuff. Great guitar work. Could have been the theme music for Top Gear 🙂

hey keith!

thanks for listening

top gear, yea! those guys are adrenaline junkies too...

this is a new mix of this song, so i'm trying to dial in the sweet spot of the rhythms vs the melodies,

i try a few new parts, and tweak the drums, and just try different approaches to the mix whenever i re-release something, like this one.

it's great with Bandcamp, i can update the wav files anytime, so if i really want to keep working on something, i can.

i upload 24 bit 48khz files, so it's as high def as i'm allowed to upload.

appreciate the comments

Did you catch the race?

How about the song?

the british grand prix.

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/silverstone

this is my instrumental version of running that race.
hope you enjoy.

On 6/22/2025 at 9:40 AM, Morenoize said:

Hi BB, nice one,  defenitely need more guitar solo's 😉

 

Rik

hehe, the whole song is a guitar solo!!

LOL, thanks for listening Rik

the snorkler has just recently been released from bogner,

interesting it went all the way back to this album.

a great guitar sound, but this seems unnecessarily complicated for the end result.

i think several songs could have been better mixed without 6 tracks of rhythm!

love this album.

On 6/3/2025 at 2:39 PM, Barry Seymour said:

I like the sound of this - very early 70s. (And I was there.)  Great playing!

hey thanks barry!

glad you checked it out.

i def am inspired by early 70's, more for the performance aspect than the recording aspect, but there is a lot to learn there..

that was where stereo was really coming into play, and they were trying new stuff,

a lot that seems to have been less used now.

Bumpin' again!

On 5/25/2025 at 12:15 PM, Paul Bush said:

Now if only I could play slide half as good as this i´d be rather happy , great track as always nice one cheers P

ha! paul, i really should dedicate one of my guitars to slide and get on with it! but i almost never practice it, and chide myself for not doing so every time i decide i really want to play some slide!

who knows, maybe NOT practicing, keeps things melodic and simple. food for thought.

thanks for listening, and commenting, i appreciate it.

On 5/24/2025 at 1:38 PM, ABull said:

Hey Bats, terrific production & performances  -- bit of a Joe Walsh approach to the vocals & slide guitars (very well played) -- I enjoyed this  -- Allan.

thanks so much allan!

On 5/24/2025 at 5:21 AM, subvibe said:

Hi

 

 

The vocals are coming through a lot clearer

i think they must of been clashing with the guitars

sometimes i use Smart EQ to try to carve a place in the mix for each instrument/part

great & tight song

 

subvibe

Thanks for coming back to check it.

Its good getting the last minute feedback.

I have Waves Curves I can use if I need ducking, but I prefer to fix issues in the mix with changes in Eq and panning.

On 5/21/2025 at 11:56 AM, subvibe said:

Hi

the musicianship is very good & its very tight

i just seemed to miss something on the mix, it sounded a bit thin & over compressed

so drowning out the vocals ...   sorry for being harsh but its my opinion

curious what other comments are As its a very well played song

success

subvibe

 

hey subvibe, thanks for listening and commenting.

the mix isn't thin, or overcompressed, the compression i use is very transparent, and i put across in multiple locations so there's never a buildup..

but the mix could be off.

i remixed it, and brought the vox up a bit, and changed the eq on it, so it sits in a different range of eq.

complemented that on the acoustic guitars.

i'll tell you, it IS a big difference when the opening electric rhythms are playing the dual slide parts, but then drop out when the vox comes in...

so i changed that part of the mix too, and i think it should sit better now.

This is the 1st song i've finished on my remix of "The Wild Animals" album.

new tracks, performances, mix, and appropriate timing! heh

"Worlds Goin' Down"

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/worlds-goin-down

dude develops software (or did)

excellent

tnx

No race this weekend...

But. You can hear the race! Heh

20 hours ago, Old Joad said:

Love this track, guitars are rockin' 🤘

thanks joad!

yes, this one was fun to track guitars on...

i got to play with several amp and speaker cab combos, 

try gain with the amp alone, and pushed with the pedal..

i love having the Iridium, i just reach up and twist a few knobs, like a real amp, and get immediate reaction.

On 3/21/2025 at 4:57 PM, Chaps said:

Pretty cool. I'm feeling a real Rickey Medlocke/Blackfoot vibe in it.

Hey chaps! Interesting, Blackfoot, I'm from Jacksonville originally. And knew a lot of those southern rockers, so yea. Maybe there's some influence in there@

I was a bit skynrd fan too...

Thanks for listening

On 3/19/2025 at 12:20 PM, T Boog said:

You did ok! 

Nah seriously, I can't speak to the mix cause I'm on my phone speaker but I like the playing and there's some cool arrangements in there.

It def works as racing music. Although I call that "surfing montage music". But it would work well for both.

Cool lead guitar tone btw. It has a nice, rich high-end pick attack. It sounds like a real, mic'd up amp to me. Im curious, what did u play thru for the solos?

 

HEY T BOOG!

thanks for listening.

what would my guitar sound like on a 'phone speaker'?!

i would imagine it would sound like an angry carpenter bee.

LOL

so, this is the guitar rig:

trying to channel that racing energy...

if you know about silverstone, especially the really WET one they had a few years back, there is a lot of stop and go, so that's in there too!

HAPPY ST PADDY'S DAY

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/silverstone-2025

well the new F1 season has started, and i decided to update mixes of my 'F1 Trilogy', the first of three, with the song 'Silverstone', which is the about the british grand prix.

this is a completely new mix from scratch.
i'm trying to create imagery of intense high speed car racing with the mix.
tell me i did ok!! LOL

On 2/23/2025 at 12:02 PM, Paul Bush said:

Great rock riff, super sounds , brilliant guitar how on earth do you get those drums so good ??

And, they're having a big sale now

On 2/23/2025 at 12:02 PM, Paul Bush said:

Great rock riff, super sounds , brilliant guitar how on earth do you get those drums so good ??

HOWDY HO PAUL~

thanks so much for the comments

those drums, i used superior drummer 3, built a custom kit (i think the basis was the room of Hansa "Marble Room" kit

(i hand tuned everything, used the superior mixer, and output to a simple drum buss (i typically add a pultec type EQP-1A for a bit of 60 hz push, and maybe 5k-8k on the high end, maybe 1 db., then i add a parametric eq and carve the low end for clarity.)

https://www.toontrack.com/product/the-rooms-of-hansa-sdx/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjZryypzfiwMVKRatBh2UmCHOEAAYASAAEgLmWvD_BwE