bats brew

hi hockey! thanks so much for commenting. i'm not a real drummer, but in my head, i'm a kick @ss drummer!!! LOL this is all programmed in Superior Drummer 3. the arrangement more or less follows the rolling Stones' "Tumbling dice". the kit is a custom kit taken from a few different kits.

cool song whoisp! it's all good... i think the song is mastered too hot, tho... the utoob turns it down at least 5 db, this might be squashing your dynamics. i bet with a better mastering pass, even the busy drum part would pop a bit more, and maybe become perfectly intelligable. just a suggestions, not a critique!

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/jezebel i had posted a demo of this a couple of months back, got some good feedback on it, this is the final mix. hope you dig it.

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MIX BUS: i mix into a waves SSL g series compressor, set to just touching the signal. usually, i have a true peak level meter right after the compressor. i shoot for rms of -18, and peaks between -3 and -6. on my MAINS, i have a full mastering chain (EQ, Pultec EQP1A, SSL compressor, waves L2, waves L3 Multimaximizer) that i bring into the late stages of the mix, to determine how the mastering process will affect my mix, but turn all of it off when bringing my mix into an actual mastering session.

oh yea, at 2:45... from there on, i think the solo is on the Fralin P-92 neck pickup, it's a real unique tone for me, i really dig it. it sounds best when turned down about halfway, the treble bleed circuit is working, and the clarity is real sweet. that's the stately part, the long outro. i picture a crown. heheh

LOL

I am a jon Anderson. Lol (Inside joke.. More than once, I've been told I sound like Jon anderson...I don't hear it myself, but I've heard it for about 20 years)

THANKS GREM!

well thanks for checking it out Nio! the new guitar is a lot of fun to find tones on...

hey grem! yea, i like to work on mixes along with getting feedback from listeners.. usually, when i post something here, it's the first iteration of a few mixes to come... and then when i get them finished, i update the files to the latest greatest.. that's why if you actually purchase a tune (or album) you can keep downloading the different versions (if you care to) and have a 'history' of mix and arrangement changes. but either way, it's fun to keep working on them when i know i can improve them. the trilogy is finished, this was the last of the three. all the songs are posted at bandcamp, but i thought about putting the three together as an "EP", so i need to do that soon. in the order intended: https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-train-to-monaco https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/silverstone https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/open-wheel-champion

Thanks T !

wow, missed this for a month! i loved the 'sabbath bloody sabbath' album when it came out... played along with all these songs. excellent 'pure' cover. with your voice you could cover almost any sabbath... maybe not 'hole in the sky'....LOL, holy crap, that song. great guitar tones, excellent drum programming, great groove. yea, this would fool most people casually listening, they'd say something like "hey, sabbath remastered their old stuff again! great!"

New mix is up

thank you bapu!

and don't forget to check out the other two songs of the trilogy; bullet train to monaco Silverstone they kinda dovetail into each other

thanks symmetry! for listening and commenting.. i've gotten to where i mix til i think it's good thru my monitors, at high and low volumes... then, i have a session where i just mix in the cans. i make moves, eq's, stuff that i know is right because i vetted it with the monitors first.. then, after i mix in the cans, i go back to the speakers, and make sure that the translation is as close as i can get. so, good to know it's translating in the cans.

howdy ho dream art! i appreciate your comments, thanks

hey thanks ron, for checking out a 'instrumental', the lowest of lows on posts. heheh this new guitar has me inspired. it's giving tones i've not had before, i just have to have enough time to figure out what they are, and how to use them.

yes, i bought that stupid plug right when it came out. i never got it to work for me, the way i mix... i mean, it DOES work, but i never bonded with it, and never use it. i think that folks have been burning files and uploading a certain way for so long now, that the 'newest' methods take a long time to become 'the norm'. seems most folks opt for 1080 as the highest playback anyway, even if there are higher def options... maybe it's just a default setting for most.

HI ANDY! thanks for the kind words... this was an inspired performance, i kinda got lost in it.

Thanks Mark! This is the new mix, new master I got inspired by Ron, and mastered the new one about 2db quieter than the 1st one, Sounds much better to me. Crank it up!

ron, if your loudness meters isn't beefy enough: Waves WLM loudness meter https://www.waves.com/plugins/wlm-loudness-meter#how-to-set-loudness-levels-for-streaming-wlm i watched yours at 1080, just because that's the highest available on the megadeth channel. so i was comparing like to like. i agree with you, the place to really tame levels is on the channel level. i do the same thing. i have all kinds of cool compressors and limiters, and now i use a tube distortion circuit (waves magma bb tubes) and that dials it in even niceer (my RME Babyface pro has super clean preamps, so if i want color, it has to be after the fact. i do have some outboard preamps i could use, but i like the simplicity of the babyface) that's funny how you describe tracking bass, we're very similar that way. i usually track two tracks at once with a mono bass in, i use a sansamp bass di, and my iridium, and focus lows on the sansamp, and mids are run through the strymon iridium with a marshall head thru a ampeg 4x10 cab iR. your true peaks should be no less than -1.0db, or you are losing headroom you don't really need to lose... that said, it sounds good that way. folks way back when, used to create files with that much headroom for vinyl, but i aint doin' vinyl!! so, at -3.8dbTP, you could still push your numbers up to -1.0db, and have plenty of headroom for any codec.