bats brew

thanks for listening ksband! midrange.... above, is the frequency chart for this mix. you'll see, that at about 275hz, the peaks gently draw downward as the frequency goes up... there is a big dip at 460hz to tame some masking and buildup... but that the actual midrange (500 Hz to 2 kHz) is lower than the low end, as it should be for this kind of mix. now, if the mix i have is wrong, in terms of riding the bass guitar part, i get that... i'm still tweaking that part of the mix. but the graph does not show a buildup of midrange frequencies... i'd suggest that it might be your monitoring system or listening space. i prolly got the mix wrong! heheh, i don't doubt it... i'll focus on that bass mix. thanks!

howdy how mark! glad you dig the vox. i turned down the drums on purpose, at the end section, to match the intensity of the music. plus, to give the ears a break.... the song builds to a point where the line 'lovers we portray' happens, and then it needs to breath a bit. with the drums slamming away during the breakdown part, they sound out of place to me. maybe, i should turn the music down around the drums even further? the instrumental version, would have just been a 'pre' version of the song with vocals. i often write the music first, and i'm always thinking in terms of melodies, so almost any of my songs could be turned into intrumentals, or vice versa. i don't have the instrumental version up anywhere anymore. i rarely leave stuff posted, unless it is for sale.

hey thanks andy! i had some earphones like those, they are a comfy listen.

hey kevin! yea, that solo was fun, it was def not charted out! right off the cuff, as they mostly all should be. glad blackmore didn't wing the 'highway star' solo tho!! heheh thank you for listening

hi nigel! thanks for listening. you know, the drums, in solo, just sound huge to me... there is more room info there i could bring in, to create the 'fatter' effect........ i'm on the fence about how dry to mix drums these days, i like a bit of natural ambience, and god knows, the superior drummer program offers tons of that!! but i have kits created in vocal booths, big wooden rooms, marble rooms, live rooms... lots of rooms available. and yet, some of my favorite pro release drums mixes are bone dry. go figure!

i have 3 LDC's, but my favorite is the Shure KSM 44. great on any source. a shoutout for my cheapest one as well, a ADK Hamburg.

hi bapu! the hd598's sound good to me... i have the sennheiser jubilees, sort of similar... the drums can't be as fat as i'd like because they are masking the bass. i found a happy medium between the two where the energy level is still high, but the mud is dialed out. this is just the first mix, so i'm still working on it, and i'll go back and see how much of the 'meat' of the drums i can dial back into it. i did favor the 'whack' of the drums over the boom, just because of that issue...

thanks jack! wasn't really going for 'gigantic', so i gotta sit and listen to it and figure out what did that! so i can do it again... heheh

hey thanks for the pep talk larry!! heheh, i don't know about 'market', don't know if there IS a market! but glad you dig the mix. thanks for listening

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/running-free this is a new one, that i posted in instrumental format some time back. this is the latest mix with full vocals. how does it translate for you?

thanks!

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Hey thanks david!

hey thanks mark the groove is different, for sure, it seems slow, yet it drives. i didn't really envision it that way, it just turned out that way. i think there is just enough syncopation, between the solo and the rhythm, to keep kickin' it in the butt.

you have to define 'professional monitoring system' there are so many options now, i don't think anyone could point you to any one solution. it boils down to how much you have to spend,. once that is determined, the choices get easier.

thank you tom! glad to oblige

thanks nigel! guitars were really fun on this, once i had the tones i wanted dialed in, it just kinda flowed.

Yea, links to my album are on the song links

HA! lost art, i agree... for me, it's always been about 'the album', not the singles. but hey, that's me. when i sit down to program an album song sequence, it's a long process, a lot of thought goes into it. hopefully, when someone actually sits and listens to 'the album', they get a better experience for it. hopefully! thanks john

that is phuckin' ugly.

hey mark! thanks man, yea, the wah at the end, that felt pretty natural. i usually don't walk up to the wah and say 'i'm going to use you now...', i kind of mindlessly walk to the pedalboard and suddenly i'm on it, so i don't use it unless that willful mindlessness takes over. now, i never use reverb for anything, unless the production calls for it. as a rule, i don't ever think about reverb. if i can make a good mix without reverb, i will. i'm ok with using delays, more than reverb. now, if i wanted to push something BACK in a mix, i'd use verb, but not to pull it forward. that kinda goes against the verb laws. LOL but yes, as a 'producer', i listen to my mixes that are dense, and work for clarity and a 'hand in glove' approach with parts vs volume vs panning vs arrangement, with 'arrangement' being the most important element.

hey andy.. stormbringer hadn't thought about that album in quite a while.... i liked burn so much, loved the dual lead vocals...hard to believe that was way back in 1974!! According to Glenn Hughes, the slurred gibberish that is spoken by Coverdale at the beginning of the title track just prior to the first verse is the same backwards dialogue that Linda Blair's character utters in the film The Exorcist, when she is questioned by the priest. LOL Lady Double Dealer, soldier of fortune , the gypsy, all really good tunes. another amazing album by Martin Birch.

hey andy! i loved purple, growing up, it was all about trying to learn the ritchie riffs! but, after i did all that, it was really the GROOVES that kept me coming back... so yea, purple, would be an influence, rhythm guitar is where this song lives, for sure. but since there's no keys on this, and very little jazzy drums, and quick turnaround, i don't hear the purple directly... it's quite interesting, what different people hear when listening to new music, i think it's fascinating.. i appreciate your sharing that!

THANKS JACK!