bats brew

alright John! thanks for rocking out... and yea, guitars CAN sing! heheh

DP eh?! i need more B3. LOL thanks wookiee

hi andrew! glad you dig this one... you know, i love guthrie, but i suppose i've been playing guitar longer than guthrie has been alive?! yep. i've been doing this a long time...

thank you jack! glad you dig it. this was all done in the box, and going direct with the guitars and bass, something i've never done before.

thanks david! this kind of offsets the last 'ballad' style one. it's like salt and pepper!! hehe

i have always loved the sound of the oberheims... one of the bands i played in back in the '80's, had a OB-Xa, and i just loved it. that, and the Yamaha CS-80 are my two favorite synths... thanks for that wookiee!

that's frikin' awesome steve!! thanks for the support, it's what makes it possible for me to do the NEXT one!! heheh

And I think the pedals i have worked really well with the IR choices, that makes the biggest difference when working with Distortion

hey paul! i think you said it just fine! heheh thanks mark. wah is my thing, always has been, since i got my very first FX pedal (a crybaby) and tried to learn all those hendrix licks. poppies..... poppies.... heheh the acoustic stuff, no secret there, i just capture it the way it sounds immediately coming off the fingerboard.. i use a Shure KSM44 for the capture, and run it directly into a rme babyface pro interface, and use waves plugins, usually the CLA-2A and some EQ, maybe a touch of room verb or a touch of plate.

hey john! ha, not naughty, just thoughtful... i don't think anyone cares if i bump a missed cause... glad you dig this one!

thanks kurt! yea, chunky.... i was trying to get some 'knock' out of some of the new IR's i was experimenting with... the recording was great to do that with, and i learned a lot about what i like, don't like, and will totally keep using of the IR business...

thanks Harry, that's cool of you to say, glad you dig this one... i'm working on a new batch of songs right now, that are in this flavor, but with vocals. 3 in, so far...

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/headin-eastwest Headin’ Eastwest- there is a little eastern intrigue happening in this slow heavy rock tune. It is a hopeful feeling song about taking journeys, long sojourns, to places you’ve never been before, and hoping for the best outcomes. You don’t need to know exactly what direction you are going, only that you are going. Could be east, could be west. guitar geek stuff: for cabinet impulse responses i used 1.Celestion G12m in 2x12 closed back cab 2. Celestion 2x12 blues cab 3. York Audio Friedman 4x12 w/V30's cab. 4. York Audio Mesa 2x12 V30 LTD (this only cost $1, and is so good) marshall super lead and vox ac30 amp models in the strymon iridium for all these parts. i used everything on this pedalboard as well:

thanks so much david! i did several acoustic only versions of this, and they sound just like you would imagine, but i wanted a 'rock' version of it, without being too overblown, the middle section is probably pushing it!! LOL

ballad bump

thanks so much kurt!! def check out the ballad i posted... it's cool, getting new toys (the strymon iridium) and drums (toontracks rooms of hansa) because, it affords me new perspectives of what i'm hearing in my head, vs. what i can actually pull off in a recording. thanks for the comment

sunday bump, cuz it's spring

thanks jack. yea, appropriate, there has to be some positive light at the end of this weird @ss year.

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/spring-morning Spring Morning: this is a song I wrote 20 years ago, but never actually recorded properly. It is supposed to capture the feeling of the first true spring morning after a long cold winter, where you stand outside in the early morning light, looking towards the sunrise, and realize it’s not quite as cold anymore. It’s a nice feeling. from the new bats brew album "Elemental"

bert, album here: Bandcamp: https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/ also apple music and amazon

hi bert!! where've you been?! i post stuff ALL the time! heheh i've got an entire new album of instrumentals, that are all over the place, including some real nice acoustic based pieces and some ballads... posting some more shortly... yea, the 7/8 thing was just..... fun. just fun. and i can roll with these kinds of grooves all day long, but try to do so sparingly on song formats...

hi fred! thanks so much, i love syncopation, and going 7/8 is a cool way to groove it. definitely try it!

as a side note, i just got toontrack's 'the rooms of hansa' and man, what great sounding kits and rooms... already 3 songs into the next album!

hi treesha! thanks for listening... yea, the unexpected, that's kinda the vibe with an old school bank robbery, i think... the modern ones are all slick and smooth.. this one is more like a cluster fffook!

well, soundcloud allows you to upload huge files... but whatever you upload, they still downgrade it to 128kbps streaming audio, which sounds like dooky! that's why i start with as high of a definition file as i can upload, which in this case, is 24bit 48khz.