bats brew

PICKED THIS PLUG UP SATURDAY... very interesting. come to find out, i'm not very good at finding bad resonances and masking all on my own. i mean, i was getting there.... slowly but surely.....

funny, i just about decided to pick up Soothe 2. how timely!

after 4 days posted, and only 2 comments, i'm movin' on with this one. got it dialed in now. 4 down, 6 to go, album release. next!

akg headphones! heh, i've got some akg headphones too, the 240s model, i upgraded (well, side stepped at least!) to the Sennheiser Jubilee, but still use the akg's to check certain things. good headphones for the price. i guess with headphones, it's great for the 'stereo spread' experience, but it's real hard to judge low end with headphones, and that's usually what i'm working on the most, right to the end, trying to get the low end to lock. most of the time, i have to carve frequencies to get it to totally work, when i can't find the answer. carve. but i hate having to do that, and more times than not, i try to find a kick that i like, to occupy one zone, and a bass guitar setting that sits somewhere else. if i really take the time to set this up in advance, it always makes it easier to mix later. thanks for listening!

Sounds like time for an upgrade! Heh

hm. listening to tunes on the little baby speakers on a phone? i don't know what to say.... i guess i should preface this by saying, i'm not mixing songs to sound good on tiny speakers. maybe ear buds, yea, or even headphones, i try to get my mixes sounding awesome and big on headphones, with full separation and full range. but a phone? why would you want to listen to stuff on a phone? i hope you get to hear it on a proper system. rock on

gonna work on this one again tonight, any suggestions? after tonight, i'll take the mix down, or i could post an update...

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/middle-of-nowhere-test-mix another new test mix, i want this one spacy, but not too spacy... drums dry, but with a bit of room character. this is the 1st of a couple of passes at final mix. want to make sure the bass sits ok.

Sorry freddie, Just not much interest in this one. I'm actively working these mixes, I've already remixed this one twice since I posted it... moving on to the next song

updated mix and arrangement, new link: https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/michaels-house

thanks a lot andy, appreciate the listen. got a new mix i'll upload tonight.

ha! i love delays too.... WHEN im playing, not sometimes, when i'm mixing. i don't want any mud in the water. i like a clean swimming pool. LOL i like to blend my love for gilmore, with my love for R. blackmore. heheh, it's a weird blend, i know. thanks so much for listening

thanks for the comments, steve! yes, tweaking drums tonight, new file will be uploaded after that. i have more tricks to use!!

who is oasis?

hey kevin! thanks for the kind words. yea, the harmony guitars are fun, i usually just wing one of em, and then go back and learn the harmony to it. so one's easy, ones' hard!! LOL i think i have a delay on some of the faster harmonies, i need to take that off when it speeds up. i meant to only put the long delay on the last note of each of those passing sections....

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/michaels-house another song off the upcoming release of 'The Wild Animals', this song is a true story, a requiem of sorts for a good friend that is gone. i'm doing final mixes now, would like some mix feedback if you hear anything out of place. i already know i have a peak at 200hz i've got to deal with. i'm also going to tame a few passes of the drum track, so little things i still have to do. looking for big picture stuff mostly.. thanks in advance.

Ok, moving on

hey jack!! thanks for listening to my song, i appreciate it!

https://batsbrew.bandcamp.com/track/on-your-way-test this is the 2nd song towards final tweaks for a new album release. i'm working hard on finalizing mixes now, so i'm hoping to post each one and get a quick read on if there are any translation issues with the mixes. i've tried a few mix ideas on this one, that may or may not totally work, just looking for some basic feedback on this one.

ok, last pass at this mix, i'm finalizing this weekend.. then, hopefully, i'll have time to do the rest of the album!

hey T! thanks for listening if the translation is good thru the iphone earbuds/hearing aids, then that's extra cool. i don't have anything like that to test translation. and it IS a matter of figuring out how much upper mid, and upper lows, i can bring out for clarity, without mud. i mean, if you listen to this thru a full range system LOUD, you will hear the subs, but i have it rolled off pretty high, starting around 80hz, but with a shallow Q... meaning, there still is a good bit of info below 80hz, but the kick at 55hz, and the bass as low as 40hz, is still represented. when i jack up the subs, with kick and bass, it just sounds muddy to me. might sound awesome in a club playback! but not on headphones or buds, which seems to be what most folk are listening to these days. thanks again!

Thanks man, I spend a good amount of time on arrangements, but try to knock the performances out in one pass, to try to keep it sounding fresh. Thats why there are irregularities! Lol

thanks steve~ i re-eq'd the vox today, that should help with the clarity in the high end, check the new mix, see what you think!

thanks for listening JOAD! i remixed today, and it's a bit tighter and pushed in the low end, see if that makes that moving part fill in better. new link is up!

hey mark! thanks for helping out... i'll dial those harmonies in a bit tighter... sometimes i just like the harmony part better than the lead part! but if it sounds funny, i need to smooth it out. soundclick, i had before soundcloud. the reason i moved to soundcloud then, was because it sounded better than soundclick. maybe, enough time has passed, that soundclick improved their streaming? dont' know, but it's impossible to make any kind of real comparisons or mix/master suggestions from a 128 kbps mp3 stream.