bats brew

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/lake-katherine this is a song off of my new album, called "The Wild Animals" it's a love song! ha! I used the Taylor 414 and Seagull Artist Mosiac seen in this photo: miced with a shure KSM44, pointed somewhere near the neck/body joint. vox with a ADK Hamburg. bass direct.

hi paul~! thanks for checking this tune out, i thought a few here, would really dig the spacier vibe.

damn freddy! thanks for the kind words man, appreciate it. this lyric, is pretty much a real dream i had, forgot it when i woke up, then re-dreamed it with a different ending!! LOL i'm actively working on slowing down meters on tunes right now... when i feel it's totally in the pocket, i slow it down just a few BPM more... seems to work out well.

hi starise! hey thanks for taking the journey, for me writing this kind of stuff, that is definitely the vibe i want to put across, and if you are in the right head space, i know it'll be a cool vibe. so thanks again, for listening, and commenting

HI andy! vocals should ALWAYS be in tune!!! LOL and without that danged new fangled contraption that takes a poor voice and makes it stellar!!! who knew!!!! heheh, ok, off of soap box for now. thanks for listening, man, yea, coming up with the right formula for dreamy and complex, aint easy! i had long lasting slow delays on the voices, just like you said, and after i lived with it for a while, it was too distracting for me, it took away from the tension i was building after the voices quit... seems like there is always a compromise to be met, maybe one day i'll nail the mix just right. means i gotta write some more spacey songs so i can experiment!

hey douglas! thanks man, glad you dig the vox, i work the hardest on the vox. i pretty much keep at each track til i get something that doesn't cause me to make that face that you get when you eat lemons. heheh

hey tom! yea, i just love that organ sound... i guess i must have spent the better part of an evening just trying different sounds... the vst i used had about 200 different sounds, so i had to learn what i liked best, by just grinding out several hours of demo'ing. i think it starts with a simple electric piano blended with a B3 organ sound...two keys at once. underneath there is a big horn kind of synth, playing real low, and then i bring the B3 sound in more dominant. then when the song starts, it's that pure electric piano blended with the hammond again, but put thru several distortion elements. makes it kinda spooky. the 'ahhh's' at the end, were actually there (conceptually) before i even started to record this.... in fact, maybe i wouldn't have done it if i HADN'T heard those silly aahhhhss. LOL thanks so much for listening

hey paul! thanks so much for listening. yea, the wah.... that was my very first effect, so i've always been drawn to it. hendrix did that to me. hi andy! yea, i dig the floyd too... you know, if i didn't work a full time job, and could just write tunes, i bet i'd have 3 finished, every week... x4 weeks a month, that'd be 12 songs in a month, more than enough to release an album!!! as it is, i have to steal time, usually an hour at a time, and piece it all together from memory, and my memory's not that good!! LOL

HEY GARY! REALLY glad you like this one...it's a special one, for me, anyway... this started out as an instrumental, and featured more guitar solo instead of the lyric parts.. maybe i should put a whole album together of just this kind of stuff.

heh! hey tom, yea, i posted this one back during the demo process.... this one's a bit slicker than the one i posted before i finished, sometimes i think i'll post the before and after, but then i figure 'zero reason' to do it.... i've already done it by myself a dozen times!! glad you dig this one, thanks!

this is my floyd influence showing. ? fresh off the new bats brew album "The Wild Animals" This one was based on an instrumental i did way back when, on a cassette-based multitrack machine. it was originally called "Pali Face". i always wanted to do a song version of this, and once i got the lyric idea, the arrangement came together nicely. Lost Dream lyric: Here’s the dream that floats along the ceiling, Out the window, lost into the breeze. Walking in the dark there is no seeing, Fight the fear that brings you to your knees You stand along the edge to nowhere, You slowly fall into the sea. You run as hard as can, to something, A brilliant light envelopes all. That’s when you learn you found the answer, It came to you in a dream…. It comes to you, in another dream…. in another dream.

wanted to feature a tune that's a bit different than the other ones on the album: "Lake Katherine"

WOW! so much fun, with an iconic tune. congrats!

hey douglas, thanks so much man, glad you dig this one. took this one down, gonna post a new one now....

HEHEH, freddy, crack me up... thanks man, i'm glad you dig my stuff, i hope more folks get to hear some of it. i tried to put an album that worked from beginning to end together, like my favorite old classic rock albums. it's got pacing, and ebb and flow, and a bit of drama and goofiness, the whole thing. you really have to hear it from beginning to end, to get the whole vibe.

hey david!! thanks for listening, i appreciate it. you know, i used to play several reggae songs back when i toured doing cover tunes, and i've always been a huge bob marley fan, have several of his albums on forever rotation, but i don't think i could do a legit reggae vibe, without it sounding a bit karaoke... it's an intriguing idea, i think i'll go there with a demo, and see what happens....

yea, i bought a pedal recently, and decided not to keep it, took it back, instant credit back, no issues. and, they honor other shop's lowest prices as well.

well, i really,REALLY appreciate that synk! sometimes i feel like it aint worth it... but then i remember that im doing it mostly for the fun of it!! ??

hello andy! thanks so much for listening, yea, you def hear some blackmore DNA in my playing.. i cut my guitar teeth on DP and rainbow.

that's frikin' awesome andy!! thanks for the support. if you did the download, and want the wavs, or high def, gratis, i'll hook you up. pm me.

ha! hey synkotron! cloud of sound, is what they should call it, it floats in and out at times.... seems to NOT be the best streaming service! LOL hey, thanks for listening and commenting... what's great, rather than fan rubbish, is to hear about certain arrangement or mix elements that work, or dont work, even if it's a finished product, i often use comments for current projects, to get ideas to try, or fix things i missed before. i may crank out a lot of tunes, but i'm trying to make them all 'no filler'. heheh so, i have to keep upping my game, and i need feedback to do that. so any comment is great, even if you say it sucks.

wow, nobody? this is a good one, folks.

hi starise! thanks... and i hope it starts to do well!! heheh, i'll leave the light on, for any interviewers.....

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/middle-of-nowhere this is off of the new Bats Brew album "The Wild Animals" if you want to pick up a copy and support your vitual local musician, it's here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/batsbrew13 SONG INFO: ah, the middle of nowhere, is the center of everywhere~! just when you think you are lost, you're not. that is, if you are where you want to be. sometimes i want to be in the middle of nowhere. it is compelling. this tune came about as a direct influence from listening to an older Queens of the Stone Age tune... or rather, an album: Songs for the Deaf. i had been listening to this album, and when i was done, i had this beat in my head. nothing i had heard from my listening experience, but still, this beat was in the head. it's almost like a backwards shuffle! like if you turned it around, played it backwards, you could jam to La Grange or Tush. LOL i guess the message is, when you are with who you want to be with, anywhere you go together, is the center of everywhere. lyric: Middle of No where Stand, in the middle of no where Fly, to the center of everywhere Look around and get your bearings, Your moving on the path i'm sharing We're looking out for each other You are my only lover Middle of no where is the center of everywhere Center of everywhere, Center of everywhere Middle of no where, Middle of no where Center of everywhere, No where, everywhere, No where, everywhere, No where, no where, No where, everywhere, No where, no where. recording specific stuff: the drum track was written in superior drummer 3.0, with a custom kit where every piece was taken from multiple kits and edited for sound. ok, pulled out all the stops on this one, as far as guitar stuff goes... guitars used, left to right: '82 Carvin DC200K, with duncan custom custom in bridge; '77 Ibanez Artist 2618, stock; "86 custom build, strat/paul/explorer hybrid, with bill lawrence pickups and a lil 59'r in the bridge; '04 custom USACG strat build, with bill lawrence pickups. Demeter silent Speaker cab with celestion V30; used for clean rhythm track. (2) Roland 1x12 cabs, closed back, one with celestion Heritage G12h-55, one with Carvin British series; Avatar Vintage closed back, with old celestion G12C-30 '82 Mesa Boogie Mark IIb. Palmer PDI-09 for one of the rhythm tracks; miced roland cab with 57 for other rhythm track; Shure sm57 miced onto Avatar for the solo; PDI-09 for solo harmony track. every track used a different guitar, with the white strat used for the solos. i used a little ibanez short scale bass, a Mikkro model, thru a Sansamp Bass DI. surprisingly enough, the little short scale bass sounds BIGGER than my full scale Carvin LB70. Vox were done with a ADK Hamburg, being driven thru a ART DPS preamp. percussion done into a Shure KSM44.

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