bats brew

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/just-walked-away this one is a fun hard rock workout, with some cool harmony work and some wicked guitar parts. njoy!

hey sailor! appreciate the kind words! yep, on the cdbaby site, they only give you 3 spots, honestly, i just made that sh!t up on the spot! i grew up in jacksonville florida, so i was definitely influenced to some degree, by bands like skynyrd, and i always love the allman bros. so yea, i get that!

heheh, thanks wookiee

hey spak! i appreciate your comments. that was an actual rain storm, of all places, salt lake city!! and i simply stuck my AT4033 out the open door, cranked up the preamp gain, and let it run. that particular piece i used, seemed pretty dramatic, but would then go into a nice smooth rain. which is kind of the memory of the lyric.

this is a mellow, spacey acoustic/electric hybrid, a sort of folk song. njoy

hey tom! thanks for listening, glad you dig this one! this one is off my 2nd album, "The time is Magic", here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/batsbrew since this is a finished tune, i'll probably not mess with it anymore, i've got another project half done right now! and thats taking all the free time i have, which is not much! here's the guitar i used on this one:

hey lynn! this is off my trouble album, you can get it here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/batsbrew12 yes, this tune has several guitar tracks, some went thru the condenser. some thru a 57, and some direct thru a Palmer PDI-09. for certain levels of girth, i like the condenser (it's a shure KSM44). thanks for listening!

"Twilight Rain" https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/twilight-rain

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/work-it-out this is off my 1st album, re-released last year..... gave me a chance to use this ole '77 ibanez artist 2618 for some rhythm work all done in sonar

i've always loved the cadence and feel of a minuet. this reminds me of some of Rimsky-Korsakov's feel.... wookie, sounds like this one is only half baked, with some obvious timing issues.... i'm assuming this is a work in progress, i dig the layout, but not thrilled with the choice of sounds. maybe it'd work better full-on synth voices....?

there is an easier product to use that they make, funny enough, called 'ezdrummer2' that's how i got started. superior drummer 3, is just that... superior.

yea, could just be my bats-speak, they are pure recorded 'sounds', technically 'wav' files, but are triggered by midi. i call those 'samples'... that's what toontracks calls them. it's an incredible program, raw samples of killer kits, that you can then pull thru their own mixer, which has studio quality effects that you can apply to each drum individually, you can define how much of the room mics are in the mix, how much bleed from the kit into the other mic, etc, ad naseum. electronic drums too, and you can even use your own samples. i always wanted to make a kit with all the pots and pans in my kitchen. LOL

thanks so much, msmcleod! i appreciate that mr villanova, thanks for listening

hey, thanks for posting that... it's an impressive sound for sure (requiem) but to me, still feels totally like someone playing a keyboard triggering guitar samples... it's very stiff, does not have a 'real' feel to it, doesn't really talk to me. i know i like derek sherinian's guitar-like riffs and tones, he just kills it! but never feels like a real guitar, tho to a casual listener, it would never matter. toontrack Superior Drummer 3 (what i use) uses extremely well-recorded 24 bit drum samples that are triggered by midi info, it's a wonderful drum program, find out more here: https://www.toontrack.com/product/superior-drummer-3/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzbm_1IiC4QIVGsDICh3tug76EAAYAiAAEgKxpPD_BwE

heheh, michael, i had to chuckle just a bit..... i mean, it's a straightforward question for sure, but IF you can find ANYONE who is playing canned sounds and making them sound like THIS....... i wanna hear it! now! LOL...... yes, all real instruments, recorded in real time. the only thing that is 'canned' is my superior drummer drum tracks, and all of those i write from scratch, so in a way, they aren't really canned either.

hey sailor! i so dig it, that you guys that really aren't into this kind of stuff, are giving it a shot! i mean, even if you step out of the musician/singer category, and just look at it from a production point of view, it's very valuable to me, so thank you. i did tweak the vox more last night, and decided they needed to be a bit brighter, just to bring them forward just a touch, so this should help with some 'intelligibility'......!

hey daryl, so glad you checked this one out... you have such a good arrangement style, and i've been trying to dial mine back a bit, so nice to get feedback on it from you, thanks! ok wookiee! i can imagine if anything tickled your inner hairy ears wrong, you'd tell me! it's great getting feedback on playback from all these different systems i know you guys listen on.... thanks!

HEY JOHN B! thanks for listening.... even tho it's kind of a straight ahead rock thing, i tried to make it 'dynamic' like you say, i think part of that ability to be dynamic, is simply not crushing it with mastering. when i DO master this, i'll only bring the volume up about another 2db, and that's it. if you want i LOUD........... turn that dial that says 'volume'. ok lynn! no more tweaking..... oh wait, i tweaked it last night! oh crap..... no going back now! LOL hi freddy! theolonious monk, now THERE is a name that does not get dropped around here very often!! that sentiment he describes, i definitely can relate to that. when i record my stuff, i spend a good amount of time working out the demo stage......but when i go for what i call "keeper tracks", i try to let go of all the practice and 2nd guessing, and just let it go. i always hope that comes across in my stuff.

hi amicus! glad you dig this one... and super cool you checked it out even if it's not your thing! i appreciate that

ha! don't touch it.... man, that'd be so easy! LOL thanks for the vote of confidence! i wont tweak this much more

you know, i listened to this when you first posted it, and i thought i wrote a review then!! i guess i had a moment. LOL i dig this. it's a hot master, maybe TOO hot, but the arrangement allows it to be full on. personally, i'd love to hear a version of this song mastered to no more than -14LUFS, and see if it's way more dynamic that way. i always have a volume knob handy. i know how to crank stuff up!! LOL dig the solo tone. i love the overlaps. nitpicks: at 1:16, that time change just seems to fall apart. the fact that you keep playing thru it, allows it to come right back together... and i dig those light plucks on the rhythm, but they seem just slightly behind the beat when they first start, and catch up with the rhythm by the end of the bridge........

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/wild-animals-4 ok, number 4 mix i've posted on this one. this is unmastered. my issues with this nearly final mix, is i think the vox is too hot. if i bring the vox down overall, the rhythms sit better, bass and drums lock in better.. or, just leave everything alone, and bring up the rhythms only? as it is, i tend to want to bring everything else up, which is kinda backwards thinking!! LOL, what do you think?

NOPE! it's history.

ok, took this one down now, moving onto the vocal version.

hi bob! thanks for listening on this one, the vox i have for this, are not really going to cover anything, they kind of go along with the rhythm tracks, so the overall feel from the instrumental version wont change much!