"Moonshine"-new acoustic song-2nd using ARC2

The ARC2 curve created for my room/monitors:




the frequency curve of my end-product mix:

Really nice piece and great acoustics Bat!!  I almost get a CSN vibe from this number.  Everything from vocals-instrumentation-production really works.  Excellent job.  Hey, maybe it could be featured on that show that Herb mentioned?

guitarhacker
moonshine, i saw the film about 'popcorn' sutton.
(RIP)
that was really cool...
i don't really know where the moonshine came from that i drank in York, south carolina, but i was told it came from a local judge.
just heresay..... 
appreciate the listen.
 

freddy J
thank you for listening, and commenting....
the moonshine show?!
heheh

Sounds very good Bat.  I would love to play live drums on this sometime.  I can't tell if the very low end is a shade too boomy or not.  I am not in a critical listening environment but I have heard your stuff many times before and this is like your normal stellar production.  

Well I have never drank any of it. I seen a guy light it once and that was enough to persuade me not to drink it 
 
The playing as always is hard to poke at. You can tell you have chops and good sounding guitars. The  vocals have that nice Eagles blend to them. How are you getting those harmonies? The old fashioned way or are you going through something? It doesn't sound artificial at all.
 
I just bought a new pair of ear buds to take on the go. Supposedly they compensate for bass loss that you get on a typical set of ear buds. What I'm getting in these is great, but I can't vouch for how they are translating the music yet.
 
Nice job Bat.

the guitarplayer
thanks for checking it on the high def phones....
you know i wonder if i should check mixes thru my surround...
i mean, i rarely listen to music that way, i wonder how many people do?
 

BBB
thanks bb.....
i think acoustics can either be the easiest, or the hardest thing to capture.
when i'm placing mics, i try to find the 'least' boomy spot.

and that's pretty much it.
basic acoustic recording Modus Operendi: flat eq going in, maybe i use the 80hz rolloff on the mic, but you can almost always spend about half an hour moving the mic all over the place, and trip across one good spot, where the true sound of the guitar seems to go into the mic...
and then don't move.
LOL
 

rimshot
drums, you are not the only one that has mentioned drums, but the way i hear this one, there is not drums.
it's almost more like a folk tune.....
or an old zeppelin song, they did a lot of songs without drums.....
the low end, if it IS too boomy, i can fix it.
it sounds deep and thick on my system right now, but i do not hear boomy.
that's one of those things i need to know.

wookie
thanks for the report on the events...
i'd love to hear events some time, they are one of the few of that level of monitors i've never heard...
but i hear from a lot of folks that use them.
potato whisky?
ugh, that sounds a bit nasty.
maybe it's reallygood! LOL

starise
i would imagine that some good moonshine would have as much octane as that additive they sell at autoparts!
heheh
harmonies are done the old fashioned way...
simply sung once, 2 and 3 part harmony...
then, certain harmonies i'll sing again, and blend the two tracks together on top of each other.
i do not know of anything to put harmonies thru, to make them sound any better than just singing them naturally, and trying to get a good blend by performing it well.
you know, earbuds are good for checking bass sometimes...
i know mine will tell me right away, if i have sub lows that i'm not getting off my monitors.
thanks for commenting

lynn
thanks for listening, i'm surprised you remember the last version..i've done a few, but only posted one, i think.
glad you dig this one

chuckC
thanks chuck, the ARC2 has definitely improved my monitoring.
i find it pretty amazing.
there is still some weirdness to it, but if i sit in the sweet spot, i can really hear what my real lows, and mids are doing in a way i cannot, in my room, without it.

Oh hell yeah, classic Batsbrew.  Why aren't you all over the radio man?  I've been going through songs waiting for something like this...beautiful acoustics, tasty electric guitar..I'm not telling you anything you don't already know very well.  Man I wish I could get that acoustic sound you're getting - you've got to spill your secrets sometime. 
 
That is a great song, the vocals are just so damn sweet, nice melody...it's stuck in my head.  You're a very good musician.  You need to be all over the radio, people need to hear this.

voda
thanks man.

radio, nah, it's overrated!!

 
 
there are really no secrets at all, to the sound....
my acoustics, a Taylor 414, and a Seagull Artist Mosiac, both sound very fine on their own....
and i just sit in front of a mic, and try to point it so that the guitar sounds balanced.
 
i run the mic into a fairly clean mic preamp (any good preamp will do) and run that into a compressor, set fairly mild, just barely reacting, and into the DAW to mix.
 
i'll often eq in the box, with low end roll off, high end lift, and maybe a freq or two tweaked up/down, and most often i'll leave them dry, or put a bit of room reverb on all the guitars at the guitar bus.

simple.
 

This is Very Cool.  Great guitar playing!!

pat,
thanks for checking it out..
and yes, the download (wav) definitely sounds better......

+1 on every positive thing said so far.  Impressive!

ralphie
thanks man, now i have two kinds of wet in my pants.
(wiggum joke)
 
malcom
appreciate the comments..
the rasp, i guess maybe i did all the vox in one sitting?
heheh, or, maybe something else...
 

scottytunes
thanks man. it's fun blending acoustic and electric, i may re-record a lot of the "Trouble" album with that approach.
gonna re-release it, so i might as well change it a bit...
 
olemon
thanks so much.
appreciate the listen


rebel007
thanks rebel.
the guitar riff is just a stone cold simple little thing, left hand wise..
the trick is getting the 'swing' into it.