batsbrew
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"Waiting to Shine"
https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/waiting-to-shine (downloadable wav file if you hit the right button) a sort-of shuffle, about some buddies having a hard time finding jobs, commiserating together at the local watering hole, waiting to shine.
post edited by batsbrew - 2014/12/23 18:27:50
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Wookiee
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/10 11:56:06
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It sounds OK here, well better than OK  Has much of your normal shine, polish, slick licks and production skills. What else can I say, thanks for sharing 
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/10 12:36:17
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Thanks for sharing Bat.
I don't think I've come across a finer example of guitar tone anywhere...and your song ideas never fail to interest. As always...great music!
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/10 14:05:49
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"BATS BLUES". I love this tune. I am probably over 75 listens to it on my phone. Great CD.
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batsbrew
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/11 11:36:47
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Wookiee
It sounds OK here, well better than OK
Has much of your normal shine, polish, slick licks and production skills.
What else can I say, thanks for sharing
thanks for listening wookie.... you know, you say 'polished', but honestly, i was trying to make this one a little more 'raw', in keeping with the subject matter. for me, the mix is kinda built into the arrangement... i pretty much just brought the rhythm guitars up and panned them.... added dual lead tracks, and sent all the guitars to one buss.... did the same to the lead vox and backups.... and the drums are completely un-processed, they are superior drummer samples, but the tracks are raw output, that i just mixed like a normal kit... i wanted it to be sort of 'blues-y', and loose... maybe i should have had more to drink while i was tracking. LOL tnx again....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/11 11:57:43
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Wookiee
It sounds OK here, well better than OK
Has much of your normal shine, polish, slick licks and production skills.
What else can I say, thanks for sharing
thanks for listening wookie....
you know, you say 'polished', but honestly, i was trying to make this one a little more 'raw', in keeping with the subject matter.
for me, the mix is kinda built into the arrangement...
i pretty much just brought the rhythm guitars up and panned them....
added dual lead tracks, and sent all the guitars to one buss....
did the same to the lead vox and backups....
and the drums are completely un-processed, they are superior drummer samples, but the tracks are raw output, that i just mixed like a normal kit...
i wanted it to be sort of 'blues-y', and loose...
maybe i should have had more to drink while i was tracking.
LOL
tnx again....
Raw does not mean that the final can not have that glisten of polish. I was trying to say something nice and complementary without tripping out the same stuff, you know exactly what I mean. You have to remember I have to translate all this into Shyriiwook and then back to this thing you call English 
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/11 12:03:29
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/11 18:14:51
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Dang dude! This thing rocks! Reminds me of stuff I heard in beer halls down in Texas. Two thumbs...
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/12 07:49:16
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Nice..... polished or raw... or both... this is a great tune. Well done with those classic "Bat-tone" guitars going on. Love those twin licks that you have happening throughout. Cool ending to the song....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/12 18:10:11
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Starise
Thanks for sharing Bat.
I don't think I've come across a finer example of guitar tone anywhere...and your song ideas never fail to interest. As always...great music!
i appreciate the words of encouragement there, starise....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/12 18:11:15
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dcumpian
Dang dude! This thing rocks! Reminds me of stuff I heard in beer halls down in Texas. Two thumbs...
Regards,
Dan
the beer halls, yes, the beer halls! LOL this turned into a shuffly kind of thing, but it didn't start out that way....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/12 21:00:30
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Great job bat. No issues at all. One nit: The center is pretty full. The R & L sides seem a bit low in volume comparatively until it gets to about 2:30. At lower volume levels it works OK.
Your song and arrangement/playing is superb as always.
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/13 12:48:50
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Guitarhacker
Nice..... polished or raw... or both... this is a great tune. Well done with those classic "Bat-tone" guitars going on. Love those twin licks that you have happening throughout. Cool ending to the song....
thanks hacker.... the ending got a little off the hook i think at the end, i had left the wah wide open treble, and the vibe was on, it was just screaming
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batsbrew
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/14 14:02:15
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Rimshot
Great job bat. No issues at all. One nit: The center is pretty full. The R & L sides seem a bit low in volume comparatively until it gets to about 2:30. At lower volume levels it works OK.
Your song and arrangement/playing is superb as always.
i'll have to go back and review this mix, to see what's happening.... seems to me the rhythm guitars were hard panned left and right, so there should be a pretty wide mix... 'typically, i do vox, kick, snare, bass up center, and everything else goes off to the sides to some degree. i do tend to mix rhythms a bit lower at the beginning of songs, and let it build throughout, if the song is long enough for it, likethis one is thanks for the review
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/14 14:09:22
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boy if that intro don't wake you up nothing will!
love this Gonzo! love that guitar tone, love the bluesy feel. really cools stuff in this!
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/14 14:17:37
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Bat blues, love it! Tone to spare.
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/14 15:03:12
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gonzo, I think I've known you for at least ten years now and during that time I have never heard a song by you that wasn't absolutely incredible - including this one. You are an amazing song writer and one of the most entertaining guitar players here - or anywhere - just amazing.
I always try to come up with something I can critique when I listen to your songs - I don't think I've ever come up with a single critique.
I love this.
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/15 03:01:38
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as always your guitars rule...the vox on this works so-so for me...not nearly as well as it worked on the last tune (at least for my ears)...
killer guitar!
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/15 12:38:31
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Beagle
thanks for waking up with me!!
LOL
that sounds weird....
this guitar tone, happened with my custom build strat, a USACG build,
with bill lawrence pickups, it has become my favorite machine for various tones, in combination with a good tube amp.
not my favorite to play, necessarily, but the tones i get with it make me want to change out all the pickups in all my other guitars!
thanks for listening
makeshift
bat blues, yes, warren coined that phrase, it works pretty well!
markus
thanks for the kind words.
i have never written anything yet, that wasn't in need of some serious critique!! LOL,
but at least i'm doing some stuff that is interesting enough to be entertaining,
so thanks all the same!
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/15 12:41:29
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thepogue
i appreciate the review.....
i can understand what you are saying about the vox,
but i try to change the vocal approach on every song i do,
so that it works in a bigger-picture kind of way,
where it sits on the album with the other songs is important....
so, i hit a few, miss a few, i'm ok with that, i understand how that works.
the guitars, damn, it's the easiest part, it almost feels like cheating.
the hard part, is marrying a vocal that is equivalent, and some lyric content that isn't 'baby baby come suk my dik' kinda of stuff!!!
LOL
thanks again....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/16 10:12:49
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yeah! heavy hitter! it's got enough of a drunken blues shuffle with your excellent guitars on top, and I think the vocals fit the vibe perfectly. well done!
-Tom
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/16 18:27:05
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emeraldsoul
yeah! heavy hitter! it's got enough of a drunken blues shuffle with your excellent guitars on top, and I think the vocals fit the vibe perfectly. well done!
-Tom thank you tom..... you know, when the vocals happen, they just kind of are, what they are..... i can write as i sing, and go back and do better performances and stuff... but that vibe thing just sort of becomes itself, if that makes any sense.....
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/18 16:53:26
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Bat, you are like the Cirque du Soleil of guitar players. I don't think anyone else here uses the wah-wah as effectively as you do. Your creativity is always a shining light.
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/18 17:43:08
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thanks lynn..
nice of you to say those things.....
wah is kinda my thing.
i don't use it very often, cuz it's just too easy to abuse...
when i was first learning to play guitar, and Lead guitar in particular,
the wah was my ONLY fx.....
it's hendrix's fault.
and to an only slightly lesser degree,
J Becks and Clapton
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/18 19:07:02
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Love the retro feel! Well done!
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/19 13:46:59
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munmun
Love the retro feel! Well done!
thanks man, glad you dig it
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/23 14:19:49
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"sort of shuffle"? Yeah, and SRV sorta played the blues. Seriously though, this is great hard-rockin', in your face, groove in the pocket song. The guitar tones are simply flat out great IMO, could be right off a major label release.
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/23 18:36:48
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"sort of shuffle"? Yeah, and SRV sorta played the blues.
Seriously though, this is great hard-rockin', in your face, groove in the pocket song. The guitar tones are simply flat out great IMO, could be right off a major label release.
alright steve! reviving a dead thread.......! LOL at least, i thought it was.... so, these guitar tones, are mostly direct from a mesa boogie mark 2b, capture with a palmer PDI-09. there may be ONE actual miced track in the whole bunch.... point being, it was really easy to capture the true tone of the boogie with that device, but it took me a long time to figure out how to tweak the amp, to get the tone i wanted, to go thru the palmer. i may experiment with a Radial JDX as well, and of course, i still have all my mics! thanks for listening
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batsbrew
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Re: "Waiting to Shine"
2014/12/23 18:38:31
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by the way, i made the file downloadable (16 bit wav file) if you hit the right button.
sounds WAY better than the streaming....
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