"Work It Out"

 

https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/work-it-out

mixing this right now for a near future release
(or re-release would be more accurate!)
 

this is the original mix.....
 
any suggestions on tweaks?
i've already brought the drum track up, and have tweaked the snare in the new mix

Phenomenal guitar playing!  I love how all your pieces have such forward momentum.  It's something one only sees in the greatest composers (beethoven, brahms for instance.) This is when music takes you from here to there. Good luck with it!

Excellent production.  Love the guitar work and the vibe.  I guess the one thing that comes to mind is to boost the upper frequencies of the kick a bit.  You can definitely feel the kick with headphones and good full range speakers, but when played on smaller speakers (like my laptop speakers) the kick disappears.  

Cactus Music
As always the playing is over the top! Ya, that snare?? It comes across maybe just a tad to tight, as in tuned up tight, which I actually like most of the time but somehow it's just not sitting there right, not in your face, it's in the back. But I'm just using computer speakers in my office which suck but they do tell the truth to a point cause I listen to them a lot just MP3 stuff. 
 

hey cactus!
the snare is what it is, the drummer chose that drum and head and tuning based on his choice,
so i'll have to work with it......
so,
eq on snare, check!!
compression, check.
possibly some room treatment....

just last night,
i applied the finishing touches to the snare,
compression and eq, as well as level.


i had tried running all the drums thru parallel compression,
and even tho i could hear the effect well,
and dial it in at any level via sends,
it just felt....... clownphucked.


so i got rid of that buss,
all the sends,
and instantly it was better, albeit a bit plain.


i'm still on the fence with just how much room reverb to put on it, 
the original track is bone dry.
it almost sounds better with a delay on it, instead of verb.

jamesg1213
Love it. When I hear your guitar playing the word 'precision' comes to mind. So tightly played, great turnarounds, loads of good stuff packed into just 2 minutes!

hey james,
you know, when i write this stuff, i usually play it 'precise' like you mention...
but then when i'm ready to try to capture a 'performance', meaning, i'm gonna do a take from beginning to end without any punch ins (which i can do extremely well),  i don't worry about precision at all..
more about vibe.
and when you isolate tracks and listen, you can hear slop.
pigs love it.
LOL
 

Freddy J
No nits here!  Great production and Excellent playing!!!

thanks for listening freddy, appreciate it!
 

batsbrew

jamesg1213
Love it. When I hear your guitar playing the word 'precision' comes to mind. So tightly played, great turnarounds, loads of good stuff packed into just 2 minutes!

hey james,
you know, when i write this stuff, i usually play it 'precise' like you mention...
but then when i'm ready to try to capture a 'performance', meaning, i'm gonna do a take from beginning to end without any punch ins (which i can do extremely well),  i don't worry about precision at all..
more about vibe.
and when you isolate tracks and listen, you can hear slop.
pigs love it.
LOL
 

I track my guitars that way too. I'll do dozens of 'run-throughs' to nail the part, then get to a point where I can 'play past' the piece and get some life into it. Then I also like to do the whole part without punch-ins. It's a pride thing  

eph221
 
That's where the genius kicks in..sustaining it through a 20 minute movement.  You should take a swing at it.  Have you written any symphonic stuff? :D:D

 
yes.
i did a project a few years back,
with a band out of british columbia,  called "FALSE HARUSPEX"
 
http://falseharuspex.aeriemonks.com/
 
 
It is a one-hour long continuous instrumental,
broken up into 13 unique sections.
 
it did quite well!
 
took me about 6 months to complete my parts (the solo guitar throughout)
 
after i did my parts, the original group then added crunchy rhythm guitar parts, to augment my stuff,
then added synth and voice on top of everything else once the arrangements were complete.
 
i have many instrumentals that i rarely post,
typically they are in the 5-8 minute range,
instrumentalists typically really get off on them, and no one else does.
 

yea, it's toast