The Time is Magic

great playing. I love those...uhm.. like 2nd order vibration-tones (high, screamy). 

I actually have no nits this time :D  great!

Nice playing.

Doesn't need any lyrics as far as I'm concerned.

Ron

funky shuffle sir. yes the lead could be a little more upfront. only other thing was a little high-pitch flubby noise which appears occasionally, not sure if it is acoustic plec-attack or a funky-drum sound thing. whatever, it was annoying!

anyhow, cool playing, natch, maybe needs a bigger hook and finishes quite too soon!

chrome-
thanks man.
you mean the high bends, that i use the pick edge to initiate?
billy gibbons used to call that 'cheese'.
heheh
pretty good word for it...



savageopera
great man, glad you dig it!
that bass line, is a great fun line...
i was thinking old stevie wonder (like sir duke)
the lyric, is in there, but you gotta listen for it. it's down deep, deep, deep in the pain.



rolifer
heh, don't need no stinkin' lyrics. cool.
thanks for listening.


james
yeah, it's kinda just there, isn't it?
i don't know, i DID bring it up, and then it annoyed me. the freq's were too strident.
i tried eq'ing them, and that took the teeth out of it.
so i tried to set it in there, just like it is, where i think, for an instrumental, it draws the listener in more, and the lead becomes more like a melody instrument, instead of "LEAD"...... i just like it better that way, more like mixing a jazz band or something.



mgh
thanks for listening.
yes, the lead, see the reply above to james.
it's not really supposed to stick out like a sore thumb, it's part of a complete band interplay.
there's stuff that's going on with the rhythm guitars, that were designed to work WITH the lead, and if the lead were much louder, it would obscure all that other work.
a fine balance, for sure.
there's all kinds of funky noises, ambient junk going on throughout the song...
lots of little noise samples, it had exactly the kind of result on you i think i was after.
maybe not annoying......!
LOL
but something.....


tap
glad you're funkin' out man.

totally enjoyable..... nice playing.... love the groove....

Another great mix - you're just showing off now aren't you ? ;)

I liked  the way the bass sounds in particular - sits perfectly to my ears.  It doesn't necessarily need vox, but all the same I'd love to hear it with some, other than the obscured ones you have in there.

Great guitar playing and groove!

Is that a MarkIII? I worked at MESA/Boogie when they

were making those...nice amps.

Although I'm sure anything would sound great in your hands.

Legion
thanks man....
70's gangster movie, i like that!!
LOL

it IS a little bit influenced from the fusion genre...
i think you got it dialed in... funk (stevie wonder influence) rock (i guess a little Cosmosquad) Blues (a touch of SRV), but there's definitley a little brad paisley influence in there as well.  and Brand X. probably Brand X would be at the top of the list.


guitarhacker-
glad you dig it.
yep, that drum groove is really easy to lock in on...
just don't pay attention to the strange voices.
LOL


stevenMikel
thanks man, thanks for listening.


paulo
ha, no man, aint showin off...... still got WAY too much to learn still.
this little ditty... and that's what it is, one of those little snippets i put together in one afternoon....
COULD be developed into a full blown song, but i like having the snippets too.
i have an instrumental album coming out, and this will be on it. it will have to break up some pretty weird stuff, so it will be fun having a short 2-1/2 minute piece to thow in there.


rockinrobby
yep, thinking a bit of 'sir duke' on this one. you totally picked up on that.
i mean, crap, who ever had more funky bass lines than stevie?
well, except maybe parliament, or larry graham, or brothers johnson, or prince, or....oh, never mind.
you got it.
weekend rom in marseilles on a yacht?

how about a weekend floating on a houseboat with a beer, in lake powell?
LOL


geeare1
thanks GR

it's a '81 Mark 2B. 60 watts, graphic EQ, no reverb.
quite a bit different sounding than a mark III, they all sound good to me.
on this song, i set it up on the clean channel, and then drove the piss out of the amp (with an attenuator) and got a nice crunchy power amp saturation.



scottytunes
thanks jammer man....
like the answer above, the key to that sound, is driving the power section of the amp.
i mean, granted, you can get a nice sound from the preamp alone, the boogie WAS designed to do that...

but i rather like cleaning up the preamp side, and pushing the output tubes harder.
it's a different 'feeling' more so than a sound....
it's more chewy.
more organic.

it's harder to play.
it becomes extremely touch sensitive, which means if you fluff notes, it will REALLY tell on you!
LOL
so i have to concentrate more..

thanks for listening!

Very Cool Bat!! I love funky/bluesy/rocking/jazzy/soulful fusion and this was it!! Stevie Wonder meets Stevie Ray Vaughn (on steroids)!!  

Wow! I have to get me one of those at ten u ate hers.

 
Wow - now that's what I call some tasty guitar playing Bats
 
Top notch mix and that lead tone is spot on.
 
Only crit - it's way too short!
 
 
Steve

STEVE
Thanks man, glad you dig it.
yeah, it's short..
it's just a little fun snippet, to break up some longer instrumentals it will sit between, on an all-instrumental release i'm working on.



no how
appreciate the listen!
yep, that click, is just ambient noise on the rhythm track.
folks that casually listen, or listen on 'lesser' systems, think it's digital clipping!
LOL
you're not alone.....
and i guess, if i COULD (i can't) i'd take that out of the drum track, but it's committed, now, i don't have access to the original rhythm track, it's output as a 16 bit wav now, so there it is.
i hear it clearly on my monitors...
but i really didn't know, when i mixed it down, how it'd translate on different systems...
i use AKG 240's for mixing headphones, i guess they're fairly accurate, and i should probalby get some cheap cans, to check mixes on.
not a bad idea.

You know this was my first experience with Batsbrew.  If I haven't listened to this song 2-300 times, I'd be surprised.  Still as great as the first time I heard it!!

Absoflippinlutely terrific number all the way around.  You really hit upon a wonderful funky, rhythmic groove.  Oh ya, absoflippinlutely (yup this rates 2 absoflippinlutelys) great guitar playing.
Excellent.
 
Freddy J

thanks freddy j
glad you're diggin it


warren
i thought i sent that to you, just couldn't remember.
i do them different, every time i burn a set

magic.
hey, the time is magic.

that'd make a good album title.
wtf