daryl1968
Great production and performances Bats. I also think that the vocal could come up in the mix a tad - but only a gnat's hair.

appreciate the review daryl,
gnat's hair, is pretty fine these days.
heheh

eph221
My manx cat who is usually somnolent and lugubrious jumped up and started meowing the moment you started singing on this track. Tres bizarre! Great guitar playing and as others have mentioned you have a really good rock voice.

it's funny, i have a weird history with manx cats, and odd behavior. they like my armpit smell.
LOL
i mostly get along fine with them, and like them over 'normal' cats.
funny story, eph.......
 

evadianepug
Hey, Rob, is this the same mix that is on the CD? Some great bass licks here, buddy. You are putting guys like me out of business! LOL. I believe I have all of your CDs but I might have missed a couple, who knows? I think I have 4 of them? Anyway, what is happening with the Trouble CD? Is that the first one? I don't know how you would make it better. It is still one of my favorites.

hey warren, yes, this is the official cd release.
i may do some 're-mixes' based on posted review suggestions, to do a 'high def' download release for anyone who cares or wants it.......
i have (3) official cd's, the first one, that was on the label 'Planet Records', is now out of print, the company is defunct...
i'm re-mixing new tracks and old ones, to 're-release' that first album here in the next couple of months.
that is the "TROUBLE" cd i'm re-mixing now.
all live drums, and originally tracked on a Roland VS-1880 DAW, transferred into Sonar (24 bit 44.1khz)
the thing i'm going to make better, is the entire mix.
LOL
now, with sonar, it's so superior to how i had to mix the original, i should be able to bring the drums up quite a bit, give a stronger vocal mix, and i'm adding some new tracks to make it more 'fresh'.
thanks for listening warren, i appreciate it

mgh
killer track, the acoustic guitar tones are amzing, and then you nail the rock guitar of course. the bit from 2'30 on is amazing. some killer double tracked riffs and vocals. and listening on headphones i don't agree with James - vocals sound at a very goodlevel

hey mgh, thanks for listening!
those acoustics have the epi double neck 12 string mixed into them.....
and you're right, i believe, at proper listening levels ( i always mean LOUD when i say this! ), the vocals are right there in the middle of everything, and you can hear them clearly.
i obviously do not take to modern 'vocalist' style mixes, those songs that feature only the vocals i usually just don't dig anyway, but it makes the music almost disposable...
i've always wanted a 'band' element in my tunes, and try to mix the vox as part of it,
instead of sitting on top of it.
but that's just my thing,
if it's obvously wrong, i don't mind being called on it.
it influences my next mixes.
 
 

Wookiee
Nice stuff Bat

alright wookiee!!
keep me in mind if you find another composition you want to collab on.....
you might have to go thru a few before the right one clicks,
but i'd love to do it.

evadianepug
Some great bass licks here, buddy.  
 

 
warrren,
 
typically, i use a Carvin Lb70

this runs into my pedal board, and i use a barber tone press compressor into a fulltone fatboost III, and from there it is run into a Sansamp Bass DI.


the signal is split; 1 goes to a mic preamp with the sansamp tweaked for a classic 'ampeg svt' setting;
the other signal is a direct out unaffected, that goes to my mesa boogie that is miced with a shure ksm44.
i set the boogie up for just a bit of 'grunt', and eq it to just boost the freqs that the sansamp isn't tweaking.
then in the mixer, i blend the two together....
sometimes i shift the 'miced' track in the DAW to line exactly so there are no phase issues.
typically, i don't have to do this.
i don't run the boogie loud enough to engage the room very much,
seems to work quite well.
 

Great vocals and playing.  Nice interesting composition and arrangement. thumbs up!

Hey batsbrew, this is a fantastically great song as always! Killer guitar, killer bass, absolutely killer vocals and a stunning mix. Is there one single damned thing you don't do well? 

kevinwal
Is there one single damned thing you don't do well? 

 
yes.
 
sell albums.
 
LOL

double post

Really nice song and production.  Fabulous guitar tones and performances.  Love the feel.  I understand where James is coming from on the vocal mix.  Actually it is just at the beginning with the Acoustic where the voice seems too low.  To my ears the vocal sounds lower than that acoustic guitar part, where imo it should be louder.  But when the band kicks in, and the rest of the song, the vocal mix seems perfect!

guitartrek
Really nice song and production.  Fabulous guitar tones and performances.  Love the feel.  I understand where James is coming from on the vocal mix.  Actually it is just at the beginning with the Acoustic where the voice seems too low.  To my ears the vocal sounds lower than that acoustic guitar part, where imo it should be louder.  But when the band kicks in, and the rest of the song, the vocal mix seems perfect!

hey guitartrek!
thanks for chiming in on this one.....
 
that beginning, is supposed to be an 'introspective'....
almost like the narrator/singer is talking to himself,
the idea of mixing this lower here, is to draw the listener in to a more intimate moment..
then whap em over the head!!
LOL