https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/the-time-is-magic
 
all comments/suggestions are welcome 

Gool! Great instrumental rock.  Nice melody lines and groove.
Enjoyable guitar music

Very nice. I listened to the other tracks on CDBaby and gotta say the album is Prime Time quality.

Makke
Gool! Great instrumental rock.  Nice melody lines and groove.
Enjoyable guitar music

hey makke,
thanks for listening, glad you dig it
 
it DOES have a vocal line in it,
so technically, it's not an instrumental!
 

Awesome!  Very much in that Jeff Beck Blow-by-Blow/Wired vein, which I can think of no higher praise in guitarland. 

drums sound...well rubbish tbh. like a halfway house between acoustic and electronic.
 
everything else is of course superb. you get such a good tone on the guitars.

bjornpdx
Very nice. I listened to the other tracks on CDBaby and gotta say the album is Prime Time quality.

thanks for saying that, bjornpdx, appreciate it!~!
 
i've got two albums on cdbaby right now,
and i'm working on a re-issue of my 1st album now, that will go up for digital release in the fall.
 

cwestmont
Awesome!  Very much in that Jeff Beck Blow-by-Blow/Wired vein, which I can think of no higher praise in guitarland. 

wow, dropping jbeck's name....
he was one of my main influences, early on, so that insight is spot on.
 
tho, with this one in particular,
i was just trying to get jiggy with it.

mgh
drums sound...well rubbish tbh. like a halfway house between acoustic and electronic.
 
everything else is of course superb. you get such a good tone on the guitars.

heheh, rubbish, 
i'll take that.

 
of course, the sound was chosen on purpose...
lo fi, kinda street beat, exactly as you describe..
because the song that follows it, has big meaty drums, so as an album opener, it sorta brings the listener in a bit, they don't get to adjust before the 1st 'real' song comes on, and does the b!tch slap!
LOL
 
 
these guitars on THIS particular song, were different than all the rest..
 
i had in house at the time, a small Peavey joe Satriani 5w tube amp, called the Mini Colossal, which i know he used to record a bunch of tracks on an album of his....
 
it had a direct box/cab filter built into it, with a XLR out....
i used THAT to capture these guitar tones....
and found i really did dig it.
 
 
amp used: peavey jsx mini colossal, run direct out:

 
guitar used: vintage white usacg strat with BL pickups:

Nice toe tapping groove that made the process of installing all 17 updates to my Arturia V5 collection and Spark 2 a great deal easier, thank you Bat