https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/first-tracks-from-the-new-bats-brew-album-stay
 
 
this is a song i posted a couple of times in the past, as i was working on the demo...
this is the opening cut on the album.
this particular version has never been posted before...
njoy!

Brilliant  stuff Bats. Have to give you full credit for doing all this yourself, and putting such care and attention into the writing, arranging and performances of all these tracks. Quite some work you did here (that's English understatement..).Great track.
 
You may have been asked before, but how do you track/program your drums? Apologies if they're played live, I often can't tell these days.

jamesg1213
Brilliant  stuff Bats. Have to give you full credit for doing all this yourself, and putting such care and attention into the writing, arranging and performances of all these tracks. Quite some work you did here (that's English understatement..).Great track.
 
You may have been asked before, but how do you track/program your drums? Apologies if they're played live, I often can't tell these days.

thanks james! for listening and commenting...
 
drums:
 
i use live drums, drums i program using Superior Drummer, and drums i write using Sony Acid.
 
this particular track, is the Sony Acid.
 
the only problem with Acid, is i end up getting only a 16 bit stereo file at the end of it,
and i'd like a chance to actually MIX the drums after i get thru tracking,
in this case, i have to "MIX" the drums by themselves, and hope i get it right!
LOL
 
most of the other drum tracks on the new album are Superior Drummer.
i take the closest loops of grooves and fills, and edit almost every one.
i build custom kits, and re-tune lots of them. easy to do with superior.
 
i NEED to get off my @SS, and build my ultimate kit, using X-Drums.
my next task.
i've kinda been holding off of diving into it, 
because i need to update ALL my software,
and i have not updated my PC and O/S yet...
 

Very good. I wish I could BE in a band that would play songs like this. It would BE fun.

Good stuff!  Excellent production, Bat. 

Hey, I got it, (but not IF it feels offensive) we could call Batsbrew Batsy, as in Batman. Although, Joker, who invented the name was quite a strange fellow, he still had good taste in names. Or has he already been called that? I tried to check it from the internet, but found no reference of that.

kakku
Very good. I wish I could BE in a band that would play songs like this. It would BE fun.

heheh, i wished I could be in a band that plays this stuff!!
 
but, i'd have to do a clone trooper on myself.....

michaelhanson
Good stuff!  Excellent production, Bat. 

thank you mike!!

Nice changes on this. I like how you were doing some nice shredding in the beginning, and then progressed to a more bluesy wah solo in the middle. Stellar work as usual Bats. Mix sounded nice.

Leadfoot
Nice changes on this. I like how you were doing some nice shredding in the beginning, and then progressed to a more bluesy wah solo in the middle. Stellar work as usual Bats. Mix sounded nice.

leadfoot,
yea, there are some fleet of foot stuff at the beginning section,
originally i thought that's the way the whole thing would go.
 
this song actually came from a live jam i did, 
and the main electric rhythm in the beginning is the same track,
and the solo section it morphs into, was a jam section, i re-recorded, but the bass track, and of course, the drums, are the same as the very first time i played it.
 
in fact,  that's where the name of the song came from..... 
it was the very first song i recorded with my newly refurbished USACG custom super strat i had re-built after a flood damaged the finish on the original body...
 
this guitar, and the speakers and mic setup, is what i used to track it: