"Work It Out"
https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/work-it-out
can't remember if i posted this one before or not..
feel free to comment or ask questions.
or ignore.
LOL

That was killer as usual, and always a great big sound. Nice!! Also listened to Interstate Sun 2, just blown away as always. Great work as I always hear in your guitar playing. Got to love it for sure.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Great guitar playing and superb tone!!!! The mix sounds wide, Big and balanced!!
 
Would you reveal the mixing techniques and decisions on the guitars? hehe
 
Thanks for sharing!!
 
Pedro,

As usual, brilliant work.  I think you have enough material for a greatest hits album.

I like the slow intro build-up ;-)  Great work and mix. Plenty of room in the center for vox even w/ a million guitars.
 
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That is some sick playing.  Sounds like you are really having some fun.  Great vibe!

guitarplayer
thanks man, and also thanks for checking out the highway star cover.
that was a fun collab with xenophile, for sure.

the drums are, of course, live drums, with the music overdubbed on top of the drum tracks.
the original demo served as the 'guide track' for the drummer to lay his tracks down, then i re-recorded everything else to match the energy of the drum tracks.
i used a single 1x12 closed back cab with a celestion greenback, and a 57 on the cone, and that was it, for each guitar track.
maybe proximity effect on the guitar tracks helps it sound 'big', that and some reverb i put on the drums.

pttaxavy
thanks for listening, pedro...
 
wide mix.... just really simple mix, really......
one close mic on the guitars (shure sm57), one rhythm part, played twice, hard panned left and right..
mono bass up the center..
snare and bass panned up center...
one solo guitar up the center, with a stereo delay on it in the mixdown....
overheads panned hard left and right on the drums....
tamborine and shakers panned left and right, about halfway out each.
for the lead vox, i sang it twice, just like i did with the rhythm guitars, and then did two part harmony on top of that, with the backups panned a bit left and right, and the two lead vox tracks straight up, one lower than the other.
the one keyboard line, and that's it. i think it was a casio keyboard straight into the recording deck.

so, with guitars, it's very straight forward.....
there are only two tracks of guitar, then the solo....

but to play the rhythm tracks tight enough, so that they blend together, that was key.
i close miced, but i had the guitar cab on a padded chair off the ground, which let the cabinet have it's own voice, instead of picking up the room floor sound so much....
i ran that signal into a tube preamp, with vu hitting 0db, so not very hot.....
a little compression on the way into the Deck, and almost no eq.
in other words, a very simple and honest capture.
 
guitar rig was really loud. 60 watt mesa boogie mark 2b head into a closed back roland cab with a celestion greenback, the amp was pushed with a Boss DS-1 pedal on the solos.
really loud.
LOL

what can I say, great song, and I knew this already before I hit play. sounds like Nuno Bettencourt on guitar and the guy from Janes Addiction on vox! Awesome guitar effect sound on the bridge (at 1:23)!

Batsbrew
 

Thanks for sharing the great and simple recipe on your mix.... and you´re totally right about keeping it simple!!!  These days we tend to have every plugin possible in our daw´s, but a lot of times i find myself spending to much time on those plugins on the mixing phase witch can be counter productive. Thanks for making me reach this epiphany!!! From now on i´ll try to dedicate 80% of the time in getting a great guitar tone before recording and the other 20% for simple mixing decisions like panning, compression, and eq. , Because in reality theses can go a long way!!
 
Thanks,
 
Pedro,