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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 13:59:46
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 14:08:45
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no, it's all mono!!
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 14:53:44
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Excellent composition, and the playing is phenomenal as always. Dug the STP-like chords at the end. You have a good voice. For the life of me I don't know why you tend to bury it in the mix so much. I know you're going for that great guitar sound, which you do capture, but I'd really like to hear your voice up front like a more modern track.
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batsbrew
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 15:13:03
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Excellent composition, and the playing is phenomenal as always. Dug the STP-like chords at the end.
You have a good voice. For the life of me I don't know why you tend to bury it in the mix so much. I know you're going for that great guitar sound, which you do capture, but I'd really like to hear your voice up front like a more modern track.
thanks for the review, james... you know, when I was mixing this, i heard my voice exactly where i like it... i don't think it's buried at all, to me, it feels like it's perfectly in the middle of this big sound, and the louder it gets, the better it gets..... but that said, so many have said similar things about the vocal level mixes i've done, in general... and i'm mixing a new updated version of my 1st album (out of print) to release in the next couple of months, and i'm making an effort to feature the vocal performances above all else... that, and the live drums i've got on these cuts, so maybe these will be more to your liking. i've got a new interface now (rme babyface pro) and the better convertors are translating in much clearer playback, and i'm hearing things much clearer, or flatter, or more detailed than before, so this is changing my approach a bit as well.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 17:21:40
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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.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/16 20:18:13
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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.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/17 10:28:17
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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.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/17 17:32:34
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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
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/18 14:26:19
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Nice stuff Bat 
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/21 11:59:55
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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.......
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/21 12:00:09
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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
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/21 12:04:09
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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.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/23 10:24:55
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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.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/23 11:34:33
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Great vocals and playing. Nice interesting composition and arrangement. thumbs up!
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/23 12:39:51
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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?
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/23 13:22:48
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Is there one single damned thing you don't do well?
yes. sell albums. LOL
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/23 13:22:52
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double post
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/24 21:20:27
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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!
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/09/26 14:16:38
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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
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/04 15:39:56
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Wow.... I liked that. The acoustic section was really nice, great vibe. Though yeah, the vocals seem just a bit low in context. When everything kicked in it was sort of like Van Halen storming into the room and taking over.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/06 10:01:37
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Great vocals and playing. Nice interesting composition and arrangement. thumbs up!
HEY MAKKE, I missed you post, sorry about that, thanks for listening to this one....
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/06 10:02:40
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Wow.... I liked that. The acoustic section was really nice, great vibe. Though yeah, the vocals seem just a bit low in context. When everything kicked in it was sort of like Van Halen storming into the room and taking over.
hey stevec!! yes, the vocals sitting down even with the acoustics at the beginning was a choice, to try to pull the listener into a more 'intimate' moment, before unleashing the hounds. LOL
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/29 04:01:31
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Listening to this excellent tune of yours again Rob batsbrew
sell albums.
I know you've probably considered all the options but what about Bandcamp? I reckon if you also uploaded your albums there you may sell at least one more of each (to me). I know I bought "The time is Magic" from CDbaby, it's just that my "go-to" seller of stuff is Bandcamp. And then there are places like Google Play, iTunes, all that stuff... Or does CDBaby have some sort of exclusive rights to stuff you upload with them? cheers andy
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/29 09:16:09
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The feel of your tune is excellent, as is the performances, and the mix for that matter. I got a really nice Led Zepplin rush from those acoustic guitars! Well done.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/29 12:49:32
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Love the way this one broke loose around 1:00 and just kept going. Superb guitar work and production as usual, with the sole exception of (and you've heard this one from me before) vocal level. You sing great... be heard loud and clear, Rob.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/10/30 02:41:05
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Late to the party as always, but just wanted to say that this one maintains every bit of your high standards for playing, arranging and producing. Nothing I could tell you that would make this track better. Great work. Do you perform your music with a band, and do you take it on the road?
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/11/01 10:50:58
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synkrotron
Listening to this excellent tune of yours again Rob
batsbrew
sell albums.
I know you've probably considered all the options but what about Bandcamp?
I reckon if you also uploaded your albums there you may sell at least one more of each (to me).
I know I bought "The time is Magic" from CDbaby, it's just that my "go-to" seller of stuff is Bandcamp.
And then there are places like Google Play, iTunes, all that stuff...
Or does CDBaby have some sort of exclusive rights to stuff you upload with them?
cheers
andy
well, i route everything starting with cdbaby... they have the best options for digital downloads, the highest bit rate, but bandcamp? i suppose having another outlet would be fine, as long as they didn't take a cut. LOL i'm already on iTunes, amazon, the list is long: Apple iTunes---Spotify---Rhapsody---Google Music Store---YouTube Music---eMusic MediaNet MixRadio Inprodicon Tradebit GreatIndieMusic Groove 7digital Deezer 24-7 Omnifone Rdio Slacker Radio Shazam JB Hi-Fi Yandex Beyond Oblivion Tidal Akazoo 8tracks Synchtank SoundExchange there are no exclusive rights with cdbaby, it's wide open pretty much.
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/11/01 10:52:02
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The feel of your tune is excellent, as is the performances, and the mix for that matter. I got a really nice Led Zepplin rush from those acoustic guitars! Well done.
-Tom
that's nice of you to say, emerald, zep would definitely be one of my strongest influences, for sure...
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Re: "Some Time"
2016/11/01 10:53:48
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philz
Love the way this one broke loose around 1:00 and just kept going. Superb guitar work and production as usual, with the sole exception of (and you've heard this one from me before) vocal level. You sing great... be heard loud and clear, Rob.
hey philz! vocal levels, will always be a subjective decision, i feel like if i can hear them clearly, then they are loud enough. this aint adele music. LOL plus, the vocal mix is in keeping with the idea of creating a modern version of classic rock, and not a top 40 mix where it's all about the vocal, and the music is just background.... i'm pretty good at finding a balance I like, but maybe i just hear too much?
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