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"Speak to Me"
"Speak to Me" https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/speak-to-me spacey, groovy, aggressive... built around some pretty cool loops.... 3 part harmonies, jamming solo guitar sections... loops done in Nuendo, output to Sonar, guitars, vox and mix done in Sonar; mastered in Wavelab, Waves plugins
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batsbrew
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/16 15:29:30
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guitars captured direct via palmer pdi-09;
guitars= '77 Ibanez Artist & custom USACG Strat >>mesa boogie mark2B >>Avatar 1x12 w/Celestion G12C
vox = ADK Hamburg >>A Designs Audio MP-1 >>DBX MC-6 >>convertor
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/16 15:55:26
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spacey, groovy, aggressive, progressive, impressive and very tasty too...
Very cool arrangement/production...
I am hearing something weird with the vox at 2:20...
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/16 16:07:01
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notnat!
good ear!
hehehe
yep, that one line, at that point in the lyric, has a doppler/phase effect on it, in the headphones, it kind of swims around your head if you are 'really' listening, and if you are just a little bit 'high', will make you feel funny....
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/16 16:14:32
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solo on the Ibby Artist 
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/16 16:27:56
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Nice capture on the instrumentation and some cool loops. Sounds awesome and some cool lyrics. Great job on this one as well as all others you do. Great mix as usual. Very Nice!! Has a Hendrix vibe to it, kinda!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/17 12:18:16
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batsbrew
solo on the Ibby Artist
Love the "Artist", I had one years ago, but traded it for a '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp (blackface)... sold the amp at a Nashville Guitar Show for over 3 grand... I wonder what the Artist's are going for now?
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/17 13:57:24
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Anything particular I should say?  
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/17 17:37:23
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Pretty cool. All the way around, vocals, guitars, bass, the mix, impressive.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/19 10:35:11
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the guitarplayer
thanks john, for listening and commenting.
hendrix, yep, he'll always be an influence, i cut my teeth on the wah pedal, trying to cop his licks.
notnat
that artist, is a 2618, but i had a '79 2619 that i bought new in 1980, and i regret having ever sold it.
deluxe blackface, was probably worth more than the ibby was new; i paid $450 with a case, for my original ibby...
but they've become collectable as it were, through the years, they became praised as 'les paul killers' and of course, i was sold from the beginning.
i found this one undermarked at guitar center..
they had to honor the asking price, i think they were about $400 shy of a reasonable asking price,
there's one just like mine going on ebay right now, starting bid at $1250.
depending on the year and condition, i've seen the 2618 go as high as $1500.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/19 12:31:08
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Nice song and tones. The loops sounded really nice and gave the song a spacy feel.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/19 12:40:19
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Nice stuff. Very "Alice in Chain'esqe". I like it!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/19 13:08:20
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WOOKIE
heheh, if i were you, i'd say, "i wanna be free"
LOL
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/20 10:29:30
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theband19
appreciate the comments, thanks!
chandler
thanks man, yeah, i like the loops on this one.
not my normal mode of operation, for sure...
but with all the different instrumentation going on in the loop part, i did not have to add much guitar to it.
guitarpima
alice, yes, i dig alice in chains, even with the new singer..
but layne would have been an influence,
at least in his approach.
glad you dig it
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batsbrew
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/23 10:27:07
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/23 15:02:47
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Don't know how to describe my reaction to it.
I just closed my eyes and listened and it just kept coming at me.
It seems really powerful and complete with a great little reward at the end.
best regards,
mike
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AT
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/25 23:54:15
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Nice, driven song. Funky, well mixed and nice guitars as always. They really flow together. Almost breaks out to pyscheldelia, but never quite loses it.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/26 15:52:38
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mike
i think you described your reaction pretty well!
LOL
it was conceptualized pretty much just as you describe it....
and the loops, are just hypnotic enough, to give it that 'round robin' kind of vibe....
appeciate the comments
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/26 16:53:33
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Great song - great guitar sound - thoroughly enjoyable
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/27 12:45:50
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AT
glad you checked this one out,
break out to psychedelia, that'd be cool..
i wonder what/how i would have had to change it, to make it go there?
i mean, i listen to psychedelia too, i guess maybe repeating vocal lines.... that overlap, like round-your-boat style.......?
i think i want to explore that direction with my next stab at using loops...
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/27 14:49:52
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Bat, it is there, man. It is just that the funk and drive of the song is sooo good you'd have to make very obvious. I'd start w/ vocal stuff. The song has some space left but I don't know how uberdelays on the instruments would work. Repeating the vocal lines w/ different spacy effects sounds like a good place to start. I know Paul Leary (of the Butthole's fame) took a pretty generic rock song that my wife's band did and during mixing he add'ed a reverb whoosh to her vox toward the end that made a real kicker. But that was a much plainer song. On PJ Harvey's "this is love" I posted a while back I had another singer come in to do backing vox. UUhs and whatnot. She ended up layering about 6 tracks doing different things. The real kicker was her doing Uh Uh Uh kinda backbeat against the plain chorus. It was funny - she was bouncing in time while recording but it worked and she didn't get the feet through the mic syndrome. I slapped a breverb preset on it - a slow backwards build up that worked perfectly. Suddenly a fairly driving guitar oriented song exploded at the end w/ that separate vocal line(s) while everything else continued to rock away. I had to cut down the guitars vol wise to make room, but done right it is nice fit. The hardest thing was not losing the main vocal. Just some ideas. I think the main thing is to build up to the psychodelia, rather start out there. Nothing wrong w/ it, but the song is great already. Don't lose that. some of those siren sounds in "Interstate" might work, too. But again it has to be done tastefully so it blends in with what you got already. Have fun! @
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/27 17:43:25
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Yea dude, your stuff is always good.
Always look forward to hearing new material.
You definitely nailed the "spacey, groovey"aspect. Maybe even a new genre, ha!
I hear A LOT of influences swirling around in this tune.
Great playing and production as usual!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/27 18:47:25
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Nice Jane's Addiction vibe!!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/27 19:43:46
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We were at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon having coffee in a shop. A song came on and I told my wife, "That's Rob from Batsbrew". Well it was Jane's Addiction. This song was VERY nicely done. I hear a bit of The Shaman Song in it. I'll never give up on getting that tune. LOL Rob, I can't critique anything you ever do. It's so right there that I can't imagine the thing that would make it better. Different, maybe, but not better. You are truly a gifted guy!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/28 14:07:31
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champchas
thanks man, i appreciate your comments
that guitar sound, is basically a ibanez artist into a mesa boogie, cranked fairly loud but not club level, with a drive pedal and a noise gate, thru a mic pre, that had a very aggressive compression setting on an outboard compressor, that makes the recorded tone very flat and smooth, and easy to mix.
also, i dropped my pick, so that last solo is with my bare fingers, a lot of fingernail edge, it gives it a unique bite that i can't really get out of a pick.
necessity is the mother of invention.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/28 20:15:46
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What can I say - your music is always the best on any forum - this is no exception - absolutely love this tune.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/30 12:26:13
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AT
i think i just need to do some more drugs.
heheh
MetalTek
glad you dig this one.....
it's spacy, yea, but still has that edge of aggression and movement...
sometimes i dig listening to navel gaze stuff, but i rarely tap into that kind of thing on my own compositions...
just never comes out that way.
Twisted6s
yeah! go JA
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/08/31 14:04:04
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Revolution in Electric Ladyland at its best. If you'd have been born 30 years earlier you'd be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame by now. You're in my hall of fame.
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/09/04 17:04:24
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You consistently churn out some quality stuff, and this is no different. KUDOS!
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Re: "Speak to Me"
2013/09/04 17:26:08
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This takes me back to the psychedelic sixties.
Sounds like you've got a proper band there
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