6 years of nonstop professional gigging - wow! That's quite impressive. So you perform all the instruments AND play your own drums on these Bat's Brew records? Curious to know how you're recording your guitars. Are you using real gear or DI VST plugins? Do you use multiple mic placements for each take? How much bass do you usually EQ out to achieve those clean sounds without mud? I read about Bats Brew on Robbie Goble's article on The Musicopolis. Really great stuff. He was actually planning on writing an article on my full-length cover of Pink Floyd "Animals", but 2 years later, still nothing.
hey stevie!
it was a lot of gigging, yes.
too much!
LOL
i do not play drums, wished i could...
i program drums from scratch using superior drummer 3.
i do everything else.
on the TROUBLE album, i had a guest drummer play all songs. he's a killer drummer. just killer.
recording guitars:
everything is done old school.
guitars ino a 1982 mesa boogie mark IIb head, into various cabs with various speakers, favorite setup is the avatar cab with early 80's greenbacks.
sm57 mic, or sometimes a large condenser shure KSM44 close miced.
bass into a sansamp bass di, split into a A Designs Audio MP-1 tube mic pre, and direct out of the sansamp.
i only record in mono, so only ever use a single mic for guitars, and mult the two bass tracks to one mono track.
the key to good bass parts, is to get it to sound right going in.
do as little eq'ing as possible at first.
then, once everything is tracked, and final mixing is going, i simply carve out freqs that build up, and try not too boost too much, so it all stays fairly clean.
it's easier to do this on a song like World Goin down, because all the rhythm is acoustic guitar,
which is pretty light frequency wise. acoustics get high passed at 150hz, so it's clean below that.
robert goble wrote an excellent review of the "Trouble" album,
if you want to check it out, it's here:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/batsbrew12