“The Payment” – a classic horror story re-told

[batsbrew]

“The Payment” – a classic horror story re-told

a halloween treat for you!

new version: “THE PAYMENT”

this one has new rhythm guitar parts (did em last night) that are done on the clean channel of a driven mesa boogie…
opened up the sound of the mix quite a bit..
but more midrangy…

http://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/payment-ver4

drums are superior 2, played on a maudio keyrig keyboard, into (3) midi tracks…
kick/toms, hats/fills, cymbal work.

story:
it’s a little ditty about 2 brothers and a lycanthrope…….

it’s loosely based on the original wolfman movie, the one where larry talbot gets bitten by the werewolf, and he see’s the pentagram in his hand, and he knows he’s fucked, so he goes

to the old gypsy woman to try to be cured, and she basically tells him the only thing for him to do, is to kill himself…… what a bum deal…

anyway, these 2 brothers have been partying all night, drunk as skunks, and one of them staggers out into the moor, and meets his maker.

the remaining brother wants revenge, but is sober enough to figure out that he’d better get some kind of ammunition…
so he goes to see the gypsy-witch, to get some aconite (wolfsbane) and a spell here, and a prayer there, and thinks that he’s well prepared, and so he goes out to the moor to get his revenge.

but that’s not what he gets……

“The Payment”
Written by Robert F. Gilliland
c1999 Robert F. Gilliland

Nightime, on the moor
drank up all the mead
mist is in the air
full moon, did the deed.

never saw the evil…
that poor ole son of a bitch
felt the claws that gripped his throat
yeah, he was dead without a twitch.

“it’s your brother down on the moor,
with his head down at his feet!”

drink the aconite, tonight
toast the witches curse
pray to whoever you believe in
to pass over you the worst

it’s your brother on the moor,
with his head down at his feet
and the debt has not been paid in full
will you, your maker, meet?

run into the moor
and see the evil eye
upon you, cast a glance,
and the payment, it is nigh.

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[batsbrew]

[batsbrew]

this is an older tune i did some years back…
and dumped the original tracks into sonar, to re-work it.

but this year, i stripped the old drum track off…

and literally played this one, using a maudio keyrig keyboard, in real time…
i used 3 midi tracks…
one for kick/toms, one for hi hats and tom fills, and one for cymbal work.

so 3 performances, stacked on top of each other, to get the entire drum track done.

LAST NIGHT…..

i had an opportunity to do some fresh guitar tracking.

so i DITCHED the (2) heavy rhythm guitar parts, left and right..
they’re gone. toast.

and RE-RECORDED the rhythm guitar part, using a single track, and using a very cleaned up lead channel on the boogie.

i was going for a cleaner chimey grindy part, and it came out very nice.

i just haven’t had time to mix it yet…
i’ll try to do that tonight, and post it tomorrow.

it COMPLETELY CHANGED the feel of the thing…..

it let the tom work ring out much better, brought out more AIR in the mix, and made everything so much clearer.

in fact, it has made me re-think my rhythm guitar tone entirely.

[batsbrew]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

new version: “THE PAYMENT”

this one has new rhythm guitar parts (did em last night) that are done on the clean channel of a driven mesa boogie…
opened up the sound of the mix quite a bit..
but more midrangy…

http://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/payment-ver4

[batsbrew]

no trick or treaters here?

bummer

[theboyfromsarasota]

Liking it. Did you do something on the new track to stereo separate the guitar? The original recording sounds a little bigger (guitar wise) but the new one still sounds nice and wide. You are right, it clears up some space for the drums and vocals…the new mix is better.

Chuck

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[batsbrew]

hello in sarasota!
heheh

used to play in sarasota, years back….
i grew up in jax.

anyways, thanks for checking it out!

this is the first time i played drums using a keyboard……
just layering it up, a couple of pieces at a time..
so i was curious to see how it came across to others using this method.
normally, i drag and drop, then edit in piano view, in sonar..

then, i re-use my edited clips here and there, and continue to edit so i don’t replicate the same clip too many times, because people can recognize memorable drum riffs…

the guitars:

i record mono tracks, and the only way i typically use them, is simply panned left and right.
sometimes, i’ll add a short delay of a few milliseconds, and throw the dry track left, the delayed track right, and get a ‘stereo’ spread that way, just to fatten a track…
but on this one, i just panned them. i didn’t hard pan them, i think they’re at about 75% left and right, so there is some bleed…

thanks chuck!

[bridger]

This is a very good track. I like everything about it. Mix sounds good.

[batsbrew]

thanks bridger!

it was a fun track to do, since all this werewolf imagery was VERY easy to tap into.

i tried to play the rhythm guitar parts as if a werewolf were scratching them out!
LOL

same with the vox, it’s supposed to be all angst.

the dude is so phucked, and he knows it!

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