A Halloween song, 'the payment'- something for you to sharpen your claws to...

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Bat's Brew - N o W h e r e R a d i o . c o m
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Bat's Brew - N o W h e r e R a d i o . c o m

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a new mix of this song-recorded a few years back.
with a new DAW is in the house, i thought i'd revisit this one.
i did some cool experimenting with the mix on this one, and i wanted to share it.


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 ammunition first...
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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added song in post, in case anyone is scared of Nowhere radio.

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the original recording session for 'the payment', included the good ole mesa boogie mark2b:


and a Barber Direct Drive SS, and original MXR Dynacomp on various guitar parts.


the guitars were all played at volume, and miced with a AT4033 off axis, and at an angle to the speaker.
the cab was tilted off the floor, to de-couple the cab from the room. i was getting standing waves with it on the floor:



the bass was done direct, via a SANSAMP bass di, using a Ibanez SRX500 in active mode:



there were (2) guitars used, a Williams Special (the sunburst one, it's a combo of les paul/strat/explorer/brian may red special design), and a Carvin DC200k.




the mic ran into a A Designs Audio MP-1 mic pre, out and into a DBX compressor, and into a ART DPS for digital conversion, into a Roland VS-1880 to capture the tracks.




on this mix, i captured WAV files out of the 1880, and put them into sonar to mix.

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now, updated with more CLAWS

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ok, now with less claws.

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ok, i put the claws back in, and took out a bit of teeth.

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alright, went back to the original mix.

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ok, i give up.