The Return of Spring, Session 3

It has been an extremely busy few weeks. I let lots of things get away from me. But, I still found about three hours of free time to work on this project.

The next step is, of course, recording acoustic guitars. I took time over the past week to listen to the tracks and map out a strategy for how I'm going to record the guitars. On a song like "Focus," for example, I'm going to have a hard panned L/R guitar sound that involves two different, complementary parts. On a song like "Water & Wine," I want to have one, big stereo acoustic guitar for the strummy parts. So, rather than just jump into the recording, I like to map out things a bit...this saves time in the long run.

I also recorded a mellotron part on "Falling in Love Too Fast" in the bridge. I know I want that there, so I went ahead and tracked it.

So, if we have a mile to go with these songs, I've moved a foot this week. Still, it's a step forward.