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We've finally got a new version of The Good Guys worked up, to be recorded, starting tomorrow. My opinion: It rocks. Much more dynamic than it has been, with some nice augmented 5ths and other wicked sounding bits. The bridge melody is the same, but chords have changed, adding a C chord, with the song in the key of Bm, adding some nice tension.

Honestly, this is the closest we've come to arranging an existing song as a band before. Huge improvement on the song. It's great working through these changes and coming up with what might become one of our best recordings to date. If we get a good take, I hope to have a rough mix of this thing up within the next two weeks. Pretty sure I've been promising that for months, but setbacks have occurred. My sincerest of apologies to those checking in here regularly, awaiting new recordings. We hope your wait proves worthwhile.

After adding the new PreSonus FP10, the system became very unstable. I'm in dialog with a support guy from Presonus, who had me strip down the Vista 64 OS and kill all of the unnecessary processes, via a .BAT file. I think I still have some issues with the audio engine freezing.

I also rewired the monitoring portion of the studio, which was frankly really screwed up with a gain stage impedance issue last week. I think I've fixed it, and we should all have a reasonable headphone mix tomorrow. We'll know more in 24 hours.

Guitar-wise, I'm using the Parker Fly Deluxe, switching and blending live between the piezo saddle 'acoustic' (AG Stomp) channel, with pickups A/B-ing between the THD Bi-Valve and the modded Peavey 5150 rig. (If not careful, I'll want this whole rig out for all live performances - and house sound guys will hate me.) It will be interesting to produce this. I presume I'll cut just the acoustic blended with the THD and then overdub the 5150 on a separate track. Likewise, Jay will cut a rhythm track and then dub a lead track over the top. All in all it should be real fat and real smokin', just to get it down becomes five or six guitar tracks. I'm asking Jay to just cut LOOSE at the end of this song, which should be our blazin'est guitar to date.

Really looking forward to getting this song recorded. It's about time somebody heard this, as this song has been in the works for about five years now, and it hasn't ever sounded better. Proof will be in the pudding.

Enjoy this One Moment - -=sf=-