Well that was a quick day

Today was a recording day for me---guitars, specifically---and one that I had been sort of putting off. Well, maybe not so much "putting off", but I intentionally held this particular song I was going to record until such time as I had no other songs I could record. It's not because the song itself is particularly hard, in fact it's one of the simpler ones rhythm guitar-wise. But I held off because this is the song out of all the demos that has the guitar solo I like the most. In fact, it's one of my favorite solos I've ever written, period. And I hadn't played it probably since the first time I recorded it. Basically I held off on this one until the end because I thought it was going to take me a long time to:

1) Relearn the solo
and
2) Record a take of the solo that I actually liked

Well, that ended up not being the case. I more or less relearned the solo in about 20 minutes (although I did change one lick.) And when I sat down to record the song, currently titled "Untitled 2", it took me about two hours to do everything. Two hours. For two rhythm guitar tracks, one solo track, one solo harmony track, and one track that's basically just a rhythm harmony line under the solo. I may or may not use that last track, but the idea crossed my mind to just play a harmony line to the chord changes and sort of bury it in the mix as a little "easter egg" type beefing up.

As for the solo, let me put it this way. Typically for these demos, I can maybe go through anywhere from 10 to 30 to whatever takes to get a solo I like. This one took about 5.

I have plans later this evening starting at about 5pm. I had anticipated that I would be recording all day up until then. So, even after I finished in apparently record time, I did a little mixing work on the song. Just through a little bit of EQ and reverb on the rhythm tracks to sharpen them up a little. Now I need to figure out something to do for a couple hours.