I'm feeling much better about multi-track recording, now. It's still a bit tricky, especially when you're a lousy musician, to get everything perfect...but the technology isn't the problem. My friend, Mark's, recorder actually makes things a lot easier. I wish it had more than four tracks, though. It's an older cassette model so it's limited because of that. The newer digital recorders have many more tracks.

On the other hand, maybe four is enough. KISS applies.

I'm finishing up my first ever, full length album. (That's an LP in platter days, about 11 songs.) I'm putting it all on a CD, of course. I wanted to do one more song, but the newest one I wrote is a bit more tricky for me to play solo. I'd really like to do them it a band. (That would be my OGRB friends.) So, it'll have to wait for next year.

The album is called "Really, I Can't Sing" because, well, really...I can't sing. The idea is to put the music down onto a medium so I won't forget it. Doing it with multi-track recording just made it a lot more fun for me.

It's a collection of mostly folk-rock like songs. One of the things I noticed is that some of the melodies are very similar. I guess my creativity is limited. Nevertheless, in reviewing the work, I only had to tweak one melody of one song to make it more distinct. I can live with the rest.

Well, I'm off to do some stuff before my recording sessions. Who knows, maybe I'll be inspired to make the album an even dozen. Then, it's up to iTunes to made a CD and a label making package for labels. Fun.