Laid down the acoustic track for the first song Grow Up. I put the mic back 2 feet from my guitar amp and gated the buzz out. The result is this surf rock kind of sound, so I put down this track of rapid strumming. It's alright. I'm tired now, so tomorrow I'll put down the basic violin track. I read somewhere that John Cale used mandolin and guitar strings on his viola. I might do something like that. I have a few spare violins lying around the house. I also want to try tuning each string on the violin or guitar a whole step, another technique the VU used. I'm adding tambourine and maybe a background vocal on this sooner or later. I tried out the lead vocal today. I'm looking for this soft, kind voice. A problem I'm running into is that my b and p sounds are making weird bass thuds on the track. I'm not sure what it's called, but I think that's why people have fishnets or screens over their mics. I'm using a little condenser mic so I'm not sure how I'm going to solve this one. I could borrow a nicer condenser mic from my bandmate if nothing works out.

This first one's a simple one. But I need to be more clever with arrangements. I'm banning myself from the acoustic guitar for the next few songs. It's a nice control or rule to have, and I'll definitely make a lot more use out of the electric guitar if I restrict myself. The problem is that I have this fucking annoying ground loop from the amp. I stole Luke's amp because my Fender amp had the same buzz, but the Vox amp is having the same problem. I need to get on fixing that quickly. 6 songs. Jebus Christ.