I feel more like a real engineer, or even a producer, when recording someone else performing. Technically I get both credits all the time anyway, sometimes sharing the engineering one, but when it's your own performance, the titles seem pointless. Not so when someone else is playing and you're learning how to give them what they need to hear themselves well, plus learning how to record their instrument to get the best sound with the fewest problems. Having good performers helps. Now that I'm doing all recording here, my role has actually expanded when I was hoping I'd one day just focus on my guitar playing, but it was my decision, so I can't really complain.

My singer has been sidelined a few months but should return to recording here at the house in the coming weeks. I need to get back to writing lyrics!

Instead, I've been recording a lot of lead guitars in the past month, many of them on instrumentals despite the fifth album being a vocal one with maybe one or two instrumentals. I have such a backlog! Anyway, I've finished five of ten songs with more on the way.