My latest song, "Love In My Heart"

Hello, steemians, and welcome to my studio, eh!

I wrote the words to this song last fall, prompted by a conversation in the replies to a post. It was one of those, "I can do that" moments that kind of took on a life of its own. I started writing it as humor, but it took on a life of it's own and developed into something more than just humor.

I started the song by finding the drum track for the song and loading it into Audacity. I used a Country music beat that I bought from an on-line company and loaded into my Addictive Drums program. I recorded everything else to that.
I used my Fender Squire Stratocaster and the Fender Princeton Reverb amp for the guitar part and the little riff at the beginning of the song, recorded through a Shure SM-57 microphone into my Focusrite Scarlett Solo audio interface.

To record the bass, I used my Peavey Patriot bass guitar through the Tweed Baseman amp clone that I built, and ran it through a 2-10 speaker cabinet, recorded with the Shure SM-57 microphone. The speaker cabinet is a converted car stereo cabinet with a pair of heavy duty 10 inch musical instrument speakers.

To record the 2 part vocals, I used my Audio Technica Pro 5 live performance microphone through the audio interface.
From there, I mixed the song as best I could with my limited abilities, and added a touch of effects to the main vocal to try to give it some depth. From that point, I only had the lead guitar parts left to do.
This is where things got difficult for me. I just don't have the skills to play lead guitar, my rhythm guitar skills are barely adequate to do the basic tracks. After attempting to play some simple leads and failing, I decided that it was time to ask for some help with the lead parts. I contacted Hive account@veckinon to see if he would be interested in playing the lead parts for the song, I had worked with him before on a different song and was quite happy with the results. He agreed to give it a go, so I sent him the unfinished song to work on. He sent me the finished lead track last night, so I put it together and listened to it a bunch of times while tweaking the mix a bit here and there. I ended up adding a touch of reverb to his lead guitar work before I was finished messing with the mix.
I'm sure that the tracks could be mixed a little better, and that other production type things could be done to the mix to improve it a bit here and there, but that's beyond my current skill level, so it is what it is.