Hey Floyd, thanks for chiming in and having a listen.

I too was totally blown away by the piano parts and fills I was hearing in the track as I listened.

As another aside: .... the acoustic is a Taylor 314 mic'd with a Rode NT2-A. I use some pretty squeaky strings, bronze rounds. That solo was filled with string squeaks before I edited it. I think I did a fairly good job on removing them without leaving artifacts behind. The editing was simple. I zoomed in and isolated the squeak, generally fairly easy to do, and simple muted it or in a few cases, applied gain reduction to it to lower it's peaks. If you listen carefully, with cans or a really nice studio rig, you can probably pick out where a few of them are still showing through a bit.

BTW: that same editing technique works beautifully on clicks and pops too which tend to be shorter in duration than a string squeak. Use the mute surgically and you won't hear that silence even in a held note. That's one of the benefits of working in a DAW like Sonar when it comes to audio editing.

Thanks for the kind words. And yes, I'm almost always writing something or another at a given point in time.

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