first of all: change of plans with the drummer. paul goodenough is going to play drums for "worth" now. this is the guy who drummed on "feels right" and the original "spaceship" for me. he is awesome. better than the other guy. and he will do it for free. didn't realize he had moved to chicago until recently and we hooked up before the holidays. we're hanging out in two weeks at which point we will try to iron out dates for recording.

jesse, it's hard to give advice from far away because it could be a million things and it's likely a combination of several things. first of all, everything sounds good in headphones. i can fart and it will sound good in headphones. i assume you're recording your amp through a 57? if so, what sort of preamp are you using? some analog compression on the front end will also really help the guitar hold its own amongst other stuff in the mix. next, i can't imagine that trying to combine/mix your independently recorded gtr tracks with my independently mixed tracks is ever going to be very successful. i would recommend sending me the wav file of your track(s) and letting me put that back into the original session and mix it with everything else like that. how's that for starters?