Adding acoustic guitar to a production can provide a unique timbre that can provide rhythmic lift, melodic counter lines, or add a new soundscape to song structures. Many times I’ll start a song on acoustic with lots of strumming but as the song progresses I find my self seeking further separation of parts. Often this separation is found with smaller a voicing, or spread a voicing.

In the first video I am adding final touches to a song by Emily Nicole titled Mask. Emily is a piano player and that is where this song originated. The second video is a clip from a session where I had the pleasure of producing Waves Of Love 2.0 by Al Jardine. We began this song many years ago back in Boston from an aold ADAT tape. I extracted original Carl Wilson vocals and with the help of my colleague Taylor Barefoot produced the final track for producer Larry Dvoskin.