Distorted guitar solos.

I just noticed that all of the guitar solos on the upcoming album are pretty distortion-heavy. I don't think a single solo appears on the new disc that doesn't feature a significant level of distortion.

Most notable in this regard is "Shiver With Pride," which features this following eight-note solo. I'd recorded it in 2012 as a rough take, as a mere example of what I was going for. However, its simplicity stuck. When I re-recorded the solo in the summer of 2013, in stereo with a slide, I basically copied the original solo note-for-note. However, the new version just didn't play as dirty as I'd grown familiar with in my rough, rough mix, so I pasted this version in to dirty up the mix a little.

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Later in the song, when the big lead guitar returns over the final repetition of the chorus, I didn't need to splice this in; in that section, the slide was dirty enough. But for the solo proper, the bits of lo-fi distortion seemed necessary.