About the same as the chances of finding love at first try....it's all a shot in the dark.

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To anyone interested in mixdown or mixing music. The lead guitar solo in this song I tweaked until I got exactly the sound I wanted in the mix.

Months later, I was listening to the song again and soloed the lead guitar accidentally. I was amazed.It sounded tiny, tinny, weak, it was breaking up. I was sure I picked the wrong virtual track. But then I brought up the rest of the song around it and suddenly it gets the (more or less) velvety overdrive you hear.

I kept playing with bringing the rest of the mix down (lousy sounding crap guitar) and up again (rich melodious tone).

This is why you never want to buy a stomp box without trying it other than solo. And the best reason to get that tone "in the mix". I had previously never heard that guitar tone solo.

Shot in the Dark

Like a lightning strike,
Lights up the night,
Like a sudden storm,
On a sea of calm,
I saw you

That’s how it always goes.
And I never know,
Is the arrow true and will it hit the mark?
It’s a shot in the dark

Like a white tailed buck,
In the headlight beam,
I was unprepared,
In the first degree
When you saw me

When you feel your worst,
When you’ve given up.
When you’ve lost your thirst,
For a “one true love”
In she’ll come

I was all run down,
I was turned around.
And then I got into this game of chance,
And they call it romance…. But’s it’s always just
a shot…. in the dark

[Guitar Solo]

Like a midnight train,
Like a pouring rain,
Like two-tone shoes,
Give me the blues,
And I saw you