For whatever reason I got the idea of working up a totally real mix of the old CCR Have you Ever seen the Rain. The idea was it's an easy tune to play, and so should be a good test of my recording skill. Can I get a sound I'm specifically after as opposed to liking whatever sound I happen to be able to get. Like a test in school, if I really understand a process, I should be able to solve a problem and get the right answer. The right answer here being a reasonable copy. Remember, I'm after the feel, the sound of the song, not trying to make a mirror image of the notes. I started out doing a rhythm track on my electric playing to the Logic metronome. Then I used a measure of midi drums ( I am lazy ). And metronome click really annoyed me so the sooner they were gone, the better.  Next came the melody line on electric to keep track of where I was in the song. It was late, and I don't have a bass here right now, so I sent that mix to a friend in Arkansas so he could add the bass line. Got that back the next morning. It was sorta, in his own words, overdone. He doesn't really like the simplicity of CCR and overplayed it. Not a biggie, I'll use it temporarily. Now we're up to yesterday. He and I had a phone chat ( yeah Vonage ) about bass tones and stuff. That caused me to actually dig in my closet and find the original CCR recording. Got it. Played it. Started listening real close thru phones. I use those a lot now, remember the cats don't like LOUD much. In headphones, the acoustic rhythm track stands out. It's in both channels, but slightly different. I remember hearing similar acoustic tracks on the early Highway 101 records. The puzzle is, is it one recording processed to do this somehow, or what. Google is your friend and so after a while I had lots of advice on recording a rhythm track. The majority opinion seems to be suck it up and play the part twice, recording in mono each time.  Then pan one hard left, and the other hard right. For whatever reason that is the the way. Oh, and just copying one track then panning that isn't the same. Won't get the effect. The idea of this approach is that two similar but not identical tracks panned hard L and R fill the edges of the sound field and drop off towards the center leaving sonic space for vocals and such. That's different from a track that is mono and drops off in volume towards the edges. A mono bass track would be an example of that. After so many years of midi, and mono mixed midi at that, this stuff fascinates me. Oh, and in listening I realize the CCR record had an organ and a piano in it. Huh, I thought they were a guitar band. Live and learn. jim d