I started this one Saturday evening, with the first thing I played when I picked up the guitar. (That's in the left channel at the beginning.) This turned out to be in 7/4, so that set up some interesting constraints on every other addition. Mostly there's a little breathing room at the end of phrases, but of a particular duration. I like some of the harmonies that come out of this, as well as the bit of swing that emerges from the time signature.
This is three channels of PureSalem Mendiola (first version), with both pickups (left channel), bridge pickup (right channel), and neck pickup (panned center, mostly chords). I was too lazy to plug in any pedals, but did (like last week) add a touch of send from the left and right to Ableton's Echo plugin. And there's the usual convolution reverb and compression/eq/limiter on the stereo mix.
I'd initially uploaded this, and then when listening back I detected an abrupt note cutoff at the end of one section. I'd intended for the note to decay across the bar line, but moving pieces around changed it to a hard edit. Now it's right.
The title comes from the elevation of Foresthill, CA, at 661m.
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