Good description bro'!!!!!
I have just finished the guidetracks for the pre-production. I got this good feeling that the vocaltakes will better and a lot easier to nail this time. A good old period of rehearsals with the lyrics sure do help to get 'into' the tracks and add some magic 'feel' to the actual takes....
It'll be sad to see the end of concepts for Nightingale (at least for now), but I guess it's a mature decision for a band to take.. after all, they ARE a band now.