I know what you mean. Problem is that I was making a bunch of stuff that sounded too much like Alex Calver for my tastes so I'm revisiting a lot of my older stuff and trying to bring it into the now. I love the style of this particular one but personally I don't think it possible to bring life to the acid line without having a real 303.
I produce in batches whereever possible and see which ones grab me over time and develop the ones people like. BOA is my quality control really. Sometime I rteally hat a track and you lot think its my best ever tune and then other tiumes something I worked hard on and love to bits gets utterly slated. Can't win really. In essence I'm trying to find that sound I want without emulating geezer or calver too much, hence the recent decline in quality. Also, like I say, the neighbors don't like music and they already want to cut my balls off so I'm doing it all very quietly.