For this session we focused on guitar tracking, specifically the rhythm guitars with the addition of a few lead guitar tracks. We actually managed to record the rhythm guitar tracks for ‘Wake Up’ at the end of our last session as we already had quite a good idea of how we wanted them to sound, however we weren’t quite sure for the rest of the tracks so this required a little more time to experiment.

The foundation of the rhythm sound ended up consisting of a Fender Telecaster running through my Orange Rocker 30. I then used a Shure SM57 and an AKG C414 on the guitar cab and took a DI signal from the guitar into the desk as a back up incase I wanted to re-amp it. Once we had experimented with different tones, it was clear two of the tracks needed to quite a crunchy guitar tone whilst the other two required a warmer, less gained sound to compliment the style of them.

Once we were happy with all of the rhythm tracks we moved onto the rest of the guitar parts such as leads and cleans. A great thing about this was that each of these tracks all required different tonal qualities which allowed us to experiment with various pedal delays and modulation which we printed into Pro Tools.