This Place is Empty

For 'This Place is Empty' I recorded the recurring guitar part with an NT1A placed about one foot away from the amplifier to get a more ambient sound and to give the guitars a warmer sound with more low end. I used the same microphone positioning for the shoegaze-style guitars at the end whilst using a combination of fuzz, distortion and reverse reverb effects pedals and an electric guitar with a tremolo arm which I manipulated whilst playing the chords to get this shoegaze sound. With the recording I tried to get everything sounding how I wanted before I began recording to reduce the amount of editing and mixing afterwards. I only used a CLA-2A compressor on the main vocal part and sent all the vocals to different reverb buses; the backing vocals were recorded by using two vocalists stood about a foot away from the NT1A and then sent fully to a bus with a very heavy reverb to get this ethereal sound I was looking for. I doubled up the shoegaze-style guitar and panned one left and one right with one completely unaffected and the other with compression and some EQ to give them both different sounds; I then sent them both to a stereo reverb bus to blend them into each other to get a more layered sound.  I didn't compress and EQ the drums because I liked how they sounded just put through a reverb bus. Artists like M83 and My Bloody Valentine were my main influences for this track.