further notes on "one thousand fathoms of water"

since quite a few people have asked about the recording techniques, details, and etc. on "one thousand fathoms", i thought i'd post a more complete description of how i recorded certain tracks.

drifting slow in one thousand fathoms of water
i sang and played acoustic guitar live into my centaur acoustic p.a, with the sound as muddled as possible on purpose (bass up, tone down, reverb up to 10). this was miced by my four track recorder, and i recorded the same thing over and over again for the next three tracks. this was to create a spectral, disengaged mood between the vocal and instruments.

the final note struck on the song was sampled, looped, and cut up (on audacity), and panned from speaker to speaker to make the intro and outro.

lulls
i recorded this song at different speeds and styles for a very long time, seemingly sounding more terrible each time. i finally deleted the entire mess and rerecorded in maybe twenty minutes, singing and playing my cheap steel string acoustic guitar live into my condenser mic with reverb. the electric slide guitar was altered for the aforementioned "muddled" effect as to make it as dronelike and indistiguishable as possible

asunder
same setup as "drifting slow", except with electric guitar. the sound was muddled as sonically possible to create a reverb-drenched drone. i played and sang the song live through two microphones, and added as much reverb as possible.


i hope that makes sense, clears things up, la la la la