amazing performance!

I love your song writing

I really like the moment when the kick comes in. Very cool song!

your recordings sound great. nice work. And I agree about the drums!

...and the harmonies are just spot on perfect.

I just love how much this sounds like a ghost singing in a canyon with a guitar he played while he was alive. And I can't get over how much 2:32 tickles my ears

reminds me of pink floyd's most chill songs. Meddle? I think thats a good example?
Not very spooky for me but very enjoyable and relaxing songwriting, so props!

^ exactly my thoughts

best in show? Fantastic

Dying to know how you captured and mixed all your audio!! This sounds so good to me

thanks a lot for the kind words everyone!

sloopy, my recording workflow is actually busted as hell, but i'm glad people like the results! i recorded all the liveplay parts one at a time on my zoom H2 in mono mode while sat on the sofa (using my partner's cross-stitching apparatus as a mic stand for the vocal takes), then transferred them from the SD card to my laptop and put it together in ableton.

the baritone guitar track was recorded first (to a metronome) since it's the backbone of the whole piece, then for the rest of the liveplay takes i was listening to that through one earbud. normally i record vocal and guitar simultaneously because that's how i write, but for the style i was going for in this entry i wanted a bit more control at the mixing stage so i recorded the vocals separately.

besides the baritone guitar and main vocals, there's liveplayed acoustic guitar (panned right) and the various harmonised vocals (the bit

at 2:32 is 4-part harmony with 7 voices as the top 3 parts are doubled L-R). the drums and piano are both from pianobook

, a source of free DRM-less sample packs i highly recommend, played with decent sampler

(just a free sampler). there's also a very soft mellotron bass. the mixing is all just light-touch EQ, compression, delay, & reverb with stock ableton plugins (i don't think this style would sound good over-produced). ableton session looks like this:



hope this is helpful!

p.s. your vocal entries, especially this one, were massively inspirational for me getting more into singing/songwriting for BotB entries, something that i'd never even considered doing when i first signed up. you're one of my BotB heroes!

this is beautifully haunting/hauntingly beautiful. really cool song!

dunno whether to praise the guitar playing or the vocals. so ill do both. theyre both great.

Well done.

beyond stoked this got top ten