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Do you know what type of shoes Damon wore during the recording?

But seriously...

Throughout the album there is all sorts of panning of different guitar parts. Seems like simple overdubs, but I thought I heard that everything was done together in one take because of the nature of the songs' structure. I thought maybe each amp was panned to the side? However, in the picture of the guitar setup I only see fuzz, looper, and what looks like a regular amp selector. Nothing that would pan different parts between the two cabinets.

Would you care to tell how was this done?

Those AKAI Headrush (the looper) pedals have 4 outputs. one is just a mono sum of everything, but the other 3 can be used to separate the signal to different amps. if you have them separated, the main signal (the one being played) would go to one amp while a previously looped part would go to another amp.

ian williams used TWO of those pedals when i saw them around that time, so you can imagine all the options he had.

skatingbasser wrote:Do you know what type of shoes Damon wore during the recording?

But seriously...

Throughout the album there is all sorts of panning of different guitar parts. Seems like simple overdubs, but I thought I heard that everything was done together in one take because of the nature of the songs' structure. I thought maybe each amp was panned to the side? However, in the picture of the guitar setup I only see fuzz, looper, and what looks like a regular amp selector. Nothing that would pan different parts between the two cabinets.

Would you care to tell how was this done?

There was nothing "one take" about that record. It was meticulously worked over with hundreds of overdubs, edits, and punches. They labored every end of it.
By the time they had finished touring on it, the 3 of them could play every note live.
They worked out a lot of the details in the studio.

greg wrote:

skatingbasser wrote:Do you know what type of shoes Damon wore during the recording?

But seriously...

Throughout the album there is all sorts of panning of different guitar parts. Seems like simple overdubs, but I thought I heard that everything was done together in one take because of the nature of the songs' structure. I thought maybe each amp was panned to the side? However, in the picture of the guitar setup I only see fuzz, looper, and what looks like a regular amp selector. Nothing that would pan different parts between the two cabinets.

Would you care to tell how was this done?

There was nothing "one take" about that record. It was meticulously worked over with hundreds of overdubs, edits, and punches. They labored every end of it.
By the time they had finished touring on it, the 3 of them could play every note live.
They worked out a lot of the details in the studio.

Well there it is. Thanks much, Greg.

I toured opening for Don Cab on the American
Don tour and I remember that Ian said he had
been disappointed with the sound quality of the
loop pedal and that's why they did the parts as
overdubs. I imagine that along with the sound,
they wanted the ability to change the levels of
the various loops, which you can't do with the
Headrush by itself (there are two audio tracks
to the loop.. the original riff.. then the overdub
track).

There were a lot of hard feelings over that record,
probably a major factor behind them splitting up
mid-tour. I never heard the record until the tour
was over and I was disappointed by it... mainly
because once they were playing those songs on
tour again, they were playing much more invigorated
versions of them. The record seemed to be very
subdued in comparison, which might've been what
they were going for.. I'm not sure. I didn't like it
as much as the final live versions.

yeah, recording with a looper is a bad idea if you're looking for a better, more precise mix. my band ran into the same problem at electrical- but due to time constraints, did not have time to overdub.