I started off by quickly recording a rough guitar track to keep me in time as well as to know when to change parts. I then recorded the drum parts I wrote for the song then when I did that I cut any empty space that I didn’t play on to keep the sound clean.
I then recorded my bass part through a Fender rumble 100 which has a great bass tone which I really wanted to use for this song
I then recorded all the clean and distortion rhythm and lead tracks using a fender champion 100 to get a great clean and a kind of brutal sounding distortion. I couldn’t get a good crunch sound using the fender champion 100 so I used a Marshall to record all my crunch rhythm and lead tracks which was better but I still wasn’t 100% happy with it but I didn’t have enough time to find something better. I did all my guitar parts using a squire Stratocaster as this was heavily influenced by Biffy Clyro and the guitarist Simon Neil always uses Stratocasters.
I then recorded an acoustic guitar at the end of the big build up for a place to stop at the end of the build up and accompanied it with a clean lead with mountains of reverb to make it atmospheric.
I then added some violins for the solo intro and some staccato for the start of the build up.
Finally I mixed and mastered the song so that every track does its own job and the volumes where perfect. The reverb clean lead I record had full reverb on the amp but that still wasn’t enough so I added even more reverb while mixing it to make it even more atmospheric.