This is the companion piece to “Ardor“; the two are intended to be the first and last tracks of an EP, although I haven’t quite worked out which songs best fit in between. Despite being, by my standards, unusually dense and orchestrated, this was surprisingly easy to mix.
The majority of the rhythm parts are my Solar A1.8 and SR1.6 guitars and the leads are a combination of the JEM and the Solars. Received wisdom is that the pickups on a guitar, beyond a baseline level of quality, don’t really matter once you start playing with distortion and you’re EQing the guitar for a mix. I agree to a point, but the Evolution pickups in the JEM, which are voiced for lead guitar, are still a good deal less polite than Fishman Fluence Moderns; the JEM has a lot more bite for rhythm parts and it really brings out scratches, harmonics and the rest of the “show-off” techniques. If I was recording a track with just the one rhythm-and-lead guitar part the Evolutions would win every time.
The title of this track is an anagram.
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