Today I'm going over Balance, a fairly new Matt Watson song. The song is extremely simple and thus the video was shortened for the sake of redundancy. Despite its simplicity to play, the chords are a little bizarre - a loop of A6, C#7(b9), F#m7, A/E.

Most of what makes the guitar part comes from effects - using a Jagstang, I set the output to the single-coil neck pickup with tone at ~75%. The guitar then passed through a basic compressor set to ~40%, before hitting an EQ with cutoff at ~4kHz. It's likely there's flanging at this point but I didn't end up using a flanger - instead going for a chorus pedal set wide with upped-rate; other settings sitting near the middle. Finally a reverb is applied, before going to a very clean amp with dropped bass, and treble at about 40%. Here is where things also get tricky - using a tape plugin, I chose to drive the signal (drive could be used on the amp instead), opting for moderate flutter and wow to sell the effect.

I'm excited to see Matt's new stuff from this point, all I guess I can really say is See You There.

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