guitar + rest of mix processing by Liam Riedmuller

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:23:00 UTC

This is the chain for the rhythm guitar that I played in the verses. With this one I was trying to get it to sound more like the original track rather than how I'd normally make guitars sound in my tracks. I was going for more of a rugged sound, sort of midways between a clean and an overdrive. It's purpose was to sound good with the palm-mutes in the verses, and then add a harsher almost percussive texture in the pre-choruses and choruses.

The chain is, noise gate, vintage vibe plug-in and compressor.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:23:30 UTC

This is the vintage vibe plug-in I used to give it that more rugged sound, I used a preset called midwest emo clean tele tone and then tweaked amp settings slightly to lower the bass and boost the mids a bit

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:23:41 UTC

This is the secondary view for the plug-in and you can see that all the pedals are active, which is why the chain itself doesn't seem like it's got a lot going on.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:23:50 UTC

Here you can see that it's not being sent to any return tracks, but there are two guitars double tracked and panned hard left and right.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:26:38 UTC

this is the chain for guitar 2 of the track. It's a chain that I made with only ableton plug-ins to get a juicy distorted guitar.

It's purpose was to be a lead guitar that fills out the pre-choruses and choruses, it's a lot more overdriven than the first guitar but nothing crazy. Mainly playing power chords in the chorus and some melodic bits in the pre-chorus

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:26:47 UTC

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:01 UTC

Here you can see that I sent the group to the guitar room reverb return track, and that they're panned 30 left and right. I didn't hard pan them because I wanted to fill out the spaces in the middle rather than just having things be centered or solely on the sides.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:13 UTC

This guitar uses the same chain as the previous one but I EQ'd them differently.

The purpose of this one is to fill out the harmonic texture of the guitars, it only plays octaves of the third of whatever chord is currently being played, and I sent it quite aggressively to the reverb return track

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:22 UTC

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:30 UTC

as you can see here, the group is being fully sent to the reverb return track, and they're almost completely hard panned but not totally.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:45 UTC

This is a plug-in I used called SKY KEYS. I wanted to add some texture to the verses just for my own creative addition to the song.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:27:53 UTC

this is my chain for the bass guitar in the song.

In order it goes as such:

Noise gate

vintage vibe plug-in

corrective EQ

creative EQ

compressor

multiband dynamics

I put the noise gate first in order to isolate the sound of the raw bass before any modifications, then the plug-in in order to beef up the direct input sound, followed by the corrective eq to fine-tune this sound, and then the creative on to regain lost frequencies. Next is the compressor to fix any dynamic issues, and then finally the multiband dynamics to stamp out an annoying high end frequency that would play during certain notes, but was necessary to get the tone right for the verses.

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:02 UTC

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:12 UTC

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:20 UTC

this is the same plug-in I used for the main rhythm guitar, but this time I didn't use any preset I just edited the default sound slightly to be more suited for the bass to try and give it that more rugged sound

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:27 UTC

in this part of the plug-in you can see that none of the pedals are activated

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:36 UTC

This is the chain for the main drum kit for the song. The order is as follows:

EQ plug-in

drum room reverb

compressor

drum buss

Before the chain is the plug-in for the midi drum controller. So I started with EQ to fine-tune the frequencies, boosting the lows a bit and slightly adding air to the cymbals. Then the reverb to make the drums sound less dry, followed by the compressor to squash out crazy dynamics, and then ableton's drum buss tool which I use to give the kick drum a bigger boom sound, tuned to the root note of the key of the song

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:42 UTC

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:47 UTC

This is the drum chain for the 'room kit' it's a lot more simple because it's not supposed to sound 'refined'. It's just a drum room reverb and an aggressive compressor to make the drums sound really flat

liamriedmuller2 — 2025-09-05 17:28:53 UTC

These are the sends for the return tracks, as you can see on 'room kit' I sent it fully towards return track A, which as stated in my previous padlet, is a guitar room reverb. This is because I was trying to get this kit to sound less high-quality, a bit more roughly made for the intro. I used a plug-in by steven slate audio called SSD5 and it lets you choose what mics are being used too so I muted all of them except the room mics to really enhance the effect I wanted.

Percussion is also slightly being sent to the guitar room return track