I gravitate towards riffs that "live" within the same area on the fretboard; less moving around allows focus on attitude: the bends, tremolo, rakes and stops. Glass Basement Blues was one such riff, written in a Blues-style. One might think that the guitar sounds were crafted using refined amps and pedals - yet all the modelling and signal processing was done digitally.

I opened up Reason, plugged in my guitar via an iRig HD, then tapped out the BPM before recording and double tracking the main riff. In the Insert FX section, I added a compressor, an EQ device, and fed into a Spider splitter, as I wanted to layer the sound through different amps. The first output from the Spider fed straight into a Line Mixer at a lower volume - I wanted to keep the raw attack and clarity of the guitar by having the direct signal in the mix. I then added the Softube Amp and layered a Scream4, before blending all three sounds in the Line Mixer. Each recording of the main riff used distinct amp modelling to get that great feel of being produced from two different sets of guitars and amps. I added a little bit of reverb, then moderately panned left and right for separation.