Last August I arrived at a meditation cave in the wilderness of Northern New Mexico, armed with food and water for a week, with my guitar, a microphone, a recording device, and a mic stand I borrowed from Jon Gagan’s studio in Santa Fe.
Over the course of the next week I spent each day doing zazen (sitting meditation) for 6 hours and playing guitar for 1-2 hours. I recorded much of that guitar playing but didn’t listen to what I had recorded. I brought no musical ideas to the cave, hoping that I would have enough ideas during my days there to record an album’s worth of music.
I used the Valhalla Supermassive reverb because it made the guitar sound the way I wanted it to sound in my *mind*. A large reverb, such as the one I used for his music, creates chords out of arpeggios. The single notes of a melody hang in the air and are shaped into clouds of harmonies. At times it sounds like I am playing with an orchestra or added a lot of keyboards.
