My mum cannot stand this particular tune by My Bloody Valentine. All the more reason to play it. LOL



(She like most other tunes by them though, especially "Soon" - maybe because it's a bit groovy)

This one will also get a re-release on vinyl on the last day of this month, if everything's going well...

We're almost a half a year further now, and still have not heard anything about the vinyl reissue of Loveless.

The main ingredients are there I guess but it needs more balance. The droning noise is too harsh and overpowering. How did you make it?

Getting a good shoegazish sound is not an easy task. I've been trying for a while

paulstretch is amazing

What's the FX order? Putting delay after reverb or vice-versa can give you radically different results, for example. And it's incredibly easy to overdo it and turn everything into a messy, muddy thing. Which could be a good thing sometimes, but often it is not

My signal chain is usually something like:
distortion/overdrive -> delay/tape echo -> reverb

I'd set the delay quite high in the mix but with a low feedback setting (i.e. low number of repeats).
The reverb is crucial, as it should be quite dense but it must not turn the mix into a huge mess: I'd put it very close to 100% wet, on a large room/hall setting but with a short decay time, like 3 seconds or less. This gives you the big dense sound but leaves some clarity at the same time, so the chords changes are subdued but still audible.


I picked up the guitar and tried to recreate a sort of Slowdive-ish atmosphere in five minutes. Not the best effort and very amateur-like, I agree.
It's a single, very simple guitar track and the FX are pretty much what I wrote above, excluding the distortion. The reverb is on a large hall modulated setting and I also added an extra stereo chorus effect at the end of the chain for an increased stereo feel.
At the beginning I'm strumming the two chords once so you can hear how the delay and reverb interact together. The 2-3 echoes are quite high in the mix and they're glued together by the modulated reverb, which decays pretty quickly so it doesn't screw up the mix.

https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303861782

carlober @driver7

Here's another attempt. Lowered the volume and low end frequences outputing a beefier, more base centered muddy haze. The tape warp at the end was something I discovered on accident when I paulstretched a factor of .01 on a 1 second clip. Doesn't fit in with the rest but I couldn't resist not keeping it on here. I'm getting there, hopefully.


https%3A//soundcloud.com/starsailor96/shoegaze-attempt-2
 

https%3A//soundcloud.com/starsailor96/shoegaze-ethereal-noise
Just did this one! Think I finally got something I'm aiming for! 

Heavily drenched reverb and delay on bass with tremolo is awesome.

Here's some sleep music 



https%3A//soundcloud.com/starsailor96/interstellar-travel-ambient-space-noise

Indeed. The 2nd track is a piano that mimicked a choir with paulstretch alongside a bass tremolo that sounds like the rear engine exhaust ports for a spaceship. No reverb involved actually. The first clip indeed heavy reverb/delay with paulstretch. Gotta get a electric guitar soon to test out riffs. Want to start crafting actual songs with drum patterns, etc.