With the exception of a couple of tracks where guests chose to record using direct inject signals from their acoustic guitars, all guitars are acoustically recorded and have largely been recorded with the affordable, yet high quality Studio Project T3 microphone amplified by T L Audio's Pentode Tube PA1 microphone preamps via MOTU AD-DA converters. As anybody will be aware from reading my recording column in Acoustic magazine, the concept of reamping acoustic guitars is not new and has been used ever since the electronic amplifier was utilised solely to create exciting new sounds. This said, other than on one occasion when a Fender 100 watt 4/12 stack was employed for the track, 'This Poor Boy', I never used an amp on the session; all distorted sounds were generated by Logic Pro 7.2.2 Guitar amp pro. At times in order to create different sounds and playability, the string gauges and various un-standard tunings were used. These range from simple use of capos to DADGAD, and standard tunings dropped to lower keys, with a few variations on the way.

Our agenda was to use the guitars 'as supplied' by the manufacturers, as they would have arrived at the shop, utilising both cheaper and more expensive models. It was always Hugo's and my decision to allow all musicians full autonomy with their performances, and in most cases each guest has delivered their performance via either the internet or by traditional snail mail That said, due to the nature of the project, throughout the recording process there have been many logistical problems to overcome.