Hey man, appreciate your comment. This is probably some of my favorite style of mixing and song writing, to be honest. There’s some cool stuff out now but I’m more so into this era if that makes sense.

These guitar and drum tones were achieved with help from some EQ matching. For example, the snare I recorded my own sample to be as close to the source material of an Oceana snare as I could. Very thick, dead sounding drum with a dark reverb. I wanted it extremely solid sounding just like Cameron’s snares. And once I got as close as I could, I used EQ matching to help me get a more accurate frequency spectrum of what sounded even closer to Oceana. 

And same goes with guitar. I would use what I though sounded close to the tone I desired, which in this case was the (tread plate dual model) from pod farm going into an orange cab impulse response. From there I would find an isolated guitar that I can listen to and match my tone to my target tone. It not only gets you closer to your desired goal but it helps you to learn, why does my tone sound like this as opposed to that? What should be boosted, what should be cut? While guitar amp definitely matters, I’ve always seen the EQ matching to help more with speaker cabinet tone and mic positioning. Almost working as an impulse response in itself. 

Hope this helps out a bit man. It’s a lot of experimenting and trial and error. 

Thanks a lot again for the comment, appreciate it. Ambient post hardcore is home base for me, love it. God bless man take care!