While the artists who shape this sound maintain a level of mainstream approaches to their music, they opt to trade the crisp precision of pop for something hazier and more enveloping. They reimagine pop into a dreamscape\u2014thus, dream pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here on the Splice blog, we’ve defined various genres and subgenres that capture the hearts of many like shoegaze<\/a>, cloud rap<\/a>, neo soul,<\/a> and trance.<\/a> In this guide, we move a step past definitions and speak to the production techniques surrounding one of dream pop’s most central instruments: the electric guitar. Refer to this guide whenever you\u2019re in production mode, on the hunt for that perfect dream pop guitar tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel free to use the table of contents below to navigate to a specific section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s dive in!<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll learn:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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