No. 0862008·alt-rock·6 blocks
Use Somebody
The widescreen guitar hook on Use Somebody is Matthew Followill — not Caleb, who plays rhythm and sings — riding a delayed octave melody through a Matchless combo. Producer Jacquire King confirmed the Matchless was the amp on this track (the Selmer was Sex on Fire's). The shimmer is a rhythmic Line 6 delay plus a lush studio reverb (an Eventide DSP4000 added the 'synth-like' sheen at Blackbird in Nashville). The guitar is dialed clean and bright, the delay and reverb do the rest.
Only by the NightSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Epiphone Sheraton
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio compression (light)
Line 6 DL4 (rhythmic delay)
Matchless DC-30 (clean, edge of chime)
Matchless 2x12 (built-in)
Shure SM57 + Neumann U67
Eventide DSP4000 (lush studio reverb)
Studio compression (light)
compressor
Output
6
Sensitivity
4
Line 6 DL4 (rhythmic delay)
delay
Time
330ms
Repeats
3
Mix
30
Matchless DC-30 (clean, edge of chime)
preamp
Volume
5
Treble
6
Bass
5
Cut
4
Master
6
Eventide DSP4000 (lush studio reverb)
reverb
Mix
28
Predelay
20ms
Engineer's note
File 086
The widescreen guitar hook on Use Somebody is Matthew Followill — not Caleb, who plays rhythm and sings — riding a delayed octave melody through a Matchless combo. Producer Jacquire King confirmed the Matchless was the amp on this track (the Selmer was Sex on Fire's). The shimmer is a rhythmic Line 6 delay plus a lush studio reverb (an Eventide DSP4000 added the 'synth-like' sheen at Blackbird in Nashville). The guitar is dialed clean and bright, the delay and reverb do the rest.
— Matthew Followill
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