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.
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Guitar
Epiphone Sheraton
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
LA Compressor
UK 30 TopBoost
2x12 Blue
Digital Delay
Plate Reverb
Tilt EQ
LA Compressor
← Studio compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
200s
Mix
60
Level
0dB
UK 30 TopBoost
← Matchless DC-30 / Vox AC-15
Gain
4
Bass
5
Mid
5.5
Treble
6.5
Presence
5.5
Master
6
Sag
5.5
2x12 Blue
← Matchless 2x12
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Digital Delay
← Line 6 DL4 (dotted-eighth)
Time
330ms
Feedback
28
Mix
30
Level
0
Plate Reverb
← Eventide DSP4000 (lush studio reverb)
Decay
3.5s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
26
Level
0
Tilt EQ
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
5.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
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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