No. 0892001·indie-rock·5 blocks

Last Nite

The bright, hammered riff of Last Nite is Albert Hammond Jr's white Fender Stratocaster into a loud, clean Fender Hot Rod DeVille — not, despite the persistent myth, a Crate VC30. Producer Gordon Raphael documented the DeVilles himself: one Sennheiser MD 421 per amp on opposite sides of the basement room at Transporterraum, straight into an API preamp with no EQ. The grit is amp headroom plus a light overdrive, and the two interlocking guitars are panned hard left and right.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1985, '70s reissue)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Scream 808
Minotaur
US Double Nrm
2x12 Double C12N
Room
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression / level riding
Dynamics
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
100ms
Release
800ms
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
Distortion
Gain
3
Tone
6
Level
7
Minotaur
← MXR Micro Amp (clean boost)
Distortion
Gain
1.8
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
US Double Nrm
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Amp
Drive
4
Bass
4
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
2x12 Double C12N
← Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Cab
LowCut90Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Room
← Transporterraum room
Reverb
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
12
Decay
0.4s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
EQ
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0

What we checked

Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works

Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
  • Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
  • Quad Cortex 6 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: LA Compressor, Klon, US Double, 2x12 Double, Room Reverb, Tilt EQ. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.

  • Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Boost, Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.

Helix DSP
65.4% of one chip — fits
Sources
3 cited, 3 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Not yet ratedThis recipe predates the attribution-confidence field and hasn't been reviewed for it.
What we didn't check
  • Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
  • The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
  • No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
  • 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.

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