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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Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1985, '70s reissue)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
T808 OD
Double Verb Nrm
2x12 Double Verb
Room Reverb
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Studio compression / level riding
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
180s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
T808 OD
← Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
Drive
3
Tone
6
Level
6
Double Verb Nrm
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Drive
4
Bass
4
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
MV
6
Cut
5
2x12 Double Verb
← Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
LowCut90Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Room Reverb
← Transporterraum room
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
0.0ms
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 089
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.
— Albert Hammond Jr
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