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.
Is This ItSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1985, '70s reissue)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Crunch
Boost
Reverb
Crunch
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille + Jekyll & Hyde
Gain
40
Volume
60
Bass
40
Middle
65
Treble
70
Presence
60
Master
60
Boost
← Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
Drive
25
Bottom
0
Tone
60
Level
65
Reverb
← Transporterraum room
Time
8ms
PreDelay
16ms
Tone
55
EffectLevel
12
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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