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 · 6 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1985, '70s reissue)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio compression (light)
Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12 (loud clean)
Hot Rod DeVille 2x12 (built-in)
Sennheiser MD 421 → API (no EQ)
Studio compression (light)
compressor
Output
6
Sensitivity
3
Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
overdrive
Drive
3
Tone
6
Level
6
Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12 (loud clean)
preamp
Volume
6
Drive
2
Bass
4
Middle
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
Reverb
2
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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