No. 0792004·alternative·4 blocks
Mr. Brightside
The cascading hook everyone thinks is delay — and isn't. Dave Keuning recorded it with one rig: a 1970s Ibanez Destroyer straight into a loud Fender Hot Rod DeVille. The shimmer is a moving Dadd9 voicing with the open high E ringing through it, played in standard tuning, pushed to edge-of-breakup. The famous Telecaster / AC30 / dotted-eighth-delay 'recipe' is a myth that contradicts Keuning's own account.
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Guitar
Ibanez Destroyer (1970s)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Double Verb
2x12 Fender
Room
Graphic EQ
Compressor
← Studio compression
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
8s
Release
180s
Mix
0.7
Level
0dB
Double Verb
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Drive
5
Bass
4
Mid
5
Treble
7
Presence
6
MV
7
Cut
5
2x12 Fender
← Fender 2x12
LowCut80Hz
HighCut10000Hz
Level
0dB
Room
← Studio room (interpretive)
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.3s
Predelay
20ms
Graphic EQ
← Brightness EQ
1.2kHz
2
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 079
The cascading hook everyone thinks is delay — and isn't. Dave Keuning recorded it with one rig: a 1970s Ibanez Destroyer straight into a loud Fender Hot Rod DeVille. The shimmer is a moving Dadd9 voicing with the open high E ringing through it, played in standard tuning, pushed to edge-of-breakup. The famous Telecaster / AC30 / dotted-eighth-delay 'recipe' is a myth that contradicts Keuning's own account.
— Dave Keuning
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