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.
Hot FussSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Ibanez Destroyer (1970s)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Crunch
Big Muff
Room
Crunch
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille (edge-of-breakup)
Gain
4
Volume
6
Bass
4
Middle
5
Treble
7
Presence
6
Master
6
Big Muff
← EHX Big Muff (demo only)
Drive
6
Bottom
5
Tone
6
Level
5
Room
← Studio room (interpretive)
Time
2ms
PreDelay
20ms
Tone
6
EffectLevel
10
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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