No. 0882003·indie-rock·6 blocks
Reptilia
The descending lead hook on Reptilia is Nick Valensi's Epiphone Riviera — a semi-hollow with bright P-94 single-coils — pushed by a Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde overdrive into a loud, clean Fender Hot Rod DeVille. It's not high gain: the grind is edge-of-breakup amp headroom plus a light overdrive. Producer Gordon Raphael tracked the band at Transporterraum in NYC with a single Sennheiser MD 421 per amp straight into an API preamp, no EQ — and hard-panned the two interlocking guitars across the stereo field.
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Guitar
Epiphone Riviera (P-94)
Pickups
P90
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
4
Tone
6
Level
6
Double Verb Nrm
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Drive
4.5
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 088
The descending lead hook on Reptilia is Nick Valensi's Epiphone Riviera — a semi-hollow with bright P-94 single-coils — pushed by a Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde overdrive into a loud, clean Fender Hot Rod DeVille. It's not high gain: the grind is edge-of-breakup amp headroom plus a light overdrive. Producer Gordon Raphael tracked the band at Transporterraum in NYC with a single Sennheiser MD 421 per amp straight into an API preamp, no EQ — and hard-panned the two interlocking guitars across the stereo field.
— Nick Valensi
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