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
Deluxe Comp
Scream 808
Minotaur
US Double Nrm
2x12 Double C12N
Room
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression / level riding
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
100s
Release
800s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde (OD side)
Gain
3.5
Tone
6
Level
7
Minotaur
← MXR Micro Amp (clean lead lift)
Gain
2
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
US Double Nrm
← Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
Drive
4.5
Bass
4
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
2x12 Double C12N
← Hot Rod DeVille 2x12
LowCut90Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Room
← Transporterraum room
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
12
Decay
0.4s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
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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