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.
Room on FireSignal path · input → output · 2 blocksLive values · IK TONEX
Guitar
Epiphone Riviera (P-94)
Pickups
P90
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
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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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