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 Fire
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 6 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: LA Compressor, Klon, US Double, 2x12 Double, Room Reverb, Tilt EQ. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Boost, Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
