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Echo Home Riff Guitar Tone Settings — The Kills
The Kills · 2010s+ · rock
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
1963 Fender Telecaster (Lake Placid Blue)
Pickups
Fishman Fluence Pickups
Amp
Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 (blended with Magnatone 280 and Selmer Treble and Bass Head)
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup
Studio recording for 'Echo Home' (2016, Ash & Ice album). Jamie Hince is known to blend multiple amps in the studio, including Selmer Zodiac Twin 30, Selmer Treble and Bass Head, and a 1950s Magnatone 280. The rig rundown and Equipboard sources confirm these amps and the Telecaster with Fishman Fluence pickups for this era/album. No evidence of live-only gear in the riff section.
Amp Settings
Mids7
Bass6
Gain5
Reverb3.5
Treble7
Presence6
Effects Chain
- Fulltone Supa-Trem ST-1 · tremolo
- Death By Audio Echo Dream 2 · delay
Guitar → Fulltone Supa-Trem ST-1 → Death By Audio Echo Dream 2 → Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 (with spring reverb, blended with Magnatone 280 and Selmer Treble and Bass Head)
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Tone Character
- dark, wooly low end
- bright reverby top end
- British amp character
- slightly gritty edge
- articulate attack
- open, dynamic response
- not heavily saturated
- touch-sensitive
- blended amp texture
- roomy, atmospheric presence