Take Me Out

Producer Tore Johansson recorded the debut album with deliberately limited analog equipment, while song-specific documentation identifies Alex Kapranos’ Telecaster Custom into a Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 captured with a Neumann U67. Exact knob positions were not published, so the amp values below are approximated from that bright, dry recording. Source: Sound on Sound’s “Recording Franz Ferdinand” and ToneDB’s song-specific entry.

Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy recorded the debut’s guitars mainly through Kapranos’s battered Selmer and Bob Hardy’s Fender Bassman 100, with bass rolled away at the microphone to create the band’s thin, interlocking attack. The tempo change was performed live, while the guitar identities and numerical controls below are representative settings approximated from the documented rig. Source: Sound on Sound’s “Recording Franz Ferdinand” and The Guardian’s “How We Made Take Me Out.”