Julian Casablancas

Julian used this guitar amplifier and other equipment during "Is This It" recording sessions to create his trademark lo-fi vocal distortion effect.

Gordon Raphael, the band's producer at that time said about this technique:

*"So, that was one technique, and then the second technique was something that Julian had discovered on his own at home while making the demos. He liked to sing through his Peavey practice amp, which is about eight inches tall, and I'd mike that with a Neumann TLM103, so he'd still be singing into the Audio-Technica (Julian found the Neumann distasteful!), but I'd be Neumanning it in order to get the exact details of what this horrible little amp sounded like. He wanted it shitty, but not too shitty. He would always say things like, 'This sound needs to have its tie loosened.' Those were the kind of technical descriptions I would get every day.." *