"The guitar sound was there on the demos,"; says Rodaidh. "It's not something we arrived at in the studio, although there were elements of the detail that we spent a long time working on. A lot of people ask about the reverbs, but a lot of the reverb on the lead guitar is from a Roland Microcube, which I think they still use and is like a £100 amp. It needed to sound super‑clear and icy, and we did try a bunch of different amps just to see if there was something else that worked out, but that was the lead guitar sound that ended up on the record really — a Boss DD3 delay pedal and the digital reverb setting on the Microcube. I've got a ton of amps and I brought some things in that we did end up using for the rhythm guitar parts. The [Fender] Blues Deluxe is pretty much on every track on the album as well. Romy used an Epiphone Les Paul and a Gibson 335, just for a couple of tracks, and Baria used a Gibson SG for the whole record, going most of the time into the Blues Deluxe or into a [Fender] Hot Rod Deluxe.";
Auch live spielt Romy eine Cube, allerdings keinen Microcube. Sieht eher nach einem größeren aus. Kann man bei paar Sessions ganz gut sehen.
Also was ich damit sagen will an dem Sound ist nicht irgendwas magisches dran. Stell einfach ein digitalen Hall auf recht viel Decay und probier mit dem Mix Regler bisschen rum. Wichtig ist bei The XX immer das Gefühl des Songs in den Anschlag der Saite zu legen. Dann kommt man schon recht gut hin.