He replied that these were the amps which Mark Knopfler rent from him for some rehearsal sessions for the recording of Randy Newman’s Land of Dream album, so not really a direct confirmation that this was used on the first album. Much later I had a short email conversation with Andy and asked him about his source for this info. He wrote a column about legendary guitar sounds, and named these three amps together with the Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer compressor and a Fender maple-neck Strat as the gear used on this album.
The writer of this article was Andy Brauer who runs a gear rental service in Hollywood.
My source was an article in the Guitar Player magazine from around 1988. It was myself who set this into the world with my first Dire Straits Guitar Page. Other amps that are commonly suggested here are a Roland Jazz Chorus and a Fender Twin Reverb. Mark Knopfler used this amp on stage before and after recording the album in February 1978. It seems likely that the brown Fender Vibrolux – an amp that originally belonged to Dire Straits’ bass player John Illsley – was used on this album. There is hardly information available that tells us anything about the gear on the famous first Dire Straits album. Contributors: Jean-François Convert, Ingo Raven Guitars
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