El distintivo sonido de guitarra en Money for Nothing de Dire Straits fue un accidente, causado por un micrófono que había quedado apuntando al suelo de la noche anterior. Nunca se ha podido replicar a la perfección.

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Fuentes

Richard Buskin. "Classic Tracks: Dire Straits 'Money For Nothing'". SOUND ON SOUND, mayo de 2006 https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-dire-straits-money-nothing

"One mic was pointing down at the floor, another was not quite on the speaker, another was somewhere else, and it wasn't how I would want to set things up — it was probably just left from the night before, when I'd been preparing things for the next day and had not really finished the setup. Nevertheless, whether it was the phase of the mics or the out-of-phaseness, what we heard was exactly what ended up on the record. There was no additional processing on that tune during the mix. Later on, we tried to recreate that guitar sound at the Power Station with the same amp, same setup and same models of microphone, but we could never get it. I'd drawn extensive pictures and had a little map of how everything was set up, but there must have been something weird going on to make the guitar sound that way in Montserrat, because in New York it sounded like a cleaner, karaoke version of the same thing. I messed around with it for a good couple of hours, but Mark was just getting bored and wanted to move on. The whole thing was very confusing".