Whole Lotta Rosie
Rawer and louder than the law allows. On Let There Be Rock, Angus drove a late-'60s Gibson SG Standard into a cranked 100-watt Marshall JMP Super Lead with Celestion Greenbacks — and famously kept playing as the amp literally smoked during the solo. Producers Harry Vanda and George Young tracked it nearly live at Albert Studios, Sydney, with minimal overdubs and none of the later studio gloss. No pedals, standard tuning; the grit is all amp and right hand.
Let There Be Rock
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 6 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Klon, 1959 SLP Normal, 4x12 Greenback, Room, Tilt EQ. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Treble Booster (off), Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
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