Aqualung
One of rock's most-voted-for solos came out of a rig with almost nothing in it. Barre had met Leslie West after Benefit and bought a Les Paul Junior the way, as he puts it, everyone who met West did -- one P-90, one volume, one tone. That went into a Hiwatt with a homemade treble booster he describes as a couple of capacitors and some wire, because the Hiwatt had no front-end overdrive of its own. The entire tone is a single pickup pushing a clean amp past its limit.
Aqualung
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 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Treble Booster, Brit Watt 100, 4x12 Hiwatt Fane, Room 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.
- Katana 1 block missing from the file; 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Not in the file: Room. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Treble Booster, Delay, Room. 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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