No. 2011978·hard-rock·4 blocks
Gates of Babylon
Rainbow's orchestral epic, cut at the Chateau d'Herouville in December 1977 and finished with a Bavarian string ensemble scored by Rainer Pietsch. The front end is the same AIWA-tape-deck-into-Marshall-Major rig as the rest of Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, but this solo asks something different of it: a harmonic-minor melody that has to sing over real strings. The tone sits darker and wetter than the album's riffs, because the orchestra already owns the top end.
Long Live Rock 'n' RollSignal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
EP Booster
Plexi 100W High
4x12 Greenback
Tape Delay
Plate
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
60s
Release
350s
Mix
0.3
Level
0dB
EP Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
7
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
Plexi 100W High
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Drive
5.5
Bass
3
Mid
6.5
Treble
7
Presence
5
MV
7
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut110Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Level
0dB
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
380ms
Feedback
0.3
Mix
0.2
Plate
← Studio plate on the solo
Mix
0.2
Decay
2.4s
Predelay
40ms
Filter Tilt
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
0.4
CenterFreq
900Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 201
Rainbow's orchestral epic, cut at the Chateau d'Herouville in December 1977 and finished with a Bavarian string ensemble scored by Rainer Pietsch. The front end is the same AIWA-tape-deck-into-Marshall-Major rig as the rest of Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, but this solo asks something different of it: a harmonic-minor melody that has to sing over real strings. The tone sits darker and wetter than the album's riffs, because the orchestra already owns the top end.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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