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 · 9 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Kinky Boost
Scream 808
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Transistor Tape
Plate
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
8dB
Attack
60s
Release
350s
Mix
35
Level
0dB
Kinky Boost
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Gain
7
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
Scream 808
← Modern lead boost (alternate)
Gain
3.5
Tone
5
Level
7
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Drive
5.5
Bass
3
Mid
6.5
Treble
7
Presence
5
ChVol
7
Master
10
Bias
6
BiasX
5
Sag
6.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut110Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Transistor Tape
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
LowCut180Hz
HighCut3600Hz
Time
380ms
Feedback
28
Mix
22
Level
0
Plate
← Studio plate on the solo
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
24
Decay
2.4s
Predelay
40ms
Level
0
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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