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 · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Booster
Crunch
Delay
Reverb
Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
7
Bottom
6
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
Crunch
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
5
Volume
7
Bass
3
Middle
6.5
Treble
7
Presence
5
Master
7
Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
380ms
Feedback
3
EffectLevel
22
Reverb
← Studio plate on the solo
Time
24ms
PreDelay
40ms
Tone
5
EffectLevel
24
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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