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 · 6 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Treble Booster
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Marshall Plexi 200W'
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Compressor
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Intensity
3
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Treble Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
7
Tone
5.5
Volume
7.5
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Marshall Plexi 200W'
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
5.5
Bass
3
Middle
6.5
Treble
7
Presence
5
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
380ms
Feedback
28
Mix
22
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate on the solo
Decay
2.4s
Predelay
40ms
Mix
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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