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 · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel (preamp/booster + echo)
Marshall Major (200W, modified)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Shure SM57
AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel (preamp/booster + echo)
boost
Input
8
Output
7
Echo
3
Marshall Major (200W, modified)
preamp
Presence
5
Bass
3
Middle
6.5
Treble
7
Volume
7
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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