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 · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Tape Preamp Boost
Plexi 100
4x12 Greenback
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Graphic EQ
Studio Comp
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
12s
Release
350s
Mix
35
Level
0dB
Tape Preamp Boost
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
7
Tone
5.5
Level
7.5
Plexi 100
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
5.5
Bass
3
Mid
6.5
Treble
7
Presence
5
Master
7
Sag
6.5
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut110Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Level
0dB
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
380ms
Feedback
28
Mix
22
Level
0
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate on the solo
Decay
2.4s
Predelay
40ms
Mix
24
Level
0
Graphic EQ
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
4.4
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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