No. 1991978·hard-rock·5 blocks
Kill the King
Rainbow's fastest riff, and Blackmore's favorite guitar of the period playing it: the 1974 sunburst Strat with a fat scalloped neck and slightly overwound single-coils. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was cut at the Chateau d'Herouville outside Paris with Martin Birch, still running the AIWA TP-1011 tape deck as a front-end boost into a modified Marshall Major. At this tempo the amp has to stay tight, so the dirt sits in the tape preamp and the Major keeps its headroom.
Long Live Rock 'n' RollSignal path · input → output · 10 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Kinky Boost
Stupor OD
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Script Mod Phase
Transistor Tape
Room
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
25s
Release
180s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Kinky Boost
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Gain
6
Tone
6.5
Level
7.5
Stupor OD
← Extra gain stage (alternate)
Gain
4
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Drive
4.5
Bass
2.5
Mid
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
ChVol
7
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut100Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Script Mod Phase
← Schulte Compact Phasing A
Rate
0.2Hz
Depth
30
Mix
30
Level
0
Transistor Tape
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
LowCut240Hz
HighCut3500Hz
Time
260ms
Feedback
12
Mix
10
Level
0
Room
← Chateau d'Herouville room ambience
LowCut180Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Mix
12
Decay
0.9s
Predelay
18ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 199
Rainbow's fastest riff, and Blackmore's favorite guitar of the period playing it: the 1974 sunburst Strat with a fat scalloped neck and slightly overwound single-coils. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was cut at the Chateau d'Herouville outside Paris with Martin Birch, still running the AIWA TP-1011 tape deck as a front-end boost into a modified Marshall Major. At this tempo the amp has to stay tight, so the dirt sits in the tape preamp and the Major keeps its headroom.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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