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 · 6 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Booster
Crunch
FX
Delay
Reverb
Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
6
Bottom
4
Tone
6.5
Level
7.5
Crunch
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
4
Volume
7
Bass
2.5
Middle
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
Master
7
FX
← Schulte Compact Phasing A
Rate
2Hz
Depth
3
Level
5
Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
260ms
Feedback
1
EffectLevel
10
Reverb
← Chateau d'Herouville room ambience
Time
9ms
PreDelay
18ms
Tone
4
EffectLevel
12
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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