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 · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, sunburst)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Treble Booster
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Plexi 200W clean'
Tape Delay
Room Reverb
Compressor
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Intensity
4
Attack
0.0s
Volume
0
Treble Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
6
Tone
6.5
Volume
7.5
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Plexi 200W clean'
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
4.5
Bass
2.5
Middle
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
260ms
Feedback
12
Mix
10
Room Reverb
← Chateau d'Herouville room ambience
Decay
0.9s
Predelay
18ms
Mix
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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