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 · 9 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
Phaser
Tape Delay
Room Reverb
Graphic EQ
Studio Comp
← Tape-deck compression / studio comp
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
5s
Release
180s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Tape Preamp Boost
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
6
Tone
6.5
Level
7.5
Plexi 100
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
4.5
Bass
2.5
Mid
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
Master
7
Sag
5.5
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut100Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Phaser
← Schulte Compact Phasing A
Rate
0.2Hz
Depth
30
Mix
30
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
260ms
Feedback
12
Mix
10
Level
0
Room Reverb
← Chateau d'Herouville room ambience
Decay
0.9s
Predelay
18ms
Mix
12
Level
0
Graphic EQ
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
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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