No. 1981976·hard-rock·4 blocks
Stargazer
Blackmore's most ambitious solo, cut at Musicland in Munich in February 1976 with Martin Birch and 28 members of the Munich Philharmonic. The rig is deceptively simple: a scalloped Olympic-white Strat into an AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel used as a preamp and echo, then into a 200-watt Marshall Major. That tape preamp is the secret -- it boosts and saturates before the amp, which is how a Strat sustains like that over two chords of A minor and G.
RisingSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, Olympic white)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Booster
Crunch
Delay
Reverb
Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
6.5
Bottom
5
Tone
6
Level
7.5
Crunch
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
4.5
Volume
7
Bass
2.5
Middle
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
Master
7
Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
320ms
Feedback
2
EffectLevel
18
Reverb
← Musicland studio ambience
Time
18ms
PreDelay
30ms
Tone
4
EffectLevel
20
Engineer's note
File 198
Blackmore's most ambitious solo, cut at Musicland in Munich in February 1976 with Martin Birch and 28 members of the Munich Philharmonic. The rig is deceptively simple: a scalloped Olympic-white Strat into an AIWA TP-1011 reel-to-reel used as a preamp and echo, then into a 200-watt Marshall Major. That tape preamp is the secret -- it boosts and saturates before the amp, which is how a Strat sustains like that over two chords of A minor and G.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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