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.
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Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1974, Olympic white)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Treble Booster
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Marshall Super Lead 200W'
Tape Delay
Chamber Reverb
Compressor
← Studio compression
Intensity
3
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Treble Booster
← AIWA TP-1011 tape preamp (boost stage)
Drive
6.5
Tone
6
Volume
7.5
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall Major' or 'Marshall Super Lead 200W'
← Marshall Major 200W (modified)
Gain
5
Bass
2.5
Middle
6
Treble
8
Presence
6
Tape Delay
← AIWA TP-1011 echo section
Time
320ms
Feedback
22
Mix
18
Chamber Reverb
← Musicland studio ambience
Decay
1.8s
Predelay
30ms
Mix
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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