No. 0741968·blues-rock·3 blocks
Crossroads
Cream's definitive live moment, cut at Winterland in March 1968 and released on Wheels of Fire. Eric Clapton's 1964 Gibson SG 'The Fool' ran straight into cranked 100-watt Marshall Super Lead stacks — no pedals at all. On the bridge pickup the amps sing with biting, vocal sustain, the opposite of his rolled-off 'woman tone.' The solo is improvised over a fast blues form; the tone is all guitar, hands, and cranked Plexi.
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Guitar
Gibson SG Standard 'The Fool' (1964)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Ganymede
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Guitar volume control
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio/FRFR compression
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
80s
Release
300s
Mix
30
Level
0dB
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Super Lead 100 (1959)
Drive
7.2
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
7
Master
10
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 1960 4x12 (Celestion)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut9500Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Ganymede
← Winterland room ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Mix
15
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 074
Cream's definitive live moment, cut at Winterland in March 1968 and released on Wheels of Fire. Eric Clapton's 1964 Gibson SG 'The Fool' ran straight into cranked 100-watt Marshall Super Lead stacks — no pedals at all. On the bridge pickup the amps sing with biting, vocal sustain, the opposite of his rolled-off 'woman tone.' The solo is improvised over a fast blues form; the tone is all guitar, hands, and cranked Plexi.
— Eric Clapton
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