No. 1712006·stoner-metal·4 blocks
Freya
The Sword's best-known song -- a galloping Sabbath-meets-Viking riff from 2006's Age of Winters that exploded after it landed in Guitar Hero II. J.D. Cronise and Kyle Shutt double-track the riff in C standard, two whole steps down, for a thick wall of mid-rich British crunch. Self-produced and cut DIY in Austin: per Shutt the guitars ran a Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master into a borrowed Laney AOR, while Cronise's defining live voice is a 1979 Gibson Explorer into a cranked Orange OR100.
Age of WintersSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
1979 Gibson Explorer E2 / Gibson Les Paul Custom
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-A#-D#-G-C) -- 2 whole steps down
Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master
Laney AOR 100 (Age of Winters) / Orange OR100 (live)
Orange 4x12 (Celestion Vintage 30)
Shure SM57 (assumed)
Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master
distortion
Drive
6
Tone
6
Level
7
Laney AOR 100 (Age of Winters) / Orange OR100 (live)
preamp
Gain
7
Bass
6
Middle
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
Engineer's note
File 171
The Sword's best-known song -- a galloping Sabbath-meets-Viking riff from 2006's Age of Winters that exploded after it landed in Guitar Hero II. J.D. Cronise and Kyle Shutt double-track the riff in C standard, two whole steps down, for a thick wall of mid-rich British crunch. Self-produced and cut DIY in Austin: per Shutt the guitars ran a Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master into a borrowed Laney AOR, while Cronise's defining live voice is a 1979 Gibson Explorer into a cranked Orange OR100.
— J.D. Cronise
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