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 · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
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
Gate
Studio Comp
Vermin Dist
Brit 2203
2x12 Orange V30
Room Reverb
Gate
← Down-tuned hum control
Threshold
-60dB
Decay
35s
Studio Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
40s
Release
200s
Mix
30
Level
0dB
Vermin Dist
← Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master
Drive
5.5
Tone
6
Level
6
Brit 2203
← Laney AOR 100 / Orange OR100
Gain
7
Bass
6
Mid
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
7
Sag
5
2x12 Orange V30
← Orange 4x12 (V30)
LowCut95Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Room Reverb
← DIY tracking-room ambience
Decay
1.1s
Predelay
12ms
Mix
10
Level
0
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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