No. 1891981·metal·4 blocks
Wrathchild
Wrathchild kicks off side two of Killers with one of Iron Maiden's most menacing bass-and-guitar riffs. Dave Murray's tone is the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in a nutshell: his black 1957/63 Stratocaster loaded with a DiMarzio Super Distortion, an MXR Distortion+ shoving the front end, into a cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Lead and a Greenback 4x12.
KillersSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1957/63, 'Kossoff')
Pickups
HSH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Gate
LA Compressor
Yellow Drive
1959 SLP
4x12 Green 25
Room
Gate
← Noise gate
Threshold
-58dB
Decay
30s
LA Compressor
← Light tightening compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
5s
Release
150s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Yellow Drive
← MXR Distortion+ (front-end boost)
Drive
5
Tone
6
Level
7
1959 SLP
← Marshall Super Lead 50W (JMP, non-master)
Gain
7
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
Master
7
Sag
5
4x12 Green 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion Greenback)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Room
← Studio room ambience (Battery Studios)
Decay
0.6s
Predelay
12ms
Mix
12
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 189
Wrathchild kicks off side two of Killers with one of Iron Maiden's most menacing bass-and-guitar riffs. Dave Murray's tone is the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in a nutshell: his black 1957/63 Stratocaster loaded with a DiMarzio Super Distortion, an MXR Distortion+ shoving the front end, into a cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Lead and a Greenback 4x12.
— Dave Murray
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