No. 0971976·classic-rock·5 blocks
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
The shimmering clean riff that drives Blue Öyster Cult's classic. Buck Dharma cut it not on his signature SG but on co-producer Murray Krugman's hollowbody Gibson ES-175, chosen for its warmer, woodier jangle, through a clean Music Man 410-65 combo at the Record Plant in New York. The shimmer comes from the hollowbody plus an EMT plate and a 15-ips tape delay tracked live — not a chorus pedal. Standard tuning, A-minor riff.
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Guitar
Gibson ES-175
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
15-ips Tape Delay (studio)
Music Man 410-65 (clean)
EMT Plate Reverb (Record Plant)
Music Man 4x10 (built-in)
Beyer M160 + Shure SM57 + Neumann U87 (room)
15-ips Tape Delay (studio)
delay
Time
90ms
Feedback
12
Mix
12
Music Man 410-65 (clean)
preamp
Volume
4
Treble
6
Bass
5
Bright
1
EMT Plate Reverb (Record Plant)
reverb
Decay
1.8s
Mix
22
Engineer's note
File 097
The shimmering clean riff that drives Blue Öyster Cult's classic. Buck Dharma cut it not on his signature SG but on co-producer Murray Krugman's hollowbody Gibson ES-175, chosen for its warmer, woodier jangle, through a clean Music Man 410-65 combo at the Record Plant in New York. The shimmer comes from the hollowbody plus an EMT plate and a 15-ips tape delay tracked live — not a chorus pedal. Standard tuning, A-minor riff.
— Buck Dharma
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