No. 0511976·classic-rock·4 blocks
Hotel California
One of the most-studied lead tones in rock. Don Felder cut the famous Hotel California outro solo with his 1959 Les Paul Standard plugged straight into a narrow-panel mid-50s Fender Tweed Deluxe, cranked into edge-of-breakup territory, with a Maestro Echoplex in the loop for the tape-delay swell. Felder and Walsh trade twin-harmony lines, but the lead voice is Felder's PAF-on-Tweed-combo — fat, singing, slightly breaking up at the top of every note.
Hotel CaliforniaSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959 Sunburst)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Search Rig Exchange for 'Tweed Deluxe' or '5E3' or 'Hotel California'
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Compressor
← Light parallel compression
Sustain
4
Tone
5
Volume
5
Search Rig Exchange for 'Tweed Deluxe' or '5E3' or 'Hotel California'
← Fender Tweed Deluxe (narrow panel)
Gain
7
Bass
4
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Tape Delay
← Maestro Echoplex EP-3
Time
310ms
Feedback
20
Mix
18
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate
Decay
1.8s
Predelay
30ms
Mix
18
Engineer's note
File 051
One of the most-studied lead tones in rock. Don Felder cut the famous Hotel California outro solo with his 1959 Les Paul Standard plugged straight into a narrow-panel mid-50s Fender Tweed Deluxe, cranked into edge-of-breakup territory, with a Maestro Echoplex in the loop for the tape-delay swell. Felder and Walsh trade twin-harmony lines, but the lead voice is Felder's PAF-on-Tweed-combo — fat, singing, slightly breaking up at the top of every note.
— Don Felder
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