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 · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959 Sunburst)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Tweed Deluxe
1x12 Tweed
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Tilt EQ
Studio Comp
← Light parallel compression
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Attack
0.1s
Release
0.2s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
Tweed Deluxe
← Fender Tweed Deluxe (narrow panel)
Gain
7.5
Bass
4
Mid
5.5
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
5.5
Sag
6.5
1x12 Tweed
← Tweed Deluxe 1x12 with Jensen P12R
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7500Hz
Level
0dB
Tape Delay
← Maestro Echoplex EP-3
Time
310ms
Feedback
20
Mix
18
Level
0
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate
Decay
1.8s
Predelay
30ms
Mix
18
Level
0
Tilt EQ
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
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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