Firth of Fifth
Progressive rock's most-cited guitar solo, and it is built on restraint rather than gain: a 1957 Les Paul Goldtop on the neck pickup, a period fuzz, and an amp set so the notes simply refuse to decay. Hackett is direct about the guitar -- 'It's the one I used on Selling England By The Pound - on Firth Of Fifth' -- and the whole performance is an argument for playing fewer notes and holding each one longer.
Selling England by the Pound
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 0 of 3 complete
- Helix 1 block missing from the file
Which ones
Not in the file: Vol Pedal. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.
- Quad Cortex 6 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Volume Pedal, Studio Comp, Germanium Fuzz, Brit Watt 100, 4x12 Hiwatt Fane, Hall Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 1 block missing from the file; 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Not in the file: Hall. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.
Replaced with a stand-in: Clean, Booster, Delay, Hall. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
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