No. 2071980·metal·4 blocks
Children of the Sea
A lead tone that has to carry a melody rather than a riff, played on the same boosterless rig that made Heaven and Hell sound so different from the Ozzy albums. With the treble booster gone and the gain living inside the Dawk-modified Super Lead, Iommi's sustain comes from the amp's own preamp rather than from a box squashing the front end -- which is why the long held notes here bloom and decay instead of sitting on a fixed wall of fuzz.
Heaven and HellSignal path · input → output · 9 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Brit Plexi Jump
4x12 Greenback 25
Teardrop Wah
Simple Delay
Optical Trem
Plate
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
3:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
20s
Release
220s
Mix
45
Level
1dB
Brit Plexi Jump
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Drive
8
Bass
4
Mid
8
Treble
6
Presence
6
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
6
BiasX
5.5
Sag
5
Hum
4
Ripple
4
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut110Hz
HighCut5400Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Teardrop Wah
← Tychobrahe Parapedal
Mix
100
Level
0
Simple Delay
← Studio delay
LowCut240Hz
HighCut4200Hz
Time
320ms
Feedback
18
Mix
18
Level
0
Optical Trem
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
25
Mix
25
Level
0
Plate
← Studio plate
LowCut220Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
16
Decay
1.4s
Predelay
22ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
900Hz
Level
1
Engineer's note
File 207
A lead tone that has to carry a melody rather than a riff, played on the same boosterless rig that made Heaven and Hell sound so different from the Ozzy albums. With the treble booster gone and the gain living inside the Dawk-modified Super Lead, Iommi's sustain comes from the amp's own preamp rather than from a box squashing the front end -- which is why the long held notes here bloom and decay instead of sitting on a fixed wall of fuzz.
— Tony Iommi
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