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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk Stillwell mod, extra gain stage + master volume)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Shure SM57
Studio delay
Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk Stillwell mod, extra gain stage + master volume)
preamp
Presence
6
Bass
4
Middle
8
Treble
6
Preamp Volume
8
Master
7
Studio delay
delay · FX loop
Time
320ms
Repeats
2
Mix
18
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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