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 · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Plexi 100 Jump
4x12 Greenback
Cry Baby
Digital Delay
Chorus
Plate Reverb
Graphic EQ
Studio Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
20s
Release
220s
Mix
45
Level
1dB
Plexi 100 Jump
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Gain
8
Bass
4
Mid
8
Treble
6
Presence
6
Master
6
Sag
5
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut110Hz
HighCut5400Hz
Level
0dB
Cry Baby
← Tychobrahe Parapedal
Mix
100
Level
0
Digital Delay
← Studio delay
Time
320ms
Feedback
18
Mix
18
Level
0
Chorus
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
25
Mix
25
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate
Decay
1.4s
Predelay
22ms
Mix
16
Level
0
Graphic EQ
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
5.5
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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