No. 2031980·metal·4 blocks
Neon Knights
The fastest thing Sabbath ever opened an album with, and the first Iommi tone that does not run a treble booster. John 'Dawk' Stillwell rebuilt six Marshall 1959 Super Leads with an extra gain stage for the Heaven and Hell sessions -- 'he'd done away with the treble booster I had forever,' as Iommi put it -- so the gain finally lives inside the amp instead of in a box in front of it. At this tempo that matters: the boost is gone and the note separation comes back.
Heaven and HellSignal path · input → output · 9 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Gate/Expander
Studio Comp
Plexi 100W Jump
4x12 Greenback
Chorus
Digital Delay
Room
Filter Tilt
Gate/Expander
← Gain-structure housekeeping
Threshold
-62dB
Ratio
4:1
Release
22s
Studio Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-26dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Attack
12s
Release
140s
Mix
0.3
Level
0dB
Plexi 100W Jump
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Drive
7.5
Bass
4
Mid
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
MV
6
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut105Hz
HighCut5800Hz
Level
0dB
Chorus
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
0.2
Mix
0.2
Digital Delay
← Studio delay
Time
240ms
Feedback
0.1
Mix
0.1
Room
← Studio Ferber tracking-room ambience
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
15ms
Filter Tilt
← Global tilt EQ
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 203
The fastest thing Sabbath ever opened an album with, and the first Iommi tone that does not run a treble booster. John 'Dawk' Stillwell rebuilt six Marshall 1959 Super Leads with an extra gain stage for the Heaven and Hell sessions -- 'he'd done away with the treble booster I had forever,' as Iommi put it -- so the gain finally lives inside the amp instead of in a box in front of it. At this tempo that matters: the boost is gone and the note separation comes back.
— Tony Iommi
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