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 · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Deluxe Comp
Brit Plexi Jump
4x12 Greenback 25
Optical Trem
Simple Delay
Room
Tilt
Noise Gate
← Gain-structure housekeeping
Threshold
-62dB
Decay
22s
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-26dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Knee
4dB
Attack
12s
Release
140s
Mix
35
Level
0dB
Brit Plexi Jump
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Drive
7.5
Bass
4
Mid
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5.5
Sag
4
Hum
4
Ripple
4
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut105Hz
HighCut5800Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Optical Trem
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
22
Mix
22
Level
0
Simple Delay
← Studio delay
LowCut260Hz
HighCut4000Hz
Time
240ms
Feedback
8
Mix
8
Level
0
Room
← Studio Ferber tracking-room ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
10
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
15ms
Level
0
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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