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 · 6 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Booster
Crunch
FX
Delay
Reverb
Booster
← No booster on the record -- optional modern tightener
Drive
2
Bottom
3
Tone
6
Level
7
Crunch
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Gain
7.5
Volume
6
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
Master
6
FX
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
2
Level
5
Delay
← Studio delay
Time
240ms
Feedback
1
EffectLevel
8
Reverb
← Studio Ferber tracking-room ambience
Time
8ms
PreDelay
15ms
Tone
5
EffectLevel
10
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
Sources · Verified by
