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 · 7 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Compressor
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall 1959 Super Lead jumped' or 'Plexi modded'
Chorus
Single Delay
Room Reverb
Noise Gate
← Gain-structure housekeeping
Threshold
-62dB
Decay
22s
Compressor
← Studio compression
Intensity
3
Attack
0.0s
Volume
0
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall 1959 Super Lead jumped' or 'Plexi modded'
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Gain
7.5
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
Chorus
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
22
Mix
22
Single Delay
← Studio delay
Time
240ms
Feedback
8
Mix
8
Room Reverb
← Studio Ferber tracking-room ambience
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
15ms
Mix
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
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