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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk Stillwell mod, extra gain stage + master volume)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Shure SM57
Studio delay
Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk Stillwell mod, extra gain stage + master volume)
preamp
Presence
6
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
7
Preamp Volume
8
Master
6
Studio delay
delay · FX loop
Time
240ms
Repeats
1
Mix
8
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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