No. 1941982·metal·4 blocks

22 Acacia Avenue

22 Acacia Avenue is peak Number-of-the-Beast twin guitar -- Dave Murray's humbucker-loaded 'Kossoff' Strat and Adrian Smith's Ibanez Destroyer, both into cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Leads, hard-panned and double-tracked by Martin Birch. This is where Murray's MXR Distortion+ enters the picture, tightening and thickening the Plexi for the record's mid-forward NWOBHM crunch.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster 'Kossoff' (1963 body / 1957 neck -- Dave Murray)
Pickups
HSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Compressor
Green Scream
Search Rig Exchange for '50W Plexi Super Lead'
Plate Reverb
Compressor
← Studio compressor
Dynamics
Intensity
3
Attack
0.0s
Volume
2
Green Scream
← MXR Distortion+ (Murray)
Distortion
Drive
5
Tone
6
Volume
6
Search Rig Exchange for '50W Plexi Super Lead'
← Marshall Super Lead 50W (non-master)
Reverb
Gain
7
Bass
5
Middle
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
Plate Reverb
← Battery Studios plate (short)
Reverb
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
12ms
Mix
12

Engineer's note

File 194
22 Acacia Avenue is peak Number-of-the-Beast twin guitar -- Dave Murray's humbucker-loaded 'Kossoff' Strat and Adrian Smith's Ibanez Destroyer, both into cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Leads, hard-panned and double-tracked by Martin Birch. This is where Murray's MXR Distortion+ enters the picture, tightening and thickening the Plexi for the record's mid-forward NWOBHM crunch.
Dave Murray

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