No. 1011984·metal·4 blocks
Aces High
The opening salvo of Powerslave, faster and more frantic than Run to the Hills. Dave Murray drove his black 'Kossoff' Stratocaster — loaded with a hot DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker — into a cranked Marshall, while Adrian Smith doubled the harmonized lines. Smith summed up the whole album's guitar sound himself: 'all I paired them with was a 100-watt Marshall and maybe a Tube Screamer.' Producer Martin Birch tracked it at Compass Point in the Bahamas. Standard tuning; the gallop is in the picking hand.
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Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (Dave Murray 'Kossoff' Strat)
Pickups
HSH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Green Scream
Search Rig Exchange for 'JCM800 2203' or 'Marshall 100W'
Plate Reverb
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
5dB
Volume
0
Green Scream
← Ibanez Tube Screamer (Smith)
Drive
0.3
Tone
0.6
Volume
0.7
Search Rig Exchange for 'JCM800 2203' or 'Marshall 100W'
← Marshall 100W (JCM800 2203)
Gain
6.5
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
7
Presence
6.5
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate (light)
Decay
1.1s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
0.1
Engineer's note
File 101
The opening salvo of Powerslave, faster and more frantic than Run to the Hills. Dave Murray drove his black 'Kossoff' Stratocaster — loaded with a hot DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker — into a cranked Marshall, while Adrian Smith doubled the harmonized lines. Smith summed up the whole album's guitar sound himself: 'all I paired them with was a 100-watt Marshall and maybe a Tube Screamer.' Producer Martin Birch tracked it at Compass Point in the Bahamas. Standard tuning; the gallop is in the picking hand.
— Dave Murray
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