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.
PowerslaveSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (Dave Murray 'Kossoff' Strat)
Pickups
HSH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Ibanez Tube Screamer (Smith)
Marshall 100W (Super Lead / JCM800 2203)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion Greenbacks)
Shure SM57
Ibanez Tube Screamer (Smith)
overdrive
Drive
3
Tone
6
Level
7
Marshall 100W (Super Lead / JCM800 2203)
preamp
Gain
7
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
7
Presence
7
Master
6
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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