No. 1752011·hard-rock·5 blocks
Hisingen Blues
The fast, hard title track from Graveyard's 2011 breakthrough — vintage Swedish hard rock cut 100% analog to tape by Don Alsterberg at Don Pierre Studios, Gothenburg. Joakim Nilsson tracked it on a Hagström Viking (his older Hagström had been stolen) into a Laney GH100TI run with its preamp tubes swapped for less gain, with a ProCo RAT as the one studio dirt pedal — 'mostly we just play with the amps.' The result is a thick, mid-rich British crunch that owes more to a cranked Plexi than to any fuzz.
Hisingen BluesSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Hagström Viking
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (widely tabbed; not session-confirmed)
Studio Comp
Rat Dist
Brit Plexi 100
4x12 Greenback
Spring Reverb
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
50s
Release
200s
Mix
0.4
Level
0dB
Rat Dist
← ProCo RAT
Drive
5
Tone
6
Level
6
Brit Plexi 100
← Laney GH100TI (tubes swapped for less gain)
Drive
6
Bass
5
Mid
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
MV
6
4x12 Greenback
← Laney/Marshall 4x12 (Greenback)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7500Hz
Level
0dB
Spring Reverb
← Room / tape ambience
Mix
0.1
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
15ms
Filter Tilt
← Global brightness EQ
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 175
The fast, hard title track from Graveyard's 2011 breakthrough — vintage Swedish hard rock cut 100% analog to tape by Don Alsterberg at Don Pierre Studios, Gothenburg. Joakim Nilsson tracked it on a Hagström Viking (his older Hagström had been stolen) into a Laney GH100TI run with its preamp tubes swapped for less gain, with a ProCo RAT as the one studio dirt pedal — 'mostly we just play with the amps.' The result is a thick, mid-rich British crunch that owes more to a cranked Plexi than to any fuzz.
— Joakim Nilsson
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