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 · 5 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Hagström Viking
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (widely tabbed; not session-confirmed)
Compressor
Plus DS
Search Rig Exchange for 'Laney GH100TI' or 'Marshall Plexi'
Spring Reverb
Compressor
← Light tracking compression
Intensity
3
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Plus DS
← ProCo RAT
Drive
5
Tone
6
Volume
6
Search Rig Exchange for 'Laney GH100TI' or 'Marshall Plexi'
← Laney GH100TI (lower gain)
Gain
6
Bass
5
Middle
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
Spring Reverb
← Room / tape ambience
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
15ms
Mix
14
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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