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 · 6 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Hagström Viking
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (widely tabbed; not session-confirmed)
Light tracking compression
ProCo RAT
Laney GH100TI (preamp tubes swapped for less gain)
Laney 4x12 (Celestion Greenback)
Shure SM57
Light tracking compression
compressor
Peak Reduction
20
Gain
5
ProCo RAT
distortion
Distortion
5
Filter
6
Volume
6
Laney GH100TI (preamp tubes swapped for less gain)
preamp
Gain
6
Bass
5
Middle
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
8
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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