No. 0321971·hard-rock·3 blocks
Stairway to Heaven
The arpeggiated intro to Stairway to Heaven uses a Telecaster through a small Supro amp for a warm, clean tone with subtle compression. As the song builds, the tone gradually shifts from clean fingerpicking to heavier strumming. The famous solo section uses a Les Paul through a cranked Marshall for a completely different character — singing sustain with aggressive attack.
Led Zeppelin IVSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Telecaster (1959)
Pickups
SS
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Soup Pro
1x12 Field Coil
Spring
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compressor
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
0.0s
Release
0.2s
Mix
0.6
Level
0dB
Soup Pro
← Supro Thunderbolt
Drive
0.3
Bass
0.5
Mid
0.6
Treble
0.6
Presence
0.5
ChVol
0.5
Master
1
Bias
0.6
BiasX
0.5
Sag
0.6
Hum
0.5
Ripple
0.5
1x12 Field Coil
← Supro 1x15
LowCut19.9Hz
HighCut20100Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Tracking-room ambience (Headley Grange)
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
0.2
Decay
1s
Predelay
0.0ms
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 032
The arpeggiated intro to Stairway to Heaven uses a Telecaster through a small Supro amp for a warm, clean tone with subtle compression. As the song builds, the tone gradually shifts from clean fingerpicking to heavier strumming. The famous solo section uses a Les Paul through a cranked Marshall for a completely different character — singing sustain with aggressive attack.
— Jimmy Page
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