No. 0311969·hard-rock·3 blocks
Whole Lotta Love
The grinding, heavy riff tone that opens Whole Lotta Love. Jimmy Page's Les Paul through a cranked Marshall Super Lead produces a thick, aggressive overdrive with singing sustain. The riff is played in standard tuning with the neck pickup for extra fatness, then the solo sections use the bridge pickup for a more cutting tone. Page also used a theremin and backwards echo for the psychedelic middle section.
Led Zeppelin IISignal path · input → output · 10 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Kinky Boost
Minotaur
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Transistor Tape
Dynamic Plate
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compressor
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
50
Level
3dB
Kinky Boost
← Treble booster (Tonebender / Rangemaster era)
Drive
4
Bright
1
Boost
7
Minotaur
← Klon Centaur (modern alt)
Gain
3
Tone
5.5
Level
7
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Super Lead 1959 (Plexi)
Drive
8.5
Bass
6
Mid
8
Treble
7
Presence
7
ChVol
8
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 with Greenback 25s
LowCut19.9Hz
HighCut20100Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Transistor Tape
← Echoplex EP-3 (slapback)
Time
130ms
Feedback
10
Mix
18
WowFlutter
0.3
Headroom
0.2
Spread
0.3
Scale
1
SyncSelect1
0
Level
0
Dynamic Plate
← Studio plate (Olympic Studios EMT 140)
LowCut130Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Mix
22
Decay
1.8s
Level
0
PreDelay
30ms
BassFreq
100
BassBoost
0
VarDelayAmpl
0.6
Damping
4200
MatrFreq
0.3
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 031
The grinding, heavy riff tone that opens Whole Lotta Love. Jimmy Page's Les Paul through a cranked Marshall Super Lead produces a thick, aggressive overdrive with singing sustain. The riff is played in standard tuning with the neck pickup for extra fatness, then the solo sections use the bridge pickup for a more cutting tone. Page also used a theremin and backwards echo for the psychedelic middle section.
— Jimmy Page
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