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 · 8 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
FAS Treble Boost
Plexi 100W High
4x12 Green 25W
Tape Delay
Plate
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Studio compressor (light parallel)
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
0.5
Level
3dB
FAS Treble Boost
← Sola Sound Tone Bender / Rangemaster
Drive
4
Tone
7
Level
7
Plexi 100W High
← Marshall Super Lead 1959
Drive
9
Bass
6
Mid
8
Treble
7
Presence
7
MV
8
4x12 Green 25W
← Marshall 4x12 Greenback
LowCut80Hz
HighCut9000Hz
Level
0dB
Tape Delay
← Echoplex EP-3 (slapback)
Time
130ms
Feedback
10
Mix
0.2
Plate
← Studio plate (Olympic Studios EMT 140)
Mix
0.2
Decay
1.8s
Predelay
30ms
Filter 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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