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 · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Treble Booster
Brown
Tape Echo
Plate
Treble Booster
← Sola Sound Tone Bender / Rangemaster
Drive
4
Bottom
4
Tone
7
Level
7
Brown
← Marshall Super Lead 1959
Gain
9
Volume
7
Bass
6
Middle
8
Treble
7
Presence
7
Tape Echo
← Echoplex EP-3 (slapback)
Time
130ms
Feedback
10
EffectLevel
18
Plate
← Studio plate (Olympic Studios EMT 140)
Time
4ms
PreDelay
30ms
Tone
5
EffectLevel
22
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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