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 · 6 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Compressor
Treble Booster
Search Rig Exchange for 'Plexi'
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Compressor
← Studio compressor (light parallel)
Intensity
3
Attack
0.0s
Volume
3
Treble Booster
← Sola Sound Tone Bender / Rangemaster
Drive
4
Tone
7
Volume
7
Search Rig Exchange for 'Plexi'
← Marshall Super Lead 1959
Gain
9
Bass
6
Middle
8
Treble
7
Presence
7
Tape Delay
← Echoplex EP-3 (slapback)
Time
130ms
Feedback
10
Mix
18
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate (Olympic Studios EMT 140)
Decay
1.8s
Predelay
30ms
Mix
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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