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 · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1959)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Treble Boost
Brit Plexi 100 Bright
4x12 Green 25
Tape Delay
Plate Reverb
Tilt EQ
Studio Comp
← Studio compressor (light parallel)
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
50
Level
3dB
Treble Boost
← Sola Sound Tone Bender / Rangemaster
Drive
4
Tone
7
Level
7
Brit Plexi 100 Bright
← Marshall Super Lead 1959
Gain
9
Bass
6
Mid
8
Treble
7
Presence
7
Master
8
4x12 Green 25
← Marshall 4x12 Greenback
LowCut80Hz
HighCut9000Hz
Level
0dB
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
Level
0
Tilt EQ
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
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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