No. 0771975·hard-rock·5 blocks
Sweet Emotion
The dreamy, vocal-like intro that 'talks' the title — a guitar fed through a Kustom 'The Bag' talk box, with Perry mouthing the vowels into a vocal mic. Underneath is a Strat into a hot Ampeg V-2, with an early Eventide DDL adding short stereo slap. The descending main riff hits clean and mean. The signature is the talk box plus the studio's tight ambience, not high gain.
Toys in the AtticSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (early 1970s)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Crunch
Delay
Room
Crunch
← Ampeg V-2 (hot)
Gain
5
Volume
6
Bass
4
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
Delay
← Eventide DDL (short slap)
Time
90ms
Feedback
10
EffectLevel
18
Room
← Record Plant room
Time
2ms
PreDelay
20ms
Tone
5
EffectLevel
10
Engineer's note
File 077
The dreamy, vocal-like intro that 'talks' the title — a guitar fed through a Kustom 'The Bag' talk box, with Perry mouthing the vowels into a vocal mic. Underneath is a Strat into a hot Ampeg V-2, with an early Eventide DDL adding short stereo slap. The descending main riff hits clean and mean. The signature is the talk box plus the studio's tight ambience, not high gain.
— Joe Perry
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