More Than a Feeling
Tom Scholz built More Than a Feeling's wall of guitar in his Watertown basement on gear he made himself. A 1968 Les Paul Goldtop with P-90s ran into a 100W Marshall (widely cited as a 1959 Super Lead Plexi) cranked into one of his homemade prototype Power Soak attenuators, plus a homemade compressor/sustainer and outboard EQ. The Rockman is a red herring — it didn't exist until 1982; the 1976 record is power-soaked Marshall plus DIY compression, heavily multi-tracked. The result is ultra-sustained, glassy, and impossibly layered.
Boston
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, 4x12 Greenback, Plate. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Brown, Booster, Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
