No. 0591976·classic-rock·4 blocks
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.
BostonSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (1968, P-90s — 1976 spec)
Pickups
P90
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Scholz homemade compressor/sustainer (prototype)
100W Marshall (cited as a 1959 Super Lead Plexi) + homemade Power Soak
Marshall 4x12 (close-mic'd)
Close mic on the 4x12 (exact model undocumented)
Scholz homemade compressor/sustainer (prototype)
compressor
100W Marshall (cited as a 1959 Super Lead Plexi) + homemade Power Soak
preamp
Volume
9
Treble
7
Middle
6
Bass
5
Presence
6
Engineer's note
File 059
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.
— Tom Scholz
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