No. 1832007·post-grunge·6 blocks
Blackbird
The two-man solo Guitarist magazine voted the greatest guitar solo of all time in 2011. Myles Kennedy tracked the Blackbird solo on a PRS Modern Eagle he retired straight afterward, trading liquid lead lines with Mark Tremonti — Kennedy on a Mesa/Boogie Mark IV, Tremonti adding a Bogner Ecstasy for his leads over a Triple Rectifier rhythm. Singing, sustaining high-gain in Eb standard, lifted by a light phaser and a touch of delay. This is a lead voice, not a rhythm crunch: enough gain to hold notes forever, mids up so every bend cuts.
BlackbirdSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
PRS Modern Eagle
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Compressor
Green Scream
Search Rig Exchange for 'Mesa Mark IV' or 'Mark IV Lead'
Single Delay
Hall Reverb
Compressor
← Studio tracking compression
Intensity
5
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Green Scream
← Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS808)
Drive
3
Tone
6
Volume
7
Search Rig Exchange for 'Mesa Mark IV' or 'Mark IV Lead'
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IV
Gain
7
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
6
Presence
6
Single Delay
← Analog delay (short slap)
Time
350ms
Feedback
15
Mix
0.2
Hall Reverb
← Lead ambience
Decay
1.6s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
0.1
Engineer's note
File 183
The two-man solo Guitarist magazine voted the greatest guitar solo of all time in 2011. Myles Kennedy tracked the Blackbird solo on a PRS Modern Eagle he retired straight afterward, trading liquid lead lines with Mark Tremonti — Kennedy on a Mesa/Boogie Mark IV, Tremonti adding a Bogner Ecstasy for his leads over a Triple Rectifier rhythm. Singing, sustaining high-gain in Eb standard, lifted by a light phaser and a touch of delay. This is a lead voice, not a rhythm crunch: enough gain to hold notes forever, mids up so every bend cuts.
— Mark Tremonti
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