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 · 8 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
PRS Modern Eagle
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Studio Comp
Scream 808
CA MkIV Lead
4x12 V30
Script Phaser
Simple Delay
Hall
Studio Comp
← Studio tracking compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
4:1
Attack
5s
Release
250s
Mix
60
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS808)
Drive
3
Tone
6
Level
7
CA MkIV Lead
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IV
Gain
7
Bass
4
Mid
7
Treble
6
Presence
6
Master
5
Sag
5
4x12 V30
← Mesa/Boogie 4x12 (V30)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut10000Hz
Level
0dB
Script Phaser
← Phaser (MXR-style)
Rate
3Hz
Depth
5
Mix
40
Simple Delay
← Analog delay (short slap)
Time
350ms
Feedback
15
Mix
18
Level
0
Hall
← Lead ambience
Decay
1.6s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
15
Level
0
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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