No. 2071980·metal·4 blocks

Children of the Sea

A lead tone that has to carry a melody rather than a riff, played on the same boosterless rig that made Heaven and Hell sound so different from the Ozzy albums. With the treble booster gone and the gain living inside the Dawk-modified Super Lead, Iommi's sustain comes from the amp's own preamp rather than from a box squashing the front end -- which is why the long held notes here bloom and decay instead of sitting on a fixed wall of fuzz.

Heaven and Hell coverHeaven and Hell
Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 9 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson SG Special ('Monkey', left-handed, cherry red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Brit Plexi Jump
4x12 Greenback 25
Teardrop Wah
Simple Delay
Optical Trem
Plate
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression
Dynamics
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
3:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
20ms
Release
220ms
Mix
45
Level
1dB
Brit Plexi Jump
← Marshall 1959 Super Lead (Dawk-modified)
Amp
Drive
8
Bass
4
Mid
8
Treble
6
Presence
6
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
6
BiasX
5.5
Sag
5
Hum
4
Ripple
4
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Cab
LowCut110Hz
HighCut5400Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Teardrop Wah
← Tychobrahe Parapedal
Wah
Mix
100
Level
0
Simple Delay
← Studio delay
Delay
LowCut240Hz
HighCut4200Hz
Time
320ms
Feedback
18
Mix
18
Level
0
Optical Trem
← Chorus (album-level effect)
Modulation
Rate
0.4Hz
Depth
25
Mix
25
Level
0
Plate
← Studio plate
Reverb
LowCut220Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
16
Decay
1.4s
Predelay
22ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Global tilt EQ
EQ
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
900Hz
Level
1

What we checked

Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works

Preset files — 0 of 3 complete
  • Helix 1 block missing from the file
    Which ones

    Not in the file: Teardrop Wah. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.

  • Quad Cortex 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Plexi 100 Jump, 4x12 Greenback, Cry Baby, Chorus. 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 2 blocks missing from the file; 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Not in the file: Delay, Reverb. The recipe calls for these blocks, but we have no verified model ID for them on this platform, so the preset is written without them. Add them by hand using the settings above.

    Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Booster, FX, Delay, 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.

Helix DSP
63.6% of one chip — fits
Sources
4 cited, 2 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Not yet rated — This recipe predates the attribution-confidence field and hasn't been reviewed for it.
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.
The mic in this chain

Shure SM57

Still made, still the studio default. The cheapest part of this chain to get right.

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