No. 1752011·hard-rock·5 blocks
Hisingen Blues
The fast, hard title track from Graveyard's 2011 breakthrough — vintage Swedish hard rock cut 100% analog to tape by Don Alsterberg at Don Pierre Studios, Gothenburg. Joakim Nilsson tracked it on a Hagström Viking (his older Hagström had been stolen) into a Laney GH100TI run with its preamp tubes swapped for less gain, with a ProCo RAT as the one studio dirt pedal — 'mostly we just play with the amps.' The result is a thick, mid-rich British crunch that owes more to a cranked Plexi than to any fuzz.
Hisingen BluesSignal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Hagström Viking
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (widely tabbed; not session-confirmed)
Deluxe Comp
Vermin Dist
Clean Boost
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Spring
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
50s
Release
200s
Mix
40
Level
0dB
Vermin Dist
← ProCo RAT
Gain
5
Tone
6
Level
6
Clean Boost
← MXR Micro Amp (solo boost)
Gain
6
Level
6
Brit Plexi Brt
← Laney GH100TI (tubes swapped for less gain)
Drive
6
Bass
5
Mid
7
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
6
Master
8
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Laney/Marshall 4x12 (Greenback)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7500Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Room / tape ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
14
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
15ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Global brightness EQ
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 175
The fast, hard title track from Graveyard's 2011 breakthrough — vintage Swedish hard rock cut 100% analog to tape by Don Alsterberg at Don Pierre Studios, Gothenburg. Joakim Nilsson tracked it on a Hagström Viking (his older Hagström had been stolen) into a Laney GH100TI run with its preamp tubes swapped for less gain, with a ProCo RAT as the one studio dirt pedal — 'mostly we just play with the amps.' The result is a thick, mid-rich British crunch that owes more to a cranked Plexi than to any fuzz.
— Joakim Nilsson
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