No. 1021958·rock-and-roll·4 blocks
Johnny B. Goode
The double-stop intro that launched a thousand bands — the founding statement of rock 'n' roll lead guitar. Cut at Chess Studios in Chicago in January 1958, Chuck Berry's tone is a thinline Gibson ES-350T strung with flatwounds, driven into a cranked Fender tweed combo at the edge of breakup. There are no pedals; the space and slap come entirely from Chess's basement echo chamber. Standard tuning, played in B♭ — the bite is in the flatwound 'twop' and the right-hand attack.
Chuck Berry Is on TopSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson ES-350T (1957)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Deluxe Comp
Minotaur
Tweed Blues Nrm
4x10 Tweed P10R
Chamber
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Studio level control (flatwound evenness)
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
40s
Release
250s
Mix
60
Level
0dB
Minotaur
← Clean boost (push the tweed)
Gain
1.5
Tone
5.5
Level
6
Tweed Blues Nrm
← Fender tweed combo (cranked)
Drive
5.5
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6.5
Presence
5.5
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x10 Tweed P10R
← Tweed combo speaker
LowCut80Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Chamber
← Chess basement echo chamber
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
16
Decay
0.6s
Predelay
15ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.6
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 102
The double-stop intro that launched a thousand bands — the founding statement of rock 'n' roll lead guitar. Cut at Chess Studios in Chicago in January 1958, Chuck Berry's tone is a thinline Gibson ES-350T strung with flatwounds, driven into a cranked Fender tweed combo at the edge of breakup. There are no pedals; the space and slap come entirely from Chess's basement echo chamber. Standard tuning, played in B♭ — the bite is in the flatwound 'twop' and the right-hand attack.
— Chuck Berry
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