Peace of Mind
Every lead on Boston's first album except two is Tom Scholz, and he has said so himself. Peace of Mind was a 1974 basement demo he re-cut almost note for note in his Watertown basement. His own description of the rig is short: a Gold Top Les Paul into a Marshall head turned up and brought down to a sane level by his prototype Power Soak, a Cry Baby wah used as an EQ, a Maestro Echoplex in front of the amp, and an Electro-Voice RE16 on the cab. Nothing went direct.
Boston
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Wah 846, Brit Plexi 100, 4x12 Greenback. 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 replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Lead, 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.
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.
