No. 1891981·metal·4 blocks
Wrathchild
Wrathchild kicks off side two of Killers with one of Iron Maiden's most menacing bass-and-guitar riffs. Dave Murray's tone is the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in a nutshell: his black 1957/63 Stratocaster loaded with a DiMarzio Super Distortion, an MXR Distortion+ shoving the front end, into a cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Lead and a Greenback 4x12.
KillersSignal path · input → output · 9 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1957/63, 'Kossoff')
Pickups
HSH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Noise Gate
Deluxe Comp
Vermin Dist
Brit Plexi Brt
4x12 Greenback 25
Room
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Noise Gate
← Noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
-58dB
Decay
0.3s
Deluxe Comp
← Light tightening compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
45s
Release
300s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Vermin Dist
← MXR Distortion+ (front-end boost)
Gain
5
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Super Lead 50W (JMP, non-master)
Drive
7
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
5.5
Master
10
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion Greenback)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Room
← Studio room ambience (Battery Studios)
LowCut180Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
12
Decay
0.6s
Predelay
12ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 189
Wrathchild kicks off side two of Killers with one of Iron Maiden's most menacing bass-and-guitar riffs. Dave Murray's tone is the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in a nutshell: his black 1957/63 Stratocaster loaded with a DiMarzio Super Distortion, an MXR Distortion+ shoving the front end, into a cranked 50-watt Marshall Super Lead and a Greenback 4x12.
— Dave Murray
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