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Post subject: Please help me with amp settings for a classic Led Zeppelin.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:52 pm
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Will you guys please help me I am a Ledhead and the tone I am looking for is the the first 2 albums by them.


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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:06 pm
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These are the settings I use when we play "Whole Lotta Love."

Gain: 7
Treble: 3
Mid: 6
Bass: 7
Reverb: 5
And I use an Overdrive pedal, not a distortion pedal. Even with the violin bow these setting work for me.

Hope this helps you Austin1.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:18 pm
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As confirmed in the 1998 book "getting great guitar sound", the tone on Led Zeppelin first 2 albums were achieve with a Fender Telecaster through a small Supro amp turned way loud. When you listen to these albums with head phones, you will notice that on most songs, there is actually one track on one side recorded with what indeed is a cranked amp (more clean to overdrive responsiveness) while the other guitar track on the other side is recorded with a fuzz- he's been reported to use a Vox Tone Bender Fuzz Pedal, but even a Fuzz face would do.

So, with one track with cranked tube amp and the other one with fuzz pedal, it makes it hard to really nail his tone on Led's first two records. However, a telecaster through a Fender super-sonic sounds very convincing to me. Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsRUHFmPj3A

I do have a super-sonic, which offers two gain controls, and I would set gain 1 on only 3, and gain2 only 5, to achieve page's tone. Listen closelly to these albums with headphones with a critical ear and on the "crancked amp" track (not the fuzz one), you will hear that there isn't really a lot of gain - its really only a very LOUD clean amp that you hear. I see folks all the time with the overdrive/gain set to max on 10 - that is far from it.


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Post subject: Thank you
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:27 pm
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Thank you for helping with me find a classic Led Zeppelin tone. Oh and by the way Grover86868 Jimmy used a Therim for the break in Whole Lotta Love not a Violin bow.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:59 pm
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Oh by the way Austin, do you mean a theremin? Since I don't have a theremin, I use a violin bow.

Good luck with finding the tone you seek...


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