Blackmore's great tone in 1974

[midnightlaundry]

With Coverdale recently calling it quits, this came over my feed. DP was never really on my radar, but I must admits this is great.
You gotta consider this is 74'.. He's playing a Strat with an Ecoplex and cranked Marshalls.. Tone is killer!
Nobody sounds like this anymore.. It's all cheesy smooth Toasters with WAY to much gain..

I like the breakdown with the volume swells.. Great Band..

 

[Techdeth]

This tone is great . But don’t accuse me ever of smooth tone lol . But fuck me he has such a cool lead tone here

 

[CarlF]

old school.
He used the Reel To Reel Tape Recorder for delay and it's overloaded input as a boost. Marshalls are 200 watters but modded with a MV.
Definitely Treble Booster in there (used his entire career)
He used the same rig when I saw him the following year at Rainbow's first two US shows.
He and Trower were the loudest stage volume I ever heard.

 

[midnightlaundry]

Ultra Linear Amps are really clean, so it really must have been super loud!

 

[CarlF]

I still listen to Deep Purple's BURN album to this day.

 

[technomancer]

The front end was cascaded on the Majors but a lot of it was from the Aiwa TP-1011 preamp being used as a drive.