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.

 

[skoora]

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..

He was probably using a treble booster as well. That and a push from the echoplex can render straw into gold.

Didn’t read the other posts. Totally forgot about the Tape Deck he used.

Didn’t someone make a boost pedal that was just the preamp from the AIWA? it wasn’t an AKAI?

 

[Geo]

After RB left DP they carried on for a while until one of their security guys was killed in some Asian country.

The band said they had already agreed to call it quits when Coverdale came in all loud and whiney yelling " I can't take it anymore, I quit". And the rest of the band was like yeah, we already decided that.

Coverdale is such a princess.