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.

 

[Reverend Bow]

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?

AIWA Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck

And this might be the pedal you are thinking about:
BSM RPA
https://www.treblebooster.net/products/custom-made/rpa-special-booster

But that company is closed due to the owner's passing...

If you are feeling sporty....

 

[Dave L]

Didn´t know the BSM guy died, that explains why they´re so expensive second-hand now. But yeah, Blackmore always sounded great with whatever Marshall and whatever boost he used, I think he used various 70s 1959s and Master Volumes too apart from the Majors.

 

[Greazygeo]

There was this pedal. Dreamcoat. I have one, kinda confusing, but cool when you get it figured out.

https://catalinbread.com/pages/dreamcoat-skewer?_pos=2&_sid=1edd94f1c&_ss=r

 

[CarlF]

There was this pedal. Dreamcoat. I have one, kinda confusing, but cool when you get it figured out.

https://catalinbread.com/pages/dreamcoat-skewer?_pos=2&_sid=1edd94f1c&_ss=r

I had both, two pieces of shit. You couldn’t get a Blackmore sound out of out it even if Blackmore was playing out of it

 

[D-Rock]

Funny this came up as I just put my Naga Viper clone in front of my chain the other night and FINALLY got the thing to breath fire like never before. I'm stacking it into a modestly set Blues Driver and then a GE-7 before hitting my SUN gate and then my liquid chorus. These are all "always one pedals." Very little noise and mucho tone layering. The Treble Booster adds some very nice cut and quite a powerful punch to what was already a formidable alt metal rhythm tone. It also added some tube like feel and treble freq response that I was missing with my digital Marshall preamp setting.

 

[Monkey Man]

@midnightlaundry the video in the OP now says, "Video unavailable ~ This video is not available".

If you can find a working upload of it I'll add this thread to the homepage.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I think we forget that a lot of dynamics come from these guys digging in and playing with less lead. Same goes for Uli roth. He works for all of it. I think Blackmore also used that Akai tape machine unit as a preamp to give things a bit more jam. A few builders make an overpriced clone of that unit in a 300 or 400$ pedal.

Edit: Aiwa (someone said it above)

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I had both, two pieces of fucking shit. You couldn’t get a Blackmore sound out of out it even if Blackmore was playing out of it

Thanks for the review! Their stuff is hit or miss.