1073 + 1176 2x Chained Cranked and Smashed

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Did you know that the iconic Jimmy Page guitar part on Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” was actually a DI recording? The story goes that Page’s guitar was run through a mixing console and smashed into two 1176-type compressors in order to get this famous tone. Here is a quote from Jimmy Page describing this setup: “We put my Les Paul through a direct box, and from there into a mic channel. We used the mic amp of the mixing board to get distortion. Then we ran it through two Urei 1176 Universal compressors in series. Then each line was triple-track. Curiously, I was listening to that track when we were reviewing the tapes and the guitars almost sound like an analog synthesizer.” We had these compressors in our studio, so here is a fun experimental recreation of this chain.

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