Blackmore's TONE Trick I've NEVER Tried!
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- Deep Purple and Rainbow are the pinnacle of 70s rock. Ritchie Blackmore had a not so secret tone trick which I've never tried, despite having all the equipment to pull it off...
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Deep Purple and Rainbow are the pinnacle of 70s rock. Ritchie Blackmore had a not so secret tone trick which I've never tried, despite having all the equipment to pull it off...
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06:41 - Did I Nail The Tone?
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I was under the impression he used the tape machine as a delay also. Around 300 Ms with deep purple and 600 Ms with Rainbow.
@@michaelfinnegan3805 analogue delay chips didn't really exist until the early 80s, so any delay had to be coming from a tape echo machine - or several.
Thank you for showing this. I think nobody else on youtube has done this. It sounds great I think. About you're playing I think you do fine and the only thing you could practise is to not do the chug chug metal style palm muting. If you listen closely, Blackmore never does that. He mutes the strings when needed but seem to have a light touch to it so it doesn't become the typical chugy palm muting that generations of stereotypical metal guitarists seem to do.
@@michaelkarlsson5966 Maybe you should lighten up!! Go sniff a cork!!
@@ScienceofLoud what's the flight times through old solid state stuff? I was gonna say it probably had delay from the circuit itself, but not having any idea of old gear guts I held it - but now it presents itself. *goes to look up what's inside the tape machine*
I would never have thought to use whatever was laying around but I have used whatever's laying around when it does something I like. The problem is getting it to do it again when the first thing invariably, eventually breaks.
I had a tape deck once that would let you overdub because of a head misalignment, turn it over and you're dubbing the other side. Sometimes old electronics would run backwards on startup, had an old turntable that would do that. I literally had a recording (there was a tape deck on it) of the "satanic backmasking" Led Zepplin drama at the time it happened because I could hold it and manually start it going in reverse - made many copies of that tape lol people were freaking out.
Rainbow is a lost gem of the 70's. It amazes me how many people don't know about them. My favorite is Gates of Babylon!
What are you talking about?! Who doesn't know Rainbow? Lost gem?! Maybe all the people you know are morons
Believe me, all the crowd around the reaction channels knows at least Stargazer, probably Gates of Babylon, too. Dio is the master.
@@luisnunes3863Those 3 Rainbow albums with Dio are solid gold, as are the 2 Black Sabbath albums he sang on after moving on
@@jasondorsey7110 yeh Dio was pretty special... You can see why people like Sabbath and Blackmore saught him out
The live album is incredible.
Richie Blackmore is one of my top 5 guitarists of all time, I had no idea about this. Very nice bit of info
Since what Ritchie was doing was before the age of tube screamers and such, this is quite an ingenious method for the time. It thickens things up and gives more punch from the single coils.
Nice demo!
Blackmore has used a second reverse wound coil, either stacked, or as a dummy coil in the middle position, to basically have a humbucker in his strats, to help reduce noise. The resistance was almost like an actual humbucker, so that is more likely the source of the "thicker" signal, and the tape machine preamp was jut helping get a bit more gain from those amps.
Indeed, though there were 'Overdrives' even back then - Rangemaster Treble booster for example - which although not 100% - would have got us closer to RB's sound than the later TS would
@@SD_UK Good thing several clones of the Rangemaster are available today for usually around the $200 mark.
@@ErikVOfficial Blackmore had several kinds of pickups in his strats. The dummy coil appeared in 1978. The tape machine was used first in 1973, way before he changed his pickups and the dummy coil, helped by John "Dawk" Stillwell, his tech which scalopped and modified his guitars and amps
This kinda blew my little braincells away… 54 yr old, been playing Blackmore’s songs since I was about 8. I had seen pics of the reel-to-reel and had ALWAYS assumed it was being used as a tape-echo…. Damn, never to old to learn new things. I’ve got an old AKAI R2R out in my storage truck. Time to go grab it. :)
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@lam_Dunn : he most definitely used the reel-to-reel for echo as well, eg on Mistreated.
One of the pedals I've been wanting for a long time is a Catalinbread Dreamcoat. It's the preamp circuit from an Aiwa TP-1011 tape machine (the very one Ritchie used with Rainbow) in a $189 compact pedal box.
Apparently, the pedal also has a frequency booster. So... that's pretty rad.
That does sound interesting. Catalinbread do some interesting stuff.
Rainbow is one of my favorite bands ever! from their invention of prog metal and power metal in the 70s with Dio to the top tier commercial rock hits in the early 80s with Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner, every single recording of theirs is absolutely legendary!
I'll definitely be happy to see a tape saturation pedal :)
I think the Catalinbread Dreamcoat might be what you're looking for. It not only has near identical circuitry that he's describing, but also a frequency boost (That Blackmore also supposedly used). For like $179.
Back in 1982, I had read that Blackmore used a tape recorder. Being that I was only 16 and didn't know anything, I didn't realize he was putting it in front of an amp. My dad got me a broken tube reel-to-reel with a built-in power amp. That tape rotors didn't work but the preamp and power amp did. I was able to get a pretty good distortion sound with it, so I used that with an old hi-fi speaker box from the 1950s as an amp until 1984 when my dad got me a Peavey Bandit 65 as an early birthday present for New Year's Day.
This video sure brought back memories.
Ahh, a fellow Stargazer enjoyer. I love Rainbow but that riff and song just go so hard. And this was a lovely video. I had no idea Blackmore used a tape machine that way nor that one COULD be used that way.
I am still in awe of Blackmore’s tone on the live albums Made in Europe (Deep Purple Mk III) and On Stage (Rainbow). This setup gets about halfway there.
I think Ritchie use fuze face pedal that Hendrix also use it..
If you watch Ritchie closely, you'll see him flipping back and forth between the bridge and neck pickups. I think that also has a lot to do with his lead tone.
He actually has a dummy middle pickup because he never uses it! He also pioneered scalloped boards on his guitars.
he also never chugs (metal style palm muting) when playing. Certainly affecting the sound alot :)
He NEVER used the middle pickup.
@@michaelkarlsson5966 he never "chugs" as in playing riffs entirely with palm muting, but he sure does use palm muting
If you watch Rainbow live in Germany, you can clearly see the tape deck with the reels spinning off to the side of the stage.
George Lynch of Dokken did a similar trick on the Back For The Attack album but instead of an Akai Tape machine, he used a Tascam Portastudio
Close, but the album was Under Lock and Key, and the unit was a Fostex four-track tape recorder. This was confirmed by Michael Wagener in 2006. Or did he pull something similar for the next album as well?
@@kospandx You're right, I was mixing up which album it's on/the tape recorder. I heard it from a Michael Wagner interview also I think George also talked about it when he did Dave Friedman's Tone Talk podcast episode with Jeff Pilson, who revealed he still had the original Fostex in his studio. "Is there cocaine in it?" - George Lynch
@@kospandxl have a Fostex recorder that can record up to four inputs at once. I should try this out.
Ritchie didn't use an Akai either, it was an Aiwa TP-1011.
Literally just pulled a couple of Rainbow and Deep Purple records out of storage today, what a lovely little bit of serendipitous convergence.
What a great tone. My favourite Blackmore tone is on Perfect Strangers. He sounded glorious live.
I thought you were crazy using a tape machine to get his tone, but once you started playing, I saw the light. You nailed it!
Isn't that what the MXR Echoplex preamp and Xotic EP Booster are supposed to be? I'd be interested in hearing a real tape machine vs those types of pedals that seek to recreate it.
Reel to Reels are awsome, I recommend You seek for an Akai GX machine. They (and only they) have a glass layer on the heads wich makes them absolute wear resistant. Best machines ever. I have an Akai GX630- loving it.
The Echoplex was a tape echo, while the Akai is a recorder, but maybe they have similar preamps. I have an Xotic EP Booster, not sure how close it is to real thing but I like it.
BSM make a replica Aiwa preamp in a pedal
@@gingataffso does Guitarslinger
I'm stupid but for some reason I thought he used a range-master in the day.
Epic tone and stellar shirt, dude!
There's a german maker of booster pedals. one of them is BSM 71-73 CM. they have a few models , dedicated to Blackmore. One of them recreates this circuit from the tape recorder. I owned a couple of these pedals. Recommended.
Blackmore utilized a dummy pickup in place of his middle pickup too, which if you notice was always screwed down lower than the bridge and neck pickups. He had a lot up his sleeve.
Hi, well in fact Blackmore didn't use the dummy coil until the 1978. He only played with bridge and Neck pickups, but not middle, so he lowered it. The last pickups he used were the Lace Sensor (his were prototypes from Don Lace)
I love Blackmore so much. Lazy, Light in the Black, Gates of Babylon, countless more. You ever listen to the Burn solo slowed down? Every single note is perfectly on time, you'd think it's quantized or something. Biggest thing that helped me nail his style was switching from pick to fingers for certain sections of the songs like the arpeggitated parts and double stops.
Gates of Babylon solo.
@@michaelfinnegan3805 one of my favorites is black sheep of the family, I like the whole first album.
I got it 1 week of release.
Thick tone, but the distinctive treble character of the single coil is also there, good work!
I absolutely love the idea of making an overdrive pedal based on the tape preamp. It’s probably been tried multiple times before, but I can’t help it. It’s still an awesome concept! 🤘🏻
Nice job on the playing and riffs. Love old gear and research on old tones. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Dude I have the same piece of equipment and haven't ever figured out anything useful to do with it! BOOM! you are the man bro!! Thanks.
nice lil invention from Ritchie, high gain is the mother of all necessity 🤘 .-great vid man, love me a good tone chaser story
Nice demo Sir. Your sound is lovely, so bang on the money. Got me thinking now about preamp circuits at the top of the chain. You've given me a new project. Once I get the others finished of course.
Well played my man! Thank you for the video.
That was FANTASTIC 👏
That sound is insane! Thanks for making this video.
Another insightful video good sir!
You just got A LOT cooler, knowing that you dig Dio era Rainbow!
Edit: That tone is spot on mate!
Great hint! Thanks!
I had no idea! Thanks Colin. Incidentally, 16 year old me did pretty much the same thing out of desperation as I got an electric for my birthday without an amp 😢. My chain was Sharp reel to reel into the mic input of a Hitachi g-blaster and then into the Sharp hi-fi which had 16 inch speakers and (thankfully) detachable tweeters. Accidentally managed to get a pretty okay sound 😂. Also, nice choice of whisky!
My first overdrive was an old cassette player and it did something similar
Same. Put it on record and distort the signal. DIY PUNK
@@svenjansen2134I did the same but just wired it in place of the playback head. Actually used it as a mini amp.
Couldn't place the volume past 2 without getting screaming feedback.
Good times!
Yeah! Nice job! Rainbow Rising is one of my all time favourite albums! I have a few vinyl copies as, they have been played so much, most are worn out! I recon you got as close as anyone could wish for to that sound! Sweet!
It's interesting how much jangle and spank still remains audible in the end product, almost as if it's a pedal with a blend control where you still have a good amount of the dry signal in it. Great video!
Thanks for this. Sounds crazy today, but makes total sense!
Ritchie Blackmore did have one of the most amazing guitar sounds of the 70's. I read that he would use a mixing board into his amp to push the gain. I've tried it, and it sounds crazy. I don't doubt that may have been his secret for such high gain and deep tone. But he did always have that tape machine running, for echo/delay. I've never tried that so I can't say for sure. All I know is that inspired the SHIT out of me. One of my top favorites of all time.
Wooowzers that's the Sound!!!! I've always wondered. Thanks Youngster!!!
I aplaude your song choice, gear choice and whisky choice! Slainte!!
i like it! i have a akai and it really makes thicker the tone! thanks for share it!
BSM have been making what's supposed to be a close copy of a Ritchie's AIWA preamp for a long time. There's also Catalinbread Dreamcoat.
I used my Strat thru Early to mid 70s using a WEM echo unit and my 100 watt Marshall with a single 4x12 cab lovely sound never needed any other effects - no pedal ever gave me that kind of sound 👍🌝 I had no idea Blackmore was using the same concept , I always loved his sound - now I know why ! Thanks for the usefull demo , you sounded exactly right 😁
Thank you for making me aware of this killer album. Been listening to it today and it rules.
I think it sounds really good too, Colin!
There's a certain pleasure in using era-appropriate, expensive and inconvenient analaogue gear......
One of the best summaries of guitarists and our vintage obsession!😂
Also : your shirt is fabulous Colin!😊😊😊
Waouh thanks u make my day with this usage of a tape recorder.
Way to give Ritchie Blackmore his props.
Oh yeah! You definitely got a Blackmore vibe cookin there! 🤗
Blackmores Aiwa Deck gives that unique hollow Twang. He also uses it in place of a Echo unit. Good Job Mate !
For years I suspected this was the missing ingredient and you nailed it.......
When I was a kid I used my Dads tape deck in a similar way. Go in the mic input, press record and have pause on, and turn up the recording level so the needles went into the red. I never knew Blackmore did a similar thing. Great vid. 👍🏻
I’m impressed with the sound here. ❤
...this just gave me a WHOLE BUNCH of ideas. to try all kinds of different things in the same sort of way as the tape recorder thing.
Excellent 😊
Great demo of the difference between tape machine / no tape machine. Blackmore did definitely get a beefed up Strat tone with that set up.
Ritchie is my favorite guitarist by far, and his rig has nigh endless detail for a tech geek to study.
You should totally make a pedal based on that tape recorder. That's pretty cool!
Bsm make one it's very articulate and thick
Awesome!
That’s so great! I’ve always wanted to try this. Great sounds and playing! 🫨👍
I did exactly this in the mid 70’s with a Philips reel to reel tape recorder into a little Zenta practice amp. Figured it out out of necessity and lack of an unaffordable tone bender booster. Using a wah Got some great Brian May tones too. ❤
Very cool.I have always wondered how Ritchie got that strat to sound like that!
Makes me think about all the old analogue audio bits and pieces I have and how they might sound as overdriven preamps. Just as you said, probably nothing you couldn't get very simply with a pedal, but just for fun. Thanks for the video. 👍
I have an old Lafayette spring reverb unit that I sometimes use just for its mic preamp, the gain boost is righteous
Wow, that really opened up the sound. Instead of a harsh overdrive it created a thick and warm sound that allows enough spank to still sound like a Strat. I hope a pedal maker sees this and makes a preamp for this.
I'm hoping signal boosters like the SD Pickup Booster or MXR Micro Amp can do the same thing, but let's see once the tape recorder's guts get investigated more lol
I consumed this video willingly and found it enjoyable.
There, hopefully that will appease the algorithm.
Thanks for this i always wondered what the reel to reel was about..
tape preamps of any kind, whether they be Maestro, Roland or Akai, just sound beastly. There really is magic there.
Love the Outro.. Some last seconds Easter egg just like in cinema after the credits
And there it is!
LLLOOOOEEDDD!!!! Great show.
Very nice sound. I think it is time to take out my 70’s gear and start plugging into them.
Insert milf joke here.
@@robertinogochev3682 lol 😂
LEGEND! Blackmore rules forever!
very cool!
I saw Rainbow on the first tour with Joe Lynn Turner and later on the full Deep Purple lineup with Ian Paice & Gillan, Jon Lord, Ritchie and Roger Glover on the House of Blue Light tour and always saw the tape machine. I'd only read in guitar mags what it was for, but never understood how it worked as a preamp at the time. As it was always rolling throughout the shows, I thought it was some tape echo type thing, as well. Great sound! I have the OR15 and it absolutely kills.
I think Richie used a Yamaha MV802 stereo mixer to get back to high Z before the amp. At least there are pictures of one in his rack with the Akai tape machine on top. I actually use one to push my Peavey Classic 50/50 stereo tube amp from my pedal board as the amp was likely designed for keyboards and pretty clean with a ton of headroom. I bought one used for that purpose and found out later Richie used it too. I won't change it for a new one! - It's magic sauce!
Blackmore's tone is loud but surprisingly clean. This is because he created a great deal of clear headroom by using 200w Marshall Major amps that were attenuated to 300w. A very different beast to the Orange amp you used. There are already a few Blackmore inspired pedals on the market, including the GuitarSlinger RB1011 Booster.
Great channel, by the way.
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It is because he didn't use too many gain on distortion or drive whatever he used. His gear was almost on a clean sound. The rest is in his fingers.
Very close indeed! Makes me love my Strat again!
Def smoothed out the strat tone. Very interesting.
that was glorious 🎉
Spot on
This will have great results for bass and keys too!
cheers!
Most guys use the EP 1 Echoplex, to get those sounds too . Like Jimmy Page , Eddie Van Halen and of course Jimi Hendrix . I'm 71 and still use mine . There's plenty of others too ,that have a 12xa7 in the preamp. I've done the way you tried it to . I had a Akai tape deck and see screamed to .Lol.👍
Jimi didn't use the Echo- Plex live and he rarely used it in the studio. Tommy Bolin definitely used one though!
@kennyblackbird5674 I call bullshit on that,their first gig in LA ,Ca at the Rose Palace in Pasadena. FRONT ROW ,I WATCHED HIS EVERY MOVE. Cause I was a guitar player too .Checked over what he was using with eagle eyes. Even his violin bow, waa waa pedal .etc. Now he might of been other things too .Those EPs are kind of touchy.So bringing it every gig is not likely. Sometimes I will use pedals too. But the EPs have a special sound,as do the Roland space echo,Binsons too. I've been down that rabbit hole .Check your sources. Not bullshit to you but the story.👍 Lol.
Superb sound sir...from Outer Hebrides
Amazing video! Well done! I might be wrong but I recall George lynch going through a mini fostex recorder?
I've got that tape deck, I'll have to give this a try.
God I love having a reel to reel in my studio. There's so many cool things you can do with it.
If I'd ever been able to get a Strat to sound like that I probably wouldn't have sold every one I've ever owned! Good job.
The thickness really gets in there, feels somewhat like octaver. Such a clever way to thicken up a strat tone for a dirty sound. Those transistor must be adding those even order harmonics for that thick sound.
I have the same guitar but I put Fishmans in it. Oh, and I saw every Rainbow tour that blew thru Chicago, starting with the very first tour. Yep, that tape machine was always by his side
Wow cool video, I’ve seen the pictures with the tape machine but never put 2 and 2 together. I use a Klon clone into a Marshall with a strat to kinda do the same thing and it seems to work.
Very cool! You can achieve something of the same "girthening" effect using a Dumbal Drive pedal. I would recommend it as it's 3 different clipping modes as well.
Love it, Love it , Love it - I just found the same Reel to Reel here in the USA fo $350.- Condition good to excellent - it s a good day to buy gear, Thanks -
There is a story that someone in the crowd at a gig shouted out that Blackmore was miming his guitar solo's against a tape recording (his AKAI). Ritchie wandered over, switched the tape off and kept playing! Blackmore by the way was an apprentice electrician in his youth at Heathrow Airport when he left school. This kind of solution to boost an amp would have been no real challenge for him.
I still use my old Tascam Porta II as a preamp/compressor, just with a cassette tape on record and pause as it has to have one to engage recording mode mechanically. It has a unique but great sound very well suited for guitars and vocals.
thank you c, i always wanted to know where that sound came from, coverdale and stormbringer are two of my favorites
Thanks for showing the tape machine in action, I only played the Catalinbread Dreamcoat but it adds a special something ✌️
0:11 clearly should've been the thumbnail here
Epic video by the way. Rainbow is like a restaurant most people don't know about or care to visit but secretly serves Michelin quality food.
Cousin, this video nails it!!!! Thank you. Wondering if 2 tape decks would further the grit aspect of the tone or not... mentioned cousin as my family built Loudon Hall in Ayr.
I have a 60s era Akai Reel to Reel inherited from my Dad. I'll need to try this out.
Also, I have a tube Telefunken radio from him. It's magical how great FM music sounds coming out of that thing. The mixture of the tube warmth and the speakers(I asume alnoco magnets?), is amazing. Always wondered if it could be made into a guitar preamp of some sort? Probably fine for bedroom volume too?
Pretty sure Page did the same thing with an Echoplex. I even have a preamp pedal based on the Echoplex preamp and it’s just fantastic.
Highly interesting - to say the least! 👍