A tone for the band, not for one recording: the sound they are known for, so expect to move a knob for any particular song. Nobody has played this one yet; it comes from a documented rig, not from ears.
Dial it in Guitar Rig 7 Pro by hand, using only components the Pro edition includes. A starting point nobody has played in this edition yet.
An amp modelled on a Fender Deluxe Reverb, through a Fender Deluxe 1x12 cab.
Knobs, in signal order
1
Reverb DelightAmp
Bass, 5 of 10Bass5of 10
Treble, 6 of 10Treble6of 10
Reverb, 0 of 10Reverb0of 10
Volume, 6 of 10Volume6of 10
The recipe also sets gain, mid and presence, which Reverb Delight does not have. Leave its other controls where they load.
2
Matched Cabinet ProCab
Cabinet, the one that loads with Reverb DelightCabinetThe one that loads with Reverb Delight
The rig calls for a Fender Deluxe 1x12 cabinet. NI does not publish the names of the matched cabinets, so start from the one that loads with the amp and change it by ear.
Amp swapped: The Supro has no counterpart in Guitar Rig 7 Pro; Reverb Delight stands in as the first Clean amp in this edition
Note: A plain number is the knob's own reading on a 0 to 10 scale unless the setting gives another range; %, Hz, dB and ms are the units the Guitar Rig 7 interface shows. Amp, drive and fuzz knobs are assumed to read 0 to 10.
Set your guitar
Pickups
two humbuckers
Position
neck
Tone knob
6-7
Channel
Clean
Where the rig comes from
A Supro was used for the entire first album and for the Stairway to Heaven solo, played on the 1959 Dragon Telecaster; the twelve string parts of Stairway were layered on a Vox Phantom XII and a Fender Electric XII; Page also used a Vox AC30 at times groundguitar.com
For Stairway to Heaven a settings guide suggests the neck pickup for the arpeggios, a tone knob around 6 to 7 for the softer sections and a guitar volume around 7 to 8; community opinion rather than documentation guitarchalk.com