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Led Zeppelin guitar tone

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.

Play it in
AmpliTube 5Guitar Rig 7
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Loads in AmpliTube 5, using only gear the standard edition includes: no MAX upgrade or extra collections.

An amp modelled on a Fender Deluxe Reverb, through a Fender Deluxe 1x12 cab.

  1. AmpAmerican Tube Clean 2
  2. Cab1x12 Open Vintage

Knobs, in signal order

  1. Amp American Tube Clean 2

    • Gain, 3.5 of 10
    • Bass, 5 of 10
    • Mid, 5.5 of 10
    • Treble, 6 of 10
    • Presence, 5 of 10
    • Volume, 6 of 10
    • Reverb, 0 of 10

  2. Cab 1x12 Open Vintage

    Nothing to set; the preset loads it.

Set your guitar

Pickups
two humbuckers
Position
neck
Tone knob
6-7
Channel
Clean
  • Swapped: amp: Supro unavailable, fell back to American Tube Clean 2

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