By: Elijah Lamp

Elijah Lamp — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:30:26 +0000

I’ve been trying to track down reliable info on Page’s setup for years. One thing I never hear talked about much is that he owned all of the yardbirds gear after they all abandoned ship which was a lot of Vox stuff. Seeing how he was taking a big risk starting Zep and he Zep I was done on the cheap, I wonder if a lot of this stuff got used in the studio? He also had his session gear which included the three pickup Les Paul custom and a Super Reverb. And he used a leslie setup from the first album on, that I’ve never seen described. I can’t speak directly to Heartbreaker but I have a tele, a Build your own clone MKII and a Super Reverb and you can get very close to the LZ I sound with that setup, but you have to roll the volume way down or it turns to T Rex farts in a hurry. MKII’s are NOT subtle. I wonder if he had Roger Mayer modify his MKII for LESS gain? IDK it seems to be along with an old wah one of the ubiquitous pieces he is always seen with but if the BYOC MKII is anywhere close to a vintage Tonebender he had to play with the volume rolled way down most of the time. I know he also plugged into the console on numerous occasions (Black Dog comes to mind as a possibility?) But I think you might be right about the Transonic’s on Heartbreaker. Sounds plausible to me.

By: C.J. Rebel

C.J. Rebel — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:45:47 +0000

Great post! Brian May used a little solid state thing made by John Deacon for a lot of studio work also (called the "Deacy"). A little known fact as SS amps are much maligned! ESPECIALLY from the 1960s and 1970s.

By: Ronbo

Ronbo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:21:02 +0000

Beautiful….thank you for this info.

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