Real AmpTuning: E StandardPickup: BridgeCrunchBlues

Albert Studios Full-Throttle Rise — Super Bass Rhythm & Lead Stack

The title track was produced by Harry Vanda and George Young to preserve the band’s live momentum, and album documentation associates Malcolm with his stripped Gretsch and Angus with loud Marshall amplification. Evidence conflicts over whether Angus used an SG or Les Paul-family instrument on particular takes, so the guitar is labelled uncertain and all control positions are approximated from the documented era rig. Source: Equipboard’s Let There Be Rock album page and Guitar World’s Angus and Malcolm career interview.

Signal Chain

1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird with single Filter’TronMarshall JMP Super BassMarshall 4x12Output
Guitar1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird with single Filter’Tron
Tone
10
PickupBridge
TuningE Standard
Volume
10
AmpMarshall JMP Super Bass
Bass
2
Mids
8
Treble
6
Presence
5
Volume I7.5
Volume II0
Cab / IRMarshall 4x12
MicClose dynamic
Mic PositionVery close, slightly off-axis

Notes

This is high energy, not modern high gain. Allow the performance to accelerate and become rougher toward the ending while keeping the low end lean.

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