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GuitarInferred2
Smoke on the Water
Deep Purple
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Likely Stratocaster single-coil pickupTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- Crunch
- Bright Attack
Signal chain
- Guitar: Ritchie Blackmore Fender Stratocaster-era
- Pickup: Likely Stratocaster single-coil pickup
- Amp: Likely early-'70s Blackmore Vox/Marshall high-powered
- Effects: Hornby-Skewes treble booster
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Dry, articulate classic-hard-rock crunch with less saturation than many modern recreations.
Bass
Moderate and controlled.
Mids
Strongly forward, carrying the famous riff.
Treble
Bright and biting.
Brightness / presence
Open and immediate.
Compression
Natural loud-amp/booster compression.
Effects
Hornby-Skewes treble booster is the key drive/brightness device; minimal ambience.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: dry, mid-forward, biting, classic, articulate, crunchy, immediate
Targets Blackmore's main riff tone. Blackmore directly describes the Hornby-Skewes plus Vox-or-Marshall approach for the Smoke on the Water period, but the exact title-track head is not overclaimed.
Effects
Hornby-Skewes treble booster is the key drive/brightness device; minimal ambience.
Original Gear
Guitar
Ritchie Blackmore Fender Stratocaster-era main guitar reference
Amp
Likely early-'70s Blackmore Vox/Marshall high-powered
Channel
Treble-booster-driven clean-to-crunch amp input
Pickup
Likely Stratocaster single-coil pickup
