Behold, my guitar solo cover of one of my favorite Deep Purple songs of all times. It’s been haunting me for over a decade, but I finally got to do the cover. Don’t expect too much, it’s sloppy in few places, but hey, I’m not Ritchie Blackmore 🙂

Used my custom made guitar plugged into Native Instruments Komplete 6 audio interface. The guitar is equipped with DiMarzio FRED at the bridge and PAF Pro at neck position. It’s a very versatile combination that covers a lot of ground. At the front of the VST effect chained I used Rangebastard treble booster which is modeled after Dallas Rangemaster. Amp model is LePou HyBrit (Marshall Plexi/JCM800) set on MCJ (JCM) channel. I used some EQ after the amp to scoop out the mids and slightly boost the bass to get closer to Gibson ES335 that Blackmore used on this track. There’s a little reverb added from Amplitube 3 pedal (don’t remember the exact name). At the end of the chain are Vintage Marshall G12M25 Basketwave cab impulses, one mic’d with Shure SM57 and the other with Royer R121. I blended the two to get the tone I liked.

Note that for clean part at the end I didn’t change channels or anything, just switched to the two outer coils wired in parallel. It brings down the volume just enough to clean up the sound.

For more info on my DIY gear visit www.diy-fever.com

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Pickup: DiMarzio PAF Pro
Effect: ReaEQ
Effect: Rangebastard VST
Effect: Sonic Maximizer VST
Amplifier: LePou HyBrit
Cabinet: RedWirez mixIR2
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

One of my favorite Deep Purple songs of all time and brilliant Blackmore’s solo.

Made the backing track by down-mixing a 5.1 version of the song and playing with channel phases.

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: Rangebastard VST
Effect: Sonic Maximizer VST
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS Plexi
Cabinet: RedWirez mixIR2
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Guitar covers of one of my favorite Satriani songs. Setup is very simple – guitar into the interface and Reaper DAW running Positive Grid BIAS JTM45 amp model boosted by TSE808 tubescreamer plugin. A touch of delay is added and that’s it.

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: TSE808 VST
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS JTM45
Effect: ReaDelay VST
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Recorded with my custom shredding guitar using GLS ES-57 and Palmer PDI-09 simultaneously. MXR Classic Overdrive adds just a tiny bit more focus to the sound, both level and drive are set very low. Most of the distortion comes from the IIc+ preamp clone.

For more info on my DIY gear visit www.diy-fever.com

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: MXR 10 band EQ
Effect: MXR Classic Overdrive
Effect: TC Nova Repeater
Amplifier: Mark IIc+ PCB Preamp
Amplifier: Nan@ Amp
Cabinet: 1×10″ w/ Celestion Vintage G10
Cabinet: Palmer PDI-09
Microphone: GLS ES-57
Recorder: Tascam DP-008
Tube: 12AX7
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: 6AK6
Tube: 6021
Other: LND150

’68 Shades of Deep Purple
– Mandrake Root
’68 Book of Taliesyn
– Wring That Neck
’70 In Rock
– Bloodsucker
– Child in Time
– Into The Fire
– Speed King
– Black Night
’71 Fireball
– Fireball
– No No No
– Strange Kind of Woman
’72 Machine Head
– Highway Star
– Lazy
– Maybe I’m a Leo
– Never Before
– Pictures of Home
– Smoke on the Water
– Space Truckin’
’73 Who Do We Think We Are
– Rat Bat Blue
– Super Trouper
– Woman From Tokyo
’74 Burn
– Burn
– Lay Down Stay Down
– Might Just Take Your Life
– Mistreated
– You Fool No One
’74 Stormbringer
– Lady Double Dealer
– Stormbringer
– The Gypsy
– You Can’t Do It Right
’75 Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow
– Man On The Silver Mountain
– Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
– Still I’m Sad
’76 Rainbow Rising
– Startstruck
– Stargazer
’78 Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll
– Kill The King
– Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll
– Gates Of Babylon
– Sensitive To Light
’79 Down To Earth
– All Night Long
– Since You Been Gone
’81 Difficult to Cure
– Spotlight Kid
’84 Perfect Strangers
– Gypsy’s Kiss
– Hungry Daze
– Knocking At Your Back Door
– Perfect Strangers
’86 The House of Blue Light
– Mad Dog
’93 The Battle Rages On
– Anya
– Solitaire
– Talk About Love
’95 Stranger In Us All
– Ariel

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Pickup: DiMarzio PAF Pro
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Good old AC/DC riff to demo the new pedal I built. For more info visit http://diy-fever.com/k-o-t-b-hot-rod-plexi

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: KOTB
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Main guitar line from a very cool Winery Dogs song called Six Feet Deeper, aimed to demo the new pedal I built. For more info visit http://diy-fever.com/k-o-t-b-hot-rod-plexi

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: KOTB
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Cool Winery Dogs riff to demo the new pedal I built. For more info visit http://diy-fever.com/k-o-t-b-hot-rod-plexi

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: KOTB
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Playing one of my favorite Richie Kotzen riffs to demo the new pedal I built. The pedal is plugged into NI Komplete 6 interface where I’m running PositiveGrid BIAS VST amp modeler set to clean JTM45 amp. For more info visit http://diy-fever.com/effects/k-o-t-b-hot-rod-plexi

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: KOTB
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Trying to demo lead capabilities of the KOTB pedal. The pedal is plugged into NI Komplete 6 interface where I’m running PositiveGrid BIAS VST amp modeler set to clean JTM45 amp. For more info visit http://diy-fever.com/effects/k-o-t-b-hot-rod-plexi

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: KOTB
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Testing Digital Delay and Chorus effects on Boss BE-5. These feature circuits very similar to early DD-3 and CE-2 respectively. Delay is very clean, natural sounding without being sterile and artificial. Early DD-3 are highly praised for their warm sound. Chorus is based on Panasonic BBD chips (MN3007 and MN3102) and offers little control (Rate and Depth) but works pretty well. It can add dimension to clean sounds or thicken high gain riffs. In this test I tried both effects separately and also combined for huge clean sound.

I used my Bancika MK1 guitar with Dimarzio PAF Pro in the neck position.

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio PAF Pro
Effect: Boss BE-5
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS Roland JC-120
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Overdrive/Distortion test with Boss BE-5. Plugged straight into NI Komplete 6 audio interface, running Bias Amp (Dumble Clean model) in the Reaper. BE-5 features overdrive circuit taken from Boss OS-2 standalone unit. It’s basically a distortion and overdrive in the same box with a pot that can blend the two effects. It’s a very cool idea. I tested it with drive and tone set to noon position and blend pot set to overdrive only, 50:50 blend of overdrive and distortion and distortion only.

I used my Bancika MK1 guitar with Dimarzio FRED in the bridge position.

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: Boss BE-5
Amplifier: Positive Grid BIAS Dumble Clean
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

Medley of 80s inspired riffs played badly 🙂

For more info on my DIY gear visit www.diy-fever.com

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: Palmer PDI-09
Cabinet: 1×10″ w/ Celestion Vintage G10
Microphone: GLS ES-57
Recorder: Tascam DP-008
Tube: 6N2P
Other: Russian PIO Capacitors

Guitar solo cover of one of my favorite Deep Purple songs. Used my custom made guitar into NI Komplete 6 interface and laptop. Amp model is LePou SoloC (Soldano SLO model) set on crunch channel.

For more info on my DIY gear visit www.diy-fever.com

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio FRED
Effect: ReaEQ
Effect: Sonic Maximizer VST
Amplifier: LePou SoloC
Cabinet: RedWirez mixIR2
Interface: NI Komplete 6
Recorder: Reaper

SLO Clone with EL91 output stage for 4.8w of power…
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

SLO Clone with EL91 output stage for 4.8w of power.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

SLO Clone with EL91 output stage for 4.8w of power.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

DiMarzio equipped guitar into el91 based SLO clone.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

DiMarzio equipped guitar into el91 based SLO clone.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

DiMarzio equipped guitar into el91 based SLO clone.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Pickup: DiMarzio PAF Pro
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

DiMarzio equipped guitar into el91 based SLO clone.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91

DiMarzio equipped guitar into el91 based SLO clone.
Build report here – http://diy-fever.com/amps/5-watt-slo/

Guitar: Bancika MK1
Pickup: DiMarzio Tone Zone
Pickup: DiMarzio PAF Pro
Amplifier: 5 watt SLO
Cabinet: 1×12″ Celestion Greenback G12M
Recorder: Camera
Tube: 6N2P
Tube: EL91