How To Get Ritchie Blackmore's Deep Purple MKIII Sound - You Fool No One

"You Fool No One" by request from my friend Mauro of the great Five Doctors Band! :) Check them out on Facebook for amazing Deep Purple covers.

By 1973 Ritchie Blackmore had replaced not only Gillan and Glover but his Hornby Skewes booster and main Strats as well. Fender had made no changes in pickup construction at the time so we can assume that the bulk of the sound was very similar to his MK2 Strats. Other factors like the die-cast tremolo bridge/saddles and ash body also affect the sound but in a more subtle way.

The real change in tone was driven by the AIWA TP-1011 that he modified to use as a preamp platform in front of his factory-modded Marshall Major.
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* Guitar parts are approximate. Backing track extracted with Riffstation.
Echo effect added in ProTools. No EQ was needed in Post.

* Some of Blackmore's fills are in the same frequency range as the vocals and I couldn't remove them properly from the backing track. So I left the original parts.