'Thunderchild' Guitar Solo from The War of the Worlds

Here's my tribute to the mighty and devastating heat-ray sound created by Joe Partridge on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Special thanks to Phil Sheill for laying down a very nice bass line on this track. Fuzzed guitars are recorded using Effectrode 'Mercury' vacuum tube fuzz and 'Tube Drive' pedals.

[@danielbayman3879]

The Martians knew how to shred 🤘

[@GreenhamGuitar]

This sound totally blew my mind as a kid! Thank you so much for recreating it so accurately! I'm glad I know it's actually possible :-)

[@effectrode]

You're welcome David - It's not as difficult as you might think, just time consuming.

[@Aberdeen999videos]

Sweet and clean guitar solo bro!!!!!❤❤

[@effectrode]

Thanks!

[@cobowe]

Originally a Jumbo Fuzz was used

[@tomattah_]

Fabulous!

[@effectrode]

Thank you!

[@tabe3263]

good!

[@themysteriousoa4466]

Holy crap! That was amazing!

[@effectrode]

Thanks!

[@themysteriousoa4466]

@@effectrode How did you get your guitar to sound like that?

[@effectrode]

@@themysteriousoa4466 I played it through stacked tube fuzz and distortion pedals

[@themysteriousoa4466]

@@effectrode Got it! Thanks!

[@benmartin2193]

we neeeeed the tabs for this

[@effectrode]

We do, but the chances on me doing it are a million to one.

[@benmartin2193]

@@effectrode i love that Ogyville reference

[@ghostgoji9532]

@@effectrode Nice One, But If We Somehow Never Get Them, Our Lives Will Be Forever Autumn Without Them.

[@PietroMaximoff2015]

​@@ghostgoji9532
It's the only hope we have... Somewhere in the spirit of Man

[@DietmarAltF4]

FUZZING FAAAAAATTTTT, YeAh!!!

[@mikerompje3823]

omg

[@keeveekoomoo2083]

what are the settings for the fuzz and eq, etc, I had a look on ur site but I couldn't find anything on how to recreate this sound.

[@effectrode]

Everything was pretty much maxed out, then a noise gate applied on the DAW - there was a lot of noise with all that gain.