How to Dial In "Sabbra Cadabra" by Black Sabbath - Guitar Tone Settings

E flat standard, as with most of Sabbath's early catalogue. This is the most upbeat thing on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath — a boogie riff rather than a doom riff — and Rick Wakeman guests on piano and synthesiser, which is why the second half sounds unlike anything else the band recorded. Iommi's fingertips were partly amputated in a factory accident and he wore homemade thimbles and used very light strings tuned down, which is the root of both his tone and his heavy vibrato: light gauge at low tension bends almost too easily. Keep the gain lower than modern metal instinct suggests, mids up, and let the riff swing rather than chug. Metallica covered this in 1998, which is how most younger listeners found it.