How to Dial In "Exciter" by Judas Priest - Guitar Tone Settings

Standard tuning. Recorded October and November 1977 at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire and finished across Advision, Trident and Utopia in London, produced by Dennis Mackay with James Guthrie engineering. It opens Stained Class at a tempo nobody in 1977 was playing, over Les Binks's double kick, and is usually named as the first recognisable speed-metal track — thrash takes its rhythmic template from here. The tone is pre-thrash in an important way: gain from a cranked Marshall rather than a pedal, treble and presence high, bass deliberately thin so the fast alternate picking reads as separate notes. Priest run two guitars throughout, Downing on a Flying V and Tipton with a brighter, more cutting voice, panned hard apart and playing harmony rather than unison, so a single guitar will always sound narrower than the record.