No. 0021979·progressive-rock·7 blocks
Comfortably Numb
Arguably the most famous guitar solo tone ever recorded. Gilmour's tone on the second solo of Comfortably Numb is built on a Big Muff Pi fuzz into a cranked Hiwatt, with delay adding depth and sustain. The Hiwatt provides clean headroom while the Big Muff does the heavy lifting for gain and sustain. The result is a singing, vocal-like lead tone that sustains endlessly.
The WallSignal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (Black Strat)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
MXR Dyna Comp
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head era)
Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100
Binson Echorec / MXR Digital Delay
Plate Reverb (studio)
WEM 4x12 Cabinet (Fane speakers)
Shure SM57 + Sennheiser MD421
MXR Dyna Comp
compressor
Output
7
Sensitivity
5
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head era)
fuzz
Volume
7
Tone
6
Sustain
8
Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100
preamp
Normal Vol
5
Brilliant Vol
0
Bass
4
Treble
6
Presence
6
Master
7
Binson Echorec / MXR Digital Delay
delay · FX loop
Time
440ms
Repeats
4
Mix
30
Plate Reverb (studio)
reverb · FX loop
Decay
2.5s
Mix
25
Engineer's note
File 002
Arguably the most famous guitar solo tone ever recorded. Gilmour's tone on the second solo of Comfortably Numb is built on a Big Muff Pi fuzz into a cranked Hiwatt, with delay adding depth and sustain. The Hiwatt provides clean headroom while the Big Muff does the heavy lifting for gain and sustain. The result is a singing, vocal-like lead tone that sustains endlessly.
— David Gilmour
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