No. 0581973·progressive-rock·5 blocks
Money
David Gilmour's Money solo is really three solos. The clean, double-tracked opening and the spacious middle run on the Black Strat's bridge pickup through a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and a Binson Echorec for the repeats; the more aggressive third section brings in his humbucker-loaded Bill Lewis Custom. It was tracked at Abbey Road (1973) with Alan Parsons into a Hiwatt DR103 and/or Fender Twin. The 'recorded direct' story is a myth — it was amp-and-mic. Per Bjorn Riis/gilmourish.com, the overdrive method isn't fully logged, so the Fuzz Face attribution is a reconstruction.
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Guitar
Fender 'Black Strat' (1969) — Bill Lewis Custom on the third section
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge (Black Strat) for solos 1-2; the humbucker-equipped Bill Lewis Custom handles the more aggressive section
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Fuzz Face
Hipower 100
4x12 WEM
Binson Echo
Plate Reverb
Studio Comp
← Studio/natural compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
0.1s
Release
0.6s
Mix
0.6
Level
0dB
Fuzz Face
← Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
Drive
0.8
Tone
0.6
Level
0.7
Hipower 100
← Hiwatt DR103 100W (kept clean)
Drive
4
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
6
MV
8
Cut
4
4x12 WEM
← WEM 4x12 (Fane speakers)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Binson Echo
← Binson Echorec
Time
0.3ms
Feedback
0.3
Mix
0.2
Plate Reverb
← Abbey Road ambience
Mix
0.2
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
20ms
Engineer's note
File 058
David Gilmour's Money solo is really three solos. The clean, double-tracked opening and the spacious middle run on the Black Strat's bridge pickup through a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and a Binson Echorec for the repeats; the more aggressive third section brings in his humbucker-loaded Bill Lewis Custom. It was tracked at Abbey Road (1973) with Alan Parsons into a Hiwatt DR103 and/or Fender Twin. The 'recorded direct' story is a myth — it was amp-and-mic. Per Bjorn Riis/gilmourish.com, the overdrive method isn't fully logged, so the Fuzz Face attribution is a reconstruction.
— David Gilmour
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