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
Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
Binson Echorec
Hiwatt DR103 100W (and/or Fender Twin Reverb)
WEM 4x12 (with a rotating Leslie/Maestro cab mixed low)
Neumann U87 (~1-1.5 ft from the cab)
Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
fuzz
Fuzz
100
Volume
70
Binson Echorec
delay
Hiwatt DR103 100W (and/or Fender Twin Reverb)
preamp
Volume
6
Treble
6
Middle
6
Bass
5
Presence
6
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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