NOTE: This website is frequently updated. Last update September 2023
DAVID GILMOUR TONE BUILDING - This website is about the guitar tones of my favorite guitarist, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. What do each of the pedals David Gilmour used do and how do you set them to get similar Pink Floyd tones? Which pickups, amps, and speakers work best for those tones? Here is a general guide to the gear and how to get many of the various tones throughout Gilmour's career. There are audio clips demonstrating building basic Gilmour tones using some of the same gear he used, designed to show what each individual piece of gear contributes to the sound. This is not a comprehensive song-by-song or album-by-album list by any means, just a general guide based on my research, and a deep dive into some of my favorite Gilmour tones. I also highly recommend you look at The Tone from Heaven website for some excellent information on David's 1994 and 2006 tour rigs and his Pete Cornish rigs. Gilmourish.com is another great resource with a comprehensive album-by-album gear guide, detailed reference in areas not covered here, and some great gear articles and reviews. PICKS and STRINGS - String Gauges and Picks STRATOCASTER SETUP - How to set up your Strat to work best for Gilmour style playing and tones SIGNAL CHAIN ORDER - A general guide to the signal chain order for effects in a Gilmour style rig WHAT TYPE OF AMPLIFIERS TO USE - Amps that work best for Gilmour tones WHAT TYPE OF SPEAKERS TO USE - Speakers that work best for Gilmour tones DAVID'S EARLY PINK FLOYD SOUND - Replicating David's Selmer amp tone used in the early Pink Floyd ROTARY SPEAKERS, DOPPOLAS, AND THE RA-200 - David's rotary speaker cabinets and pedals that mimic the sound (coming soon) GILMOUR'S INTEGRATED EFFECTS PEDALBOARD DESIGN - An article about Gilmour's early pedalboard design DEALING WITH BIG MUFF NOISE - How to handle the hiss from these noisy high gain pedals LINKED INPUTS - How to link Hiwatt inputs AMP SETTINGS - Hiwatt and Fender amp settings GILMOUR'S HIWATT SETTINGS - Gilmour Hiwatt settings from the 1970s to modern day GILMOUR'S BIG MUFFS - An article About the various versions David has used TUBE DRIVERS - An article bout the various versions David has used POWER BOOST and OVERDRIVER - An article bout the Colorsound pedals David has used DELAY / ECHO - Using delay and delay time settings DELAY TIME LIBRARY - A song-by-song list of delay times used by David Gilmour EMG DG-20 SA and Single Coil Pickups - Sound clips to illustrate the tone differences ALBUM AND TOUR ARTICLES 1973 Dark Side of The Moon - The effects used and sound clips The Guitar Tones of Comfortably Numb - The effects used and sound clips 1984 and About Face - The effects used and sound clips 1984-1986 - The effects used and sound clips 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason - The effects used and sound clips 1987-89 Delicate Sound of Thunder / AMLOR Tour / Venice Concert - The effects used and sound clips 1990-92 and the Knebworth Concert - The effects used, sound clips, signal chains 1994 Pulse / Division Bell Tour - The effects used, sound clips, signal chains 2006 On An Island / Remember That Night / Live in Gdansk - The effects used and sound clips 2014-2015 Endless River / Rattle That Lock - The effects used and sound clips 2015-2016 RTL Tour / Live at Pompeii - The effects used, sound clips, signal chains
Backing Tracks - A selection of backing tracks for practice to play along with or record covers The Workmate Esquire - An article on David's Fender Esquire that he calls the Workmate The Electric Mistress and Big Muff Pi - The perfect combo for The Wall and Final Cut tones Boosting a Big Muff - How to use an overdrive pedal to drive and EQ your Muff Building a Pedalboard - A blog about building my all-eras Gilmour/Pink Floyd pedal board
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