Just a suggestion, you can get to a pretty close sound on that solo with a strat, using mid or neck pickup position and roll-off a little bit of treble. try a boost pedal or comp out to overdrive, then to a digital delay 400-800 ms, amp with some(Lots) reverb wash. His playing style is definitely a signature sound though. In the solo he does some interesting stuff muting some of the strings of a chorded position until the last note that sounds unmuted as part of the solo line. All about sustain on that song, you need to have enough push to keep the notes sounding for that long!!
I can hear differences like active or passive, no dynacomp or dynacomp etc... but his playing is what creates such sweet sounds like compound bends and such, Dave has an incredible sense of melody and the chops to back it up. I was never completey floored with his playing but I find his solos much more musical than most finger tapping side show freaks. I think you can get close with a fender twin, fender strat, and a fuzz box. It really depends on the era of Dave's sound you are going for which will dictate certain nuances, I think on the wall he uses compression unlike some of the earlier stuff etc...
Check out David Gilmour doing PF on acoustic guitar(solo!!!) on Utube.
Sweet. No effects just his digits.
Sweet. No effects just his digits.
have to agree it's the player... maybe in 20,000 hours....
one onther thing i noticed is that he's been using a set of BK Butler pedals for a while also.... supposedly responsible for the 'violin tone,' according to an interview on the BK butler site...
search on David Gilmore unplugged
I think you will find the best of him there, on acoustic guitar 😉
happy new year
I think you will find the best of him there, on acoustic guitar 😉
happy new year
David Gilmour is not magic.
Yes he plays the guitar, but he is not the guitar, he can't just pick up any $15 combo with any setting and all of a sudden sound like Floyd.
Same with Jimi Page.
If you picked up his guitar after a show, did a nice slow bend, voila you sound like David Gilmour, for a fleeting moment.
Vibrating strings are isolated from the user via frets and bridge. The guitar does not know who is playing it.
Yes he plays the guitar, but he is not the guitar, he can't just pick up any $15 combo with any setting and all of a sudden sound like Floyd.
Same with Jimi Page.
If you picked up his guitar after a show, did a nice slow bend, voila you sound like David Gilmour, for a fleeting moment.
Vibrating strings are isolated from the user via frets and bridge. The guitar does not know who is playing it.
we used to do a LOT of pink floyd live. the really essential ingredients for me personally, were a strat (tho i'd use one of my firebirds, les paul, whatever i had on and it didn't seem to matter all that much on the solo in question...again, 90% of your tone is in your fingers, attack, vibrato and phrasing...all the stuff that matters most if you want to emulate sir david or any other player, for that matter) and a decent tube amp with the master and preamp about the same level...a fuzz into overdrive to get cream and sustain with plenty of harmonics, a clone theory (or similar analog chorus) set to just the slightest shimmer, a decent echo (plex for me usually in the old days, tho i'm not too precious about it...if it echoes, i can probably make it work) and a bit of reverb...not enough to swamp it, but enough to make it breathe. this was based on seeing the WYWH/animals tour long ago.
when i saw the momentary lapse tour, EVERYTHING was SWAMPED in digital delay into digital reverb...huge.
but the big thing really is the man's phrasing. study that, and you can indeed sound quite a bit like the man.
here's a really bad example..
https://picasaweb.google.com/113479385538893044211/CelebrateEastLyme2010#5495446566824786386
but the key is less what you play thru than what you play, imho.
peace
when i saw the momentary lapse tour, EVERYTHING was SWAMPED in digital delay into digital reverb...huge.
but the big thing really is the man's phrasing. study that, and you can indeed sound quite a bit like the man.
here's a really bad example..
https://picasaweb.google.com/113479385538893044211/CelebrateEastLyme2010#5495446566824786386
but the key is less what you play thru than what you play, imho.
peace
Its both to some degree.
The player is just the input, or the source. You hear the amplifier and effects.
"Playing" like David Gilmour and "Sounding" like David Gilmour are two different things, in the context of this conversation.
The way he palms mutes or bends does not magically transform the effects.
Just trying to dispel some of the myth.
I promise you you can change Gilmour`s sound by messing with the dials. Though his style will be the same.
Its a two-fold question I suppose.
The player is just the input, or the source. You hear the amplifier and effects.
"Playing" like David Gilmour and "Sounding" like David Gilmour are two different things, in the context of this conversation.
The way he palms mutes or bends does not magically transform the effects.
Just trying to dispel some of the myth.
I promise you you can change Gilmour`s sound by messing with the dials. Though his style will be the same.
Its a two-fold question I suppose.
well, yes and know...it would probably still sound like him. you may change the tonal settings, but his phrasing, attack, and vibrato are the most crucial elements imho.
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