How To Sound Like David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

David Gilmour, like his Pink Floyd antecedent Syd Barrett, played a Telecaster initially, but he anon became one of the aboriginal British bedrock guitar legends to favor the Fender Stratocaster and to actualize a signature complete with the instrument. His parents bought the Tele for David's 21st birthday, and he played it for a year (including on the Saucerful of Secrets record) until it was absent by an airline. Upon clearly abutting Pink Floyd, Gilmour purchased a custom Stratocaster (the aboriginal of many) at a Cambridge music store. During the aboriginal Pink Floyd years, Gilmour played a Strat about exclusively, demography abounding advantage of its advanced tonal palette and vibrato bar in his style. He acclimated a Lewis 24-fret electric guitar on attenuate occasions for its connected range, as in the abandoned of "Money," and connected to apply a Tele sporadically in the repertory. Gilmour strung his electric guitars with Gibson Sonomatic strings fabricated of a customized light-top (using the accepted E and B for the B and G) and heavy-bottom set gauged .010, .012, .016, .028, .038, and .050. He acclimated a Herco heavy-gauge pick.NUX PA-2 David Gilmour's ancient amp bureaucracy with Pink Floyd consisted of a Selmer 50-watt arch with a 4×12 apostle cabinet. By 1970, he begin his signature complete with a assemblage fabricated of Hiwatt 100-watt active with WEM 4×12 cabinets. The Hiwatt/WEM aggregate can be heard clearly on Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon. In the studio, he sometimes added a Fender Accompanying Reverb admixture amp with two 12-inch speakers to his calendar for assertive parts, as on Dark Side of the Moon.NUX Chorus Core David Gilmour's aboriginal Floyd furnishings consisted of a Binson Echorec bandage adjournment (like Barrett, he acclimated this accessory from his aboriginal canicule with the band), a Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface down box, Uni-Vibe pedal, Vox wah-wah pedal, a DeArmond aggregate pedal, and Leslie and Yamaha RA-200 alternating apostle cabinets. The closing were baffled through the achievement sections of Hiwatt active and again to WEM 4×12 cabinets. In 1972, his furnishings boxes were army in a custom cabinet, and his arrangement of processors grew to cover a additional Binson Echorec and a additional Fuzzface, an MXR Phase 90, a Crybaby wah-wah, an Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger, Big Muff fuzz, an Orange acute and bass booster, and a custom-built accent pedal.NUX Metal Core Additionally, Gilmour acclimated flat furnishings like ADT (Automatic Double Tracking, a admired flat processor aboriginal developed at Abbey Road Studios for the Beatles), Kepex for tremolo, assorted bandage effects, flat answer chambers, and backwards guitar. He aswell active an EMS Synthi Hi-Fi guitar synthesizer (heard on "Time" on Dark Side of the Moon), and usually played a lap animate or Fender accompanying close pedal animate guitar for accelerate parts. He acclimated assorted acoustic guitars on aboriginal Floyd tracks, after clearing on Martin D-18 and D-35 models in the 1970s, and, depending on the song, alternated amid fingerpicking and arena with a plectrum.