Solo Tone

Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd

Guitarrock1970s

Original Gear

Guitar1969 Fender Stratocaster (alder body) with late-'70s Charvel birdseye maple neck

AmpHiwatt DR103 100-watt head

PickupsDiMarzio FS-1 single-coil (bridge), 1971 Fender Stratocaster single-coils (middle and neck)

Amp Settings

gain0

bass6.5

mid7

treble6.5

reverb3.5

presence6

Effects & Signal Chain

No effects used for this tone

Notes

Studio recording, The Wall (1979). Clean sections used the Stratocaster with neck and middle pickups, into a Hiwatt DR103, with parallel Yamaha RA-200 rotary speaker for modulation. No fuzz or distortion pedals for clean tone.

Tone Character(10)

warm and glassycrystal-clear articulationlush modulation from rotary speakerdynamic and touch-sensitiveslightly scooped midschorus-like shimmeropen and airysmooth top endsubtle spring reverbstudio double-tracking depth

Difficulty

While technically not fast or complex, the clean section requires excellent control of dynamics, phrasing, and vibrato to match Gilmour's expressive playing and touch sensitivity.

Sources

David Gilmour's guitar tone on Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb: how he got his sound | Guitar World How to Nail Gilmour's “Comfortably Numb” Solo | Reverb News

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