Solo Tone

Comfortably Numb (Live)

Pink Floyd

Guitarrock1980s

Original Gear

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

AmpHiwatt DR103 100-watt half stack (live rig), Yamaha RA-200 rotary speaker (parallel, live)

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

Amp Settings

gain0

bass7

mid6

treble7

reverb5

presence6.5

Effects & Signal Chain

chorusBoss Boss CE-2 Chorus (or CE-2W)

delayUnknown Delay pedal (model unknown, likely Binson Echorec or custom rack delay)

Notes

Live performance (e.g., Live 8, The Wall tour era); clean sections use the Stratocaster into Hiwatt and Yamaha RA-200 in parallel. Settings and effects are for the clean solo section, not the distorted main solo.

Tone Character(10)

clean and shimmeringlush, modulated ambiencecrystal-clear highsrich, spatial delaysubtle rotary speaker modulationspacious, reverberant sounddynamic, touch-sensitive responsefull-bodied lowsarticulate note separationethereal, atmospheric quality

Difficulty

The clean solo requires expressive phrasing, accurate bends, and dynamic control to maintain clarity and articulation with ambient effects. Timing with delay repeats and subtle modulation adds to the challenge.