Solo Tone

Six Blade Knife

Dire Straits

Guitarrock1970s

Original Gear

Guitar1977 Fender Stratocaster (maple neck, stock pickups)

AmpMusic Man 212-HD One Thirty

PickupsFender single-coil (late 1970s stock Strat pickups)

Amp Settings

gain2.5

bass6

mid6.5

treble6.5

reverb3.5

presence5

Effects & Signal Chain

No effects used for this tone

Notes

Studio recording, 1978. Gear confirmed for Dire Straits' debut album sessions. No evidence of alternate guitars or amps for this track's solo section. No pick used; fingerstyle technique.

Tone Character(10)

warm and smoothglassy Stratocaster highstouch-sensitive and dynamicclear note separationmellow and rounded attackslightly scooped midssubtle amp reverbno audible compressionno modulation or time-based effectsfingerstyle clarity

Difficulty

The solo requires intermediate-level fingerstyle technique, dynamic control, and expressive phrasing, but does not involve fast runs or advanced technical passages.

Sources

What guitar setup did Mark Knopfler have? : r/direstraits TIL that the sound of the opening riff of 'Money for Nothing' by Dire ...

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