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My main point was that in your average gig setting there are lots of ways of getting an appropriate tone, and it's the phrasing and feel that matters more than precise replication of DG's tone. I doubt that a bit of reverb would ruin the solo by itself but thanks for clarifying that is not in the recording.
The ‘final’ version will be put down in a studio - but I’ve been getting a feel for what I’ll play on the day, by recording many improvised passes on my home set up. My admiration for the Comfortably Numb solo has greatly increased - it’s bloody difficult to play a long, memorable - and emotionally charged - solo. I think it’s considered a masterpiece with some justification....
If I have one delay, I put a tad of Reverb on myself.
I know the settings inside out, as I have a post it note from Phil Taylor with those and the Echoes settings on them from the 2006 shows.
Also, it depends which era.
Orig: Rams Head, Poweboost, elec miss MXR delay and Leslie
1987: Rams Head Boss CE2 MXR
1994; Sovtek muff, Tube Driver, CE2 TC2290 and Dynacord CLS222
2001: TUbe Driver and Cornish Echo, no muff, 1957 Gretsch!
2005; Cornish G2, Tube Driver, Cornish Echo- no modulation
2006: Cornish P1, Tuber Driver, Cornish Echo
2016; Sovtek muff, elec miss, Source EQ, 2 flight time delays.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I used to cover this a few years ago, and used a combination of three/four pedals to get the sound. I think I went:
compressor
muff
drive
delay
I swapped and changed the actual pedals I used, but I mostly used Boss CS-2, homemade Muff clone, modified Boss BD-2, and Boss DD-2.
The compressor will help you with the sustain, but I recall getting quite a lot from the Muff too.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPxKq-gMDo
I honestly think it's more down to the feel with Gilmour and how he holds the notes ...even with a fairly clean sound like shine on you crazy diamond the notes just seem to ring out ...
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
That's cos he only used compression on it in 94. He stopped after that and before that.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Compressor does help though.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
The second solo can be approximated by adding delay and chorus to the same drive pedal and boost. Again most of the solo is in the phrasing.
CN is a very tricky solo to get to sound good, none of the parts are technically difficult but the timing of it and the flow is really hard to nail, it's easy to rush it and overdo the quicker licks. It's extremely difficult to mimic someone else's phrasing, especially in a piece this long, it's like trying to do a really good Christopher Walken impression for 3 minutes straight