Fender Twin is the Top. His sound is between Hiwatt ( Jumped ) and Fender Twin ( Blackface ).+1 I will try using a Fender and Hiwatt amp block in series. To me a lot of Gilmour’s sound is the multiple stomp, jfet and tube compressors. And that bit of phase90 or electric mistress or univibe like swirl. And you have to have a low mix of rotary to smooth out the heavy Big Muff, Fuzz Face, RAT kind of distortion stomps he favored.
I usually just use a Fender amp with tons of compression, phaser and rotary to get in the ballpark.
I´m a huge DG fan, part of the way i play, vibrato and bend notes is thanks to him.
I too went that way with different EQs and what not, but the EMG SA pickups sound different than normal SC and the PULSE tone comes from that.
This was my Axe, my PULSE tribute strat, sadly its no longer with me.
Gilmour in the 80s and 90s used an Alembic F2B preamp (which is basically a blackface dual showman/twin reverb preamp) plugged into the power amp of his Hiwatt DR103 heads.
Just search whatever he made in 80s and 90s, for example PULSE or Delicate sound of thunderDo you have a YT or tone sample of that sound? I don't think "Listen to 'The Wall'" will work for this thread
Just search whatever he made in 80s and 90s, for example PULSE or Delicate sound of thunder
Yes, but the clean base tone is basically the same, I think he used the mesa head only for overdriven tones (as he used to do for the wall tour too)DSOT is so different tonally than Pulse though...... DSOT was when he was still using the HM-2, Digital Metalizer and the rack-mounted Mesa Boogie head as a preamp, while Pulse ditched all that stuff really, save for the CE-2 chorus and went with the Civil War/Green Russian style muff and the dual Tube Drivers with the Alembic/HiWatt rig.....
Totally agreeAs popular as Pulse is with a lot of folks, I've always thought the DSOT tones were Gilmour's absolute best
Mildly off-topic but I've seen his Red Strat in real life, couple of years ago at the V&A Museum.
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Black Strat was also there.
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As popular as Pulse is with a lot of folks, I've always thought the DSOT tones were Gilmour's absolute best
Thank you for the photos!!!
My mom took me and my brother to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium. Not sure, I might have been 12 maybe.No probs. I was lucky enough to see the Pulse tour, at one of the Earl's Court dates. I was 5 years old!
Now that's good parenting...
My mom took me and my brother to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium. Not sure, I might have been 12 maybe.
the only feasible way to satisfy this Wish, is to create a new Amp model, composed of the Pre of the Double Verb Blackface Normal channel into the Power Amp of the Hiwatt Normal. Allowing you to use Hiwatt's presence and master.Best thing to try in the meantime is try some fenders mixed with the hiwatt. I think brett kingman made a gilmour preset where he mixed a vibrolux with the hiwatt. Sounded great.
But when your hobby is doing A/B comparisons to recreate an accurate match of a specific recording, there are many nuances to refine