David Gilmour: Equipment Analysis

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1983 American 57 Reissue

EMG David Gilmour signature active pickup set.

Maple C Shape Neck 7.5 radius.

3-way pickup selector.

Custom Shortened vintage tremolo arm.

Alder body

Gold hardware and pick guard

Although has #0001 serial number, is not the rst Stratocaster.

Believed to be a showpiece model or employee gift

Ash white body

5-way pickup selector.

Kluson deluxe tuners.

1960s Custom Seymour Duncan Pickups

According to Seymour Duncan, Davids #0001 Stratocaster has a 1957 light mint greenash body and a 1957 neck, from two separate guitars

Signature Fender Stratocaster The Black Strat

Red Fender Stratocaster 1983 American 57 Reissue

The #0001 Stratocaster

GuitarsDavid Gilmour is most widely assosciated with the Fender Stratocaster, particularly his Black Strat which was purchased at Mannys in NewYork City and has accompanied him throughout his entire career and has scene many alterations following the initial acquisition. Although,this black Fender Stratocaster is the instrument with which he is most commonly assosciated, it is actually his second black Fender Strato-caster, his rst having been stolen on tour.

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Seymour Duncan SSL-5 (bridge) pickup

Custom Wound (middle) pickup

Custom Wound Fat 50s (neck) pickup

Custom Shortened vintage tremolo arm.

Maple C Shape Neck 7.5 radius.1968 Alder Body

On/O ff Switch for neck pickup

21 Vintage frets

Alder Body


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Assorted Fender TelecastersEarly 60s blonde Telecaster, Late 1950s brown Telecaster, 1959 Custom Telecaster, 1955 Esquire, 1952 Reissue Telecaster,Custom Shop Telecaster

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Assorted Gibson Les PaulsGibson Les Paul TV Special, Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty, Gibson 1955 Les Paul Gold Top, Gibson 1956 Les Paul Gold Top

Strings Picks

GHS Signature Boomers 10-46 Herco Heavy Gauge


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Univox Univibe Pete CornishVolume Pedal

Cry Baby Wah MXR NoiseGate/Live Driver

Pete CornishTone Pedal

Volume 6/10

Intensity 5/10

Slow Speed 6/10

Fast Speed 8/10

Dallas ArbiterFuzz Face (109)

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EHX Big Muff 1973 Ram Head

Pete Cornish G-2 MXR Phase 90 EHX Small Stone

Volume 7/10

Fuzz 10/10

Voume 6/10

Sustain 7/10

Tone 4/10

Volume 6/10

Tone 4/10

Sustain 10/10

Mix 5.5/10 Mix 5.5/10

EHX ElectricMistress

Pete CornishST-2

MXR Dynacomp MXR DDL Binson Echo

Color 4/10

Range 4/10

Rate 3.5/10

Output 6/10

Sensitivity 4/10

Delay 1 370ms Re-peats 6 Mix 3/10

Delay 2 1500ms Re-peats 6 Mix 3/10

Delay 310ms repeatmode

Eff ects

Treble 4/10

Bass 5/10

Volume 5/10

Volume 7/10 (alt)


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David had over ten Hiwatt heads on the Dark Side of the Moontours in 1973-75 and he always performed sound check on themall himself to make sure they sounded right.

The setup for The Wall was pretty much the same as both Dark Side and Animals with thecustom rack including three Hiwatt heads (two mains and one spare) powering four WEMcabs. He also had a Mesa/Boogie head, which he used as a pre-amp for overdrives set upin a send/return chain to the pedal board.

Davids Hiwatts were now modi ed with combining the normal and brilliance inputs. Acommon trick to make the rather dark British amps sound a bit brighter without loosingthe lower frequencies.

1969-1972

1973-1977

1979-1982

Ampli ers

Settings (current) Bass 10:00 Middle 11:00 Treble 12:00 Presence 1:00 Normal Volume 2:00 Brilliant Volume 1:00 Master Volume 11:00

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Hiwatt DR103 All Purpose 100W heads with Mullard 4xEL34 powertubes and 4xECC83 pre-amp tubes. Controls for normal volume,brilliance volume, bass, middle, treble, presence and master.WEM Super Star nder 200 cabinets with 4 12 Fane Crescendospeakers with metal dust caps.


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During the Division Bell tour in 1994 Davids rig consisted of overwhelming six Hiwatt

heads in two separate racks, not mentioning all the spares he travelled with. All headshad the preamp section either removed or disconnected as in 1988-90 with the Alembicserving as the main preamp for the rig.

Rack 1 consisted of the classic three DR103 heads modi ed with norm/brill input comboand preamps disconnected. One head was a spare, while the two mains powered each aWEM Super Star nder 200w cab with 4 12 Fane Crescendo speakers and a MarshallJCM 800 400w cab with 4 12 Celestion G12M speakers. The left channel was colouredby a Boss CE-2 chorus for a wider stereo.

Rack 2 consisted of three STA-100 slave heads (no preamp section). One powered the Heil Talk Talk box, while the two remaining powered the Doppola rotating speakers

On the On an Island tour in 2006 David went back to the classicearly 70s three Hiwatt heads setup, now using the preamps in theheads. Two heads were powering one WEM cabinet each and thethird head was used for the Sound On Sound delay e ff ect with athird WEM cabinet.

1994

1994

2006

The setup for The Wall was pretty much the same as both Dark Sideand Animals with the custom rack including three Hiwatt heads(two mains and one spare) powering four WEM cabs. He also hada Mesa/Boogie head, which he used as a pre-amp for overdrivesset up in a send/return chain to the pedal board.

Davids Hiwatts were now modi ed with combining the normaland brilliance inputs. A common trick to make the rather dark British amps sound a bit brighter without loosing the lower frequencies.

Ampli ers

Settings (current) Bass 10:00 Middle 11:00 Treble 12:00 Presence 1:00 Normal Volume 2:00 Brilliant Volume 1:00 Master Volume 11:00


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