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How to get the Comfortably Numb guitar tone

Pink Floyd

Mid-gain crunch that sits somewhere between a bar fight and a lullaby — crunchy enough to bite but controlled enough to sing. The EQ sits fairly balanced, which puts all the expressive work back on touch and technique rather than frequency shaping. Layer in chorus and plate reverb and echo and the whole thing takes on a dimension you can't get from the amp alone.

Gear used on the recording

GuitarVersatile (Stratocaster or HSS Superstrat)
AmpMarshall plexi / JCM800
EffectsChorus, Delay

Key tone characteristics

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