David gilmour guitar rig
Documentation of Gilmour playing this guitar is difficult to find, though footage of a short guitar jam session with Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) at Abbey Road Studios was released in Europe on a. David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist of all time belonging to my favorite band of all time Pink Floyd. David Gilmour purchased the guitar in the late 70s for an unknown sum that allowed Taylor to purchase a house soon afterwards. At this stage, Pete Cornish had removed all the preamps the the Hiwatts and the Alembic now served as the main preamp for the whole setup. David Gilmour - Much of the same can be said of David Gilmour, minus the character aspect. This setup was used on all tours from 1974-1981.Īfter using a slightly different rig in 19 mainly consisting of Fender and Mesa/Boogie amps and the Alembic was once again featured in David’s 1988- rigs. In the 70’s the Alembic served as the main preamp for David’s Leslie rotating speaker cabinets - later the Yamahas - which again where mixed with the signal from the Hiwatts. The Fender medium pick is Gilmours pick of choice for most general purposes, as it provides a good balance between grip and flexibility. They placed an extra tube in the preamp section to give it a little more drive, lowered the impedance in the output and changed the capacitor in the bottom end to eliminate some of the lows.
It acts as an EQ enhancing the lower sub frequencies. Yamaha RA-200 Leslie Amp Used around 1977. Fender Twin Reverb Amps Used around 1972. David started using these amps in 1969, and still uses them today. Originally, the Alembic belonged to Waters and as an experiment Phil Taylor tried it in David’s rig. David Gilmour’s Guitar Amps: Hiwatt DR103 100W Used with WEM Super Starfinder 200 cabinets with 4×12 Fane Crescendo speakers. Gilmour used this guitar for one tour back in 1972. This guitar was made specifically for Gilmour by Dick Knight, and it featured two different Fender necks one rosewood and one maple. Using preamps in addition to the Hiwatts and Leslies was nothing new as David had also incorporated HH Electronic IC-100 solid state bass amps on the 1971-72 tours. Among other interesting models in his collection, the Double-neck Stratocaster has got to be the most interesting one. The F-2B is a stereo preamp with a 12AX7 tube in each section and controls for bass, treble mids and volume and a bright/normal switch. The Alembic appeared in the late 60’s inspired by the cirquit on the Fender Dual Showman amps.