Guitar sound on SOYCD

I've been trying to figure out the exact (or similar) guitar effects when Gilmour comes in with his guitar in the very beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. For effects, I have a Zoom 707II guitar effects pedal, could anyone help me out as to what settings I should play around with to achieve that sound? Thanks!


h

man, if i could only answer THIS question....

maybe this helps?....

http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/p...equipment.html

Great site - real thorough information, not quite what I was looking for though. Thanks anyway.


h

Hockey fan - here's what I do.
I got a Fender strat w/ texas special pups.
I play through a good tube head that's real clean.
I use the neck pick-up (Fattest one on the strat), roll back the treble on the guitar about halfway, add my Keeley compressor, and voila!! - pretty close. Now just play like you're a bad ass bluesman!!!

To get that tone you got to play it with real confidence and a strat on the sweet spots (which gilmour finds so damn well)..

Hope this helped..

Hockyfan - The keeley unit is a compressor.
There are numerous descriptions on the web describing guitar compression. Do a search.
It basically smoothes everything out and gives great sustain on even a clean strat.

Excellent.....I'll take a look at my pedal.


h

Not so high where your sound is "squashed" and lacking in any dynamics/feel in your playing. Just enough where you know it's doing something and then that's probably too much. Compression is tricky.....

Here's what my pedal has:

Isolator/Compression Module :

Compression-

Attack (choice of fast or slow) - adjusts time interval from signal onset to start of compression

Sens (setting range of 1-10) - adjusts compressor sensitivity

Level (setting range of 1-8) - adjusts signal level after passing module.


There is also an isolation module, let me know if that would apply. Regarding the above information on the settings, and advice on what those numbers/settings should be? Thanks.


h

hocky - check this out.

Good luck!

http://www.harmony-central.com/Effec...s/Compression/

Excellent site! Any help on what isolation does though?


h

Sorry - never hear that term.

I think that a good example of compressor use is the money solo in DSOTM studio

Well, he also uses a different guitar on that then the usual Strat.


h

really? I though he only used another guitar on Brain Damage

I remember reading it in one of the sites listed above, I think it was a Les Paul.


h