Gilmour Sound

Hey, was just curious, whats more important to achieve a good gilmour/floyd sound, Delay or Compression(sustain)? I'm thinking like from the Animals/Wall era. Most of his style comes from his fingers as is well know, but was just wondering what would be another good way to achieve that sound?

Thanks for the comments

it cannot be achieved with just one effect..

out of those I would definately say delay.. as it is Davids favourite..

But also Flange, and a Muff..

Cheers,
Adrian

Delay, compressor/sustain, Big Muff, Electric Mistress, Hiwatt amps, Fender guitars.

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i think the expressions in the scales he uses is most important too. a good mixture of the pentatonics and dorians

Hiwatts arent necessary.. I dont believe so anyway.

Now, they are not. I was just listing up things from my memory in random order.

But the real sound is in his fingers, actually.

Cool thanks. I have a Muff and BD-2 right now, was just wondering what of the two was more important (It is christmas time =)

DELAY, compression is important, but..............its not delay. so get a delay.

Sweet thanks... One more thing, I;m not really familiar with delay, so will it be hard to figure out? or like to make it sound good?

I reckon with an hour or so mucking around.. you will know what to do.

But delay is an awesome effect...

Awesome cant wait! thanks

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That's right! The ultrasound team

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I have a J.S. (Joe Satriani) series Ibanez and a good Dean Markley amp and I can play most pink floyd songs and get the same guitar sound as in the songs by just using Gilmours fingering style and certain setting on the amp. IMHO that's all thats really NEEDed (as listed above) but there are many WANTs for perfection of Gilmours sound e.g. Delay,etc.

You cant play like Gilmour without a singlecoiler, a strat actually...