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GuitarInferred17
Time
Pink Floyd
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Likely Stratocaster bridge-pickupTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- High Gain
- Full Low End
- Bright Attack
Signal chain
- Guitar: Black Strat
- Pickup: Likely Stratocaster bridge-pickup
- Amp: Hiwatt 100W heads into WEM cabinets
- Effects: Colorsound Power Boost, Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Fizzy, sustaining fuzz/overdrive layered over a powerful clean Hiwatt foundation.
Bass
Full but controlled.
Mids
Rich enough to keep the solo vocal.
Treble
Smoothly bright rather than razor-sharp.
Brightness / presence
Open and spacious.
Compression
Strong sustain from the Fuzz Face/Power Boost chain.
Effects
Colorsound Power Boost, Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face and Binson Echorec are central to the Time solo; Hiwatt/WEM provides the foundation.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: fizzy, sustaining, spacious, vocal, warm, expressive, echoing, harmonically rich
This seed targets the famous Time guitar solo. The Dark Side-era sources consistently identify the Hiwatt/WEM platform and the combination of Colorsound Power Boost, Fuzz Face and Binson Echorec for the gnarly, echoing lead sound.
Effects
Colorsound Power Boost, Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face and Binson Echorec are central to the Time solo; Hiwatt/WEM provides the foundation.
Original Gear
Guitar
David Gilmour's Black Strat for the signature lead reference
Amp
Hiwatt 100W heads into WEM cabinets
Channel
High-headroom Hiwatt platform driven by fuzz/boost
Pickup
Likely Stratocaster bridge-pickup
