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Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)
Pink Floyd
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Neck pickupTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- Light Breakup
- Full Low End
Signal chain
- Guitar: David Gilmour 1969 black Fender Stratocaster with 1971
- Pickup: Neck pickup
- Amp: Circa 1973-74 Hiwatt DR103 with linked channels
- Effects: Leslie, MXR Phase 90
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Large, clean-to-edge-of-breakup lead tone that blooms into overdrive later.
Bass
Full and supportive.
Mids
Balanced and vocal.
Treble
Clear and spacious.
Brightness / presence
Open, airy Hiwatt clarity.
Compression
Moderate loud-clean compression with long sustain.
Effects
Leslie, MXR Phase 90 and later Colorsound Power Boost textures are documented across the multi-part performance; ambience is spacious.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: spacious, clean, singing, airy, sustained, psychedelic, expressive
Targets Gilmour's iconic first clean neck-pickup entrance as the representative tone. Later sections switch pickups and add Phase 90/Power Boost, so this seed does not pretend the entire 13-minute piece is one static sound.
Effects
Leslie, MXR Phase 90 and later Colorsound Power Boost textures are documented across the multi-part performance; ambience is spacious.
Original Gear
Guitar
David Gilmour 1969 black Fender Stratocaster with 1971 Fender pickups
Amp
Circa 1973-74 Hiwatt DR103 with linked channels into WEM/Fane cabinet architecture
Channel
Linked Hiwatt Normal + Brilliant channels, clean/edge-of-breakup reference
Pickup
Neck pickup for the iconic opening clean lead reference
