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Pink Floyd
Creamy fuzz-driven sustain, huge ambience.
The Comfortably Numb guitar tone is creamy fuzz-driven sustain, huge ambience, heard on Pink Floyd's 1970s prog rock recording. It is a distorted solo tone, and Pink Floyd reportedly tracked it with fender Stratocaster with a Big Muff and Electric Mistress into Hiwatt heads. Sustain and ambience carry these parts, so the delay and modulation settings shape the sound as much as the amp does.
You do not need that exact gear to land in the same place. What carries this sound is the gain structure, the EQ curve, the pickup choice and the order of the effects, and all four can be rebuilt on equipment that costs a fraction of the original. The numbers change from amp to amp, because a high-gain head and a small practice amp reach the same voicing from different knob positions. That translation is what Tonelify works out for the rig you actually own.
On a generic five-knob amp, start at Gain 5.5, Bass 5, with the neck pickup for body, bridge if the lead needs to cut.
These are positions on a generic five-knob amp with gain, bass, middle, treble and presence, each running 0 to 10. They are a starting point, not the settings used on the record, and they will not transfer unchanged to an amp with a different gain structure or EQ voicing. If you tell Tonelify which amp you own, it rewrites every value above for the controls that amp actually has.
Fender Stratocaster with a Big Muff and Electric Mistress into Hiwatt heads.
Tonelify reads that chain and translates it to the amp and guitar you already own, returning gain, bass, mids, treble and presence values along with a pickup position.
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On a generic five-knob amp, start at Gain 5.5, Bass 5, with the neck pickup for body, bridge if the lead needs to cut. These are positions on a generic five-knob amp with gain, bass, middle, treble and presence, each running 0 to 10. They are a starting point, not the settings used on the record, and they will not transfer unchanged to an amp with a different gain structure or EQ voicing. The middle, treble, presence and reverb positions for this tone come with a Tonelify plan, along with the same values rewritten for the specific amp and guitar you own, because a high-gain head and a small solid-state combo reach the same creamy fuzz-driven sustain, huge ambience from different positions.
It is rarely the gain knob. Every style in the library has one control that decides whether the tone lands, and for prog rock it is named on this page for players on a plan, with a sentence on where to put it and why.
Yes. The original was tracked with fender Stratocaster with a Big Muff and Electric Mistress into Hiwatt heads, but the parts that define the sound are the gain structure, the EQ curve, the pickup position and the effects order. Those translate to other equipment, which is what the adaptation step does.
It is a solo part with a distorted character, from Pink Floyd's 1970s prog rock catalogue.
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