Apart from a Jimi Hendrix or an Eric Clapton solo…I think Gilmour’s solo in this song is the greatest rock guitar solo of all time. It’s bad ass af without being over-the-top; it’s so refined and smooth and perfectly executed without being pretentious. It’s a perfect solo. It’s beautiful 💯

Wow! Nailed it, and I can't believe it's Guitar Rig!

Chris... I'm strongly starting to suspect, that you may be a genius!

that goldtop tone is bloody fantastic, p90's are so underrated

Thank you for providing such insight and expanding our horizons. Great video.

Sounds f***in brilliant, mate! Thanks for taking me on this journey!

I love those Yamaha’s with p90s. Such a nice feeling and sounding guitar

Thank you Chris.... a really great exposition of the background to the sound of the solo. Also your mastery of Logic is exemplary. I will now have a place to go to try to sound a little like Mr DG...once I have mastered the notes !! :-0

Yesss another great one 👌👍💪👏

Insanely good video mate. Thank you 🙏🏻

spot on! thanks for sharing!

David Gilmour is the reason I started playing the guitar in the first place and is the reason I bought my Fender Strat Fat Deluxe in 1999. Cool video bro! :)

As usual...nailed it!

You nailed it. Great job!

The thing I got from this was how much note selection changed the way you sounded... when you played like him, you sounded like him but when you started playing in your style you sounded nothing like him even with his tone. I think it’s much more in that than in what gear and settings you use, that’s just there to bring it out more.

Quite tasty CB. Glad I own a Mesa. I love their clean sound.

Very interesting. Great video - thanx!

Fantastic approximation. Well done 👍🏼

Great as always!

That was beautiful!

Ver nice! Thank you. 👍🏼👍🏼

Love your videos, love your playing, love your taste in gear....

You’re brilliant!

Great as always sir!

That sounds excellent.

Chris, watched 2 fretworks now, I'm hooked. Love your breakdown. Thanks. Subscribed.

That sounded amazing! Nicely done....👍

Very nice! Very glad I found your channel.

Very well done! Excellent deconstruction and recreation

Brilliant playing by you.

Thanks Chris. Not obsessed with obtaining that sound, but it's really cool to learn how to approach that via software.

That was really cool!! Thanks

Sounds awesome well dialed.....I've just replicated it myself using the DBX160 and 2 x 1176 compressor plugins although I also added a very short slap delay which helped thicken the verb trails going to grab another comp pedal and see if this can be done live .

Great stuff Chris! before I clicked, I thought I could give you a little grief for releasing a Gilmour video today after your earlier announcement today, Then I saw you playing your p90 revstar and was stoked. That's my favorite revstar and I didn't know you played one until you replied to my IG comment earlier this week saying its your most used revstar, Then I watched the video and learned tons of new stuff.... You, my friend, are firing on all cylinders.

Beautiful explanation...

Dude your Revstar is a beautiful looking and sounding guitar! Wow I always thought he used a Strat with out of phase pickups ( neck + bridge wired together ) I did have the heavy compression part right but could never get it right with my strat(s)......great video !!

The best part for me was noticing the grolsch bottle neck washer as guitar strap stopper 👍I use this

I love the Synchronicty album in the back...

Well done, thanks

Brilliant

Well done, you got that sound as close as you can get it. It’s beautiful. I’ve never played p90’.... I’m tempted being that I play mostly clean.

Nicely done, sounds very close to Gilmour to me! 😎👍👍

Really close. Thanks for the inspiration

Love this! I love it when it turns out that players whove become famous for one particular type of guitar,. from one particular brand ,.have used other brands on some of their iconic pieces of music. I think gear (although a lot of fun to discuss and debate,.) can sometimes overshadow hard work creativity. I love that Jimmy Page recorded most of Led Zeppelin 1 on his Telecaster despite being known for playing a les Paul, and that Gilmore recorded this solo despite being know as a "strat guy".

Nicely done. Les Pauls with P-90s are fantastic.

Cool exercise!

I would just say in terms of ambiance, David Gilmour gravitated more towards delay than reverb. That said, this sounds hella good and really great video!

Thx Chris I didn’t know he used lespsul and your chain was nice trick to me.

Really cool vid. I just got a POD Go (basically helix but lower dsp) and what I’ve done is used the Cali IV amplifier which I believe is a MK IV Mesa. I’m using the same Yamaha Revstar 502 in bullet green I think. I’ve put the bass at 7, treble and mids at 6. I bumped the sag, hum, and bias to 7 to give it more of a real tube amp feel. I’ve added an LA studio compressor at the end of the signal chain and and LA studio compressor just before that in the limiter setting. I’ve used the standard Cali cabinet, with an 84 condenser mic at 1 inch. It sounds pretty good so far. I’ve not added the spring reverb yet but I will. I’ve noticed that I’m definitely getting that pop and a tone that isn’t far from the original recording. I’ve been listening to the original track over and over again, and while some parts the tone is spot on, I think in others, especially the 2 1/2 step bend there isn’t enough sustain to carry that note if you play it as gilmour originally did only picking once. I’ve also noticed at the end of the solo during the last couple bars that it sounds like it is much more heavily distorted. I don’t know if that’s because he had his gain set higher and was dynamically picking, or he had his volume rolled throughout most of the solo. I suspect it’s the latter, as the raked picking and sharp picked notes on the high e string in the midsection suggest he was picking fairly aggressively. I’ve painstakingly gone through this solo, as it’s one of those that I’ve always thought I’d played close to the original, but there’s always more to learn. When I feel that it’s at least 95% I’ll post a video of the cover. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Appreciate you cutting out some of the leg work for me.

Very nice.

Thanks man! I would not have come up with the idea putting a limiter BEFORE the compressor chain! But it really nails the tone quite well.

Nicely done

You have my sub. Well done !

I have a Fat 50s in the neck of my strat and I can get the tone pretty close as well. Either way Gilmour tones are just fantastic.

Great video and... a big hard drive in your computer... more than one hour mainly of nothing to play few licks. Thanks Chris !!!

Nice cover in the back!

Tomorrow, I'm going to order a Revstar! :D

I love YOUR playing Chris! More on what that Yamaha is?

Chris, excellent work. Question, how do you get rid of the single coil 60 cycle hum when soloing the neck pickup? Thanks

I love the analysis.I would say what your hearing in the desk doesn't account for "Roomverb..Ingvie Malmsteen put lagre stacks in a small room to make it 'breathe'..And played outside the room with the door open..With (of all people) BobEzrin..That tone is just awesome for jazzy licks in a rock format..Well done ....The future of music is as bright as your good self....Kudos ..I subbed.

Chris Thank you very much for demo. super

Great video, very informative! One thing though, look ahead on your compressor doesn't do anything while monitoring, only during playback

Very nice video. Could you do this with the Helix as well ? How? Thank you

Nice one, fella

great

Nice. I wonder what those same settings would sound through a strat they are single coils after all.

Why do you use and record the bus? I’m just getting into mixing and logic more, and I’m wondering what that adds to the overall mix

Hi Cris, P90's are great but they hum (single coil) ,how did you get rid if the 60/50 cycle hum noise in this video?? Thanks in advance!

Nice.

From an audio engineering point of view, it’s very likely they actually used a 1176LN and a LA2A (or maybe LA3A) before the amp. If you want to try to reproduce it with an analog path only, you can always try with some pedals that emulate those compressor such the Cali76 and Effectrode PC-2A.

Never knew outside juventus, Dybala also teaches us guitar solos and is a grand Pink Floyd fan.

You can still manage it with a Strat, especially with neck neck/mid pickups, and a Electro Harmonix Ram's head big muff. I do pretty well tone wise with my Strat Plus lace sensors. Again, the Ram's head big muff helps a lot too. I've only been noodling with it and might get a bit more serious with it soon. Such a cool solo and deserves to be done proper. Gonna give it a go with my Jazzmaster/P 90s when I get it back from the shop.

Lord With That Tone! I'de Be Jamming By Calendar Date's! 📆🎸🔊🎼

David Gilmour is a Awesome Guitarist. His Solo On Another Brick in The Wall part 2 Is Awesome Killer Solo.

Thankyou.

How do you get the amazing sound of comfortably numb amazing solos?

Hey Chris awesome breakdown of DG tone, btw which monitor speakers do you recommend in general for output of Logic/ Guitar rig ive always had problems in that are with disappointing tone, thx !

And all this time I though that solo was cut on a Strats neck pickup. But my ears are shot.

Wow I always thought that this solo was recorded with that white strat Gilmour has,I heard the odd rumour it was a Les Paul but this is great stuff to learn about,hearing that brick in the wall album on cd for the first time was me hooked on electric guitar for life,thats a very hard sound to emulate.

Reporting in from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Whats the story behind the revstar? Was it like an impulse buy, or were you looking specifically for a p90 equipped guitar? did you pit it against others? Sorry for all the questions man, but I m on the search for my first guitar with soapbars, and I ve been eyeing this yamaha for a while

Great video, it would be super awesome if you could do a video like this for both solos from Pink Floyd The Wall Comfortably Numb studio version If you by chance thought the tone from Another Brick In The Wall pt.2 was at all kind of hard to replicate, Comfortably Numb should be a task. Thanks again.

Fun fact, Dave also used a custom double cutaway dual humbucker (Les Paul clone) on the solo for Money as legend has it, his Strats only had 21 frets at the time.

Where is that David Gilmour video snippet where he talks about his Les Paul from? Looks beautiful

Very convincing explanation and excellent playing Chris, thanks a lot. May I suggest that perhaps the missing ingredient could be Gilmour's fingers?

It’s weird seeing you with without your signature jumper haha

It's nice to see, that Chris have also dust on his guitars xD But my question: Is it possible to reach the tone with the tone knobs on the guitar?

Damn I need to dig out my 502 and play it.

that sounded great, I do a very similar thing but add a bit of a clean boost, I think it sounds more like the solo, just enough so you can kind of here a little bit of the boost and that for me gets very close

Nice ine

Excellent! I also read that Ezrin actually mixed the dry and overdriven sound which preserves the "twang" which otherwise gets a bit quashed through distortion/overdrive. I wish I'd known this before I did my version (check my channel or search for "Wall Solo Goldtop 1954" - since I did it on a 54 Goldtop) where I used limiter/compressor/od but no mixing.

People who research David Gilmour's tone invariably end up on gilmourish. That site is a treasure. I like to believe that even David himself sometimes visits the site, when he's trying to remember what gear he used way back when.

The important point is that it is a Les Paul with the P90 pick ups, not the humbucking typical Les Paul sound but the P90s - these are single coil and hence the confusion with the Strat single coils. But a Les Paul with single coils is a bit like a fuller Strat sound due to the better sustain from these guitars.

Cheers Chris, sounds good to me, maybe a tape saturation plug in for a bit more warmth and harmonic jiggery pokery, but hey, you have to stop somewhere. Wonder how loud it was monitored at as well, for a little guitar/speaker interaction. Oh dear, nerd mode engaged, I do apologise. :)

What string gauge did you use?

anybody know the source of the Gilmour video at 0:53 it looks like it's worth a watch!!

So I have one technical question, What gauge Strings are you using?

That’s Sir David Gilmour to you!

I had a Yamaha Revstar 520 with P90’s and it was £525 I think and it was my favourite sounding rock/blues guitar. I sold it when I was broke if anyone is curious.

As I understood it the sound was an early example of re-amping as well. In other words the solo was already laid down on tape. It was recorded through a D.I. box on if whose functions is to impedance match the high output impedance of a guitar pick up to the low impedance inputs of a mic preamp. After recording, Gilmour thought the tone sounded too thin and the solo was subsequently played back from the tape through the console and out to the guitar amp rig in the studio. I'd therefore say that another element you haven't taken into account is the warmth of tape, its bass bump, as well as the effect of tape compression. Also what we don't really know is there was probably a blend of several tracks in the mix DI, reverb and re-amp to achieve a difficult to analyze and replicate blend. Gilmour discusses what I relate here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9R3abVyv5avh6c.html

What’s the exactly p90 pickup neck model he use in the perfect solo?