GuitarDistortedRiff
Echoes - Part 1 (Live at Pompeii - MCMLXXII - 2025 Mix) Guitar Tone Settings
Pink Floyd · 1970s · rock
live
Original Recording
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (early 1970s, black, maple neck, stock single coils)
Pickups
Fender single-coil pickups (stock 1970s Stratocaster)
Amp
Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100 Head with WEM Super Starfinder 4x12 cabinets
Pickup Position
Neck pickup
Live performance, filmed at Pompeii amphitheatre, 1971 (released 1972, remixed 2025). Gear confirmed by video and multiple sources. No evidence of alternate guitars or amps for the riff section.
Amp Settings
Mids7
Bass6.5
Gain4
Reverb2
Treble6.5
Presence5.5
Effects Chain
- Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face · fuzz
- Binson Echorec 2 · delay
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (early version, possibly Ram's Head) · fuzz
- Compressor (likely Colorsound or similar, model not fully confirmed) · compression
Guitar → Compressor → Fuzz Face → Binson Echorec → Hiwatt DR103 head → WEM 4x12 cabinet
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Tone Character
- violin-like sustain
- warm and smooth
- rich echo ambience
- clear, bell-like highs
- rounded attack
- touch-sensitive response
- mildly overdriven
- singing sustain
- ambient, spacey feel
- not heavily compressed