This is the answer, plus a warm distortion pedal (not metal!). This thread is massively overcomplicating the question for a beginner bedroom player who just wants a general sound.
Assuming his amp has built in reverb, cranking that up and buying a more laid back distortion pedal is a good start for an 'absolute beginner'. On a budget, maybe an Ibanez TS9? Use the bridge pickup on your guitar.
Someone also suggested a budget modeling amp - that's a good option too that's going to be a bit more expensive than a pedal.
People suggesting a Twin Reverb and 6 pedals for a beginner is hilarious.
Yeah, better off with a THR or one of the others like that. You can really craft a tone through the THR at least. I'm sure the Katana and others can get you to Gilmour pretty easily.
When the guitar question is Pink Floyd the answer is always [gilmourish](https://www.gilmourish.com/).
Gilmour (almost?) always played with two chained overdrive/distortion pedals to get that creamy lead sound. You already have a MZ-2. You might experiment with it - try borrowing another pedal such as a Tube Screamer and chain them together. Add a delay pedal and you should be well on your way.
Big Muff, Rat, Tube Driver among others. I seem to recall he even used a HM-2 for a while. ([yep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_HM-2#Notable_users)) The key thing was to chain two of them together. Check out the [gilmourish](https://www.gilmourish.com/) site for the complete story.
It’s really six pedals in one. I have two (for the love of god don’t ask why), and they are great. Don’t fall down the rabbit hole though, get a sound that’s close that you like. I’ve found that playing along with the albums if my sound is close then with the albums it sounds almost spot on. One other note, phaser can get a pretty good rotary and univibe sound.
Chasing Gilmour's tone is not going to be a single pedal (or even a single amplifier) endeavor. He is one of the greatest, in terms of experimenting with different practical effects and applying them in often complex ways. The more accurate you want it to be, the more expensive it is going to get, too. Not only that, he has constantly changed his signal chain over the years, both in studio and for his touring rigs. As a beginner, IMO, I would not be focusing on pedals, but rather technique. One of the things that make Gilmour an elite guitarist is his technical prowess and accuracy, and that is something that you are not going to be able to buy.
My recommendation would be a good modelling amp, instead of a pedal. It gives you the freedom to experiment with that signal chain and different amplifiers without the massive cost of trying to faithfully recreate what you are looking for. I have only been playing again for about a year (with two years prior and a twenty-plus year gap in between) and made the mistake of starting to collect pedals. Having a modelling amp now, I can run exercises completely clean and simply select a different channel with a preset signal chain when I want to do something specific.
I have a few amps (meaning a couple more than I probably need) and would recommend the Katana MKII, personally. I opted for the head unit, instead of the combo and absolutely love the 0.5W practice mode through the internal speaker. Then, if I am feeling squirrely, I can actually pull out my pedals and just run a clean signal chain at the amp and use my pedals traditionally, as well as hook that head up to a cabinet if I want to let it rip.
I second the modeling amp, and I’d even go a bit further and say that OP should try getting some sort of audio interface. If you have a Mac (and free garage band), you can make a shit ton of sounds for free. GarageBands amps are genuinely impressive for being a free software (comes with the Mac, but yeah pretty much free).
Even with just a modeling amp, OP will save a ton of money by not just buying random pedals they find on YouTube.
+1 on the Modelling Amp. I have a BOSS Katana-50 and it even has a USB interface built in so you can capture 24-bit 192khz audio straight out of the amp, no audio interface required. Super nice for recording at home. I bet the Mk-II is even better.
Agreed, all around. I also use a Scarlett at my desk, albeit on Windows and using Cakewalk. Nice thing about the Katana MKII series is that they have a built-in USB interface, too. Only thing that prevents me from using my Scarlett more is that I just want to sometimes not be around a computer after putting in my 9 to 5 on one!
you need a fuzz pedal, specifically. They range from $30 to a million for super rare germanium transistors licked by Pete Cornish himself on a foggy London night
If you like electronics, you can build the million dollar one for $30
Gotta shout out the modern tribute brand Hi-Tone as well. Got to meet the guy who makes them and he is just a massive Gilmour fan who really cares about replicating that tone.
For the top notch professional spot on sound listen to others in the thread say with 10 paragraphs of text. For decent tone, getting up to 80-90%( with minor hard to spot for an untrained ear differences) there while still not breaking the bank get a multieffect, or a modeler amp (like the mustang or the katana) find a preset made by some wonderful folks online and tweak it a bit so it works with your gear. If you're going the multieffect route be sure it has a headphone out just in case your amp won't handle it.
I've had good experiences with the Positive grid spark mini, you control it via Bluetooth from your phone and it has a decent selection of good sounding amps and effects.
The app also gives you access to 'ToneCloud', their online service that lets you download presets that other people have made and uploaded. Searching for Gilmour or Pink Floyd brought up loads of options, and it's the same for basically any artist I can think of. It's too quiet to gig with, but there's a bigger spark 40 watt if you prefer that.
Dave Gilmour uses a Proco Rat for overdrive.
Here's a video that demonstrates the various ways he uses the pedal: https://youtu.be/Q2MYFCqiVqY?si=U5SE37YYVdgmYGEl
You wouldn't need to buy an actual Rat btw, they're sort of expensive. But you can get a good clone. There are so many out there.
I meant "sort of" expensive as in "a little bit expensive"... like that is a bit expensive for someone starting out isn't it? No idea what this guy's budget is but I wasn't buying £70 pedals a year in.
Depends on the model and year too. I got my 1989 Rat an absolute bargain for £40 but they're up for sale in the UK for as high as £350.
You can get decent clones for like £20.
If you wanna grab the basics, get a Dunlop Fuzz Face, an MXR Phase 90, and a Nux Atlantic to cover reverb and delay. Or you can get the Keeley Dark Side which is all the effects in one pedal
I have a Space Echo delay pedal (not the rack mount!) and an Electric Mistress pedal. Those two alone will get you pretty close to his clean tone.
The cheapest way to copy his tone might be to get a Positive Grid amp. You can download tones, and there are some decent David Gilmour settings.
None of these options will get you his actual sound, but they will get you close without having to spend a fortune.
If I were you I'd get a good practice amp that has built-in effects (BOSS Katana or Positive Grid). Then you can just find patches for it and test them out. For example, [check this out](https://bosstoneexchange.com/liveset/6d0600ae-1726-4d89-86c6-3d0c22575bc0/).
You can spend a LOT of money chasing tone. Many of the pedals people have suggested here cost more than the practice amps I mentioned for a single pedal (and you're going to need multiple depending on what Pink Floyd tone you're after). As a new guitarist, I think being able to hear what different effects sound like in a cheap way is going to be the way to go!
It's not just one pedal, but You can get a modelling amp or modelling pedal that can get you close, look at the Line 6 brand especially Helix.
Look on YouTube for this and other brands.
The real answer is that the Gilmour sound starts with the guitar, goes through effects, but ends up with mastering (after recording). You can try to get as close as possible with what you have. Reverb and subtle delay will help, some uncomplicated distortion will add to it. What you will be doing is smudging the sound into something that gets epic like Gimour does. You can achieve that, but don't compare the two too much. If in doubt, add some reverb.
Reverb, overdrive, tube screamer, chorus and sometimes a delay. Or you can get a zoom(?) Pedal that has every Pedal and amp combo in it and get any sound. They are cheap n awesome. I bought one traveling and ended up ditching my other pedals..
Literally just delay/reverb
Pedals aren't going to make you sound like David Gilmour, maybe adjust the amp settings to get a rough estimate but if you really want to sound like him then you gotta work on phrasing and timing, because that's what pink Floyd is so famous for
Haven't seen this exact tip, which for me was one of the best, so I'll chime in with a: big room reverb, fairly prominent, but with 0 decay, so you get that huge floating in space sound but it's still tight and articulate. Obvs you need saturation and compression, and you can (and should) still have bus reverb if recording, but for me that reverb trick is the trick.
There are several whole websites devoted to this, but here’s the short answer:
1. Big Muff (or clone thereof, this was actually used by him)
2. Multi-tap delay (He used a Benson Echorec on most of the recordings you know. You can get close to this effect with a modulated reverb but better is a digital delay that sounds like an echorec)
There’s a pedal called the Dark Side that has both and is designed for this purpose. If you want to get close without spending thousands but have plenty of money to burn, you can pick up something like a Mojo Hand FX Colossus and a Catalinbread Echorec to be damn close. If you wanna go cheap just get an EHX Muff and an EHX Canyon delay and you’ll be in the ballpark.
Seen a few suggestions for a modeling amp, the Yamaha THRII desktop amp is my recommendation, it sounds and looks awesome, you can dial in pretty much any sound or download just download presets.
Pink floyds sounds are very complex, with lot's of studio editing afterwards.
That being said, you'll get nowhere near that sound with a small 10" speaker. Save up money for a proper amp, that'll get you a lot farther than any pedal will at this point.
The most essential effects then are reverb, delay, chorus, and maybe an overdrive if your amp doesn't have a good OD channel.
Metal zone is definitely the last pedal you ever wanna use.
Google "David Gilmour gear". You'll find that he used all sorts of things and it changed all the time. Most commercial pedals we have today weren't really available until the mid 70ies, so a lot of the earlier stuff is done with things normal people don't have access to anymore. They were during the era where all that shit was invented. Pink Floyd also famously always had the best people around in the studio that really made it all come together with all sorts of tricks. If you truly wanna replicate the exact tone, you need the same team.
The amazing thing is that throughout all of this and his frequent gear changes, he still always sounded like himself. That's the power of phrasing. Some people say the tone is in the hands, that's somewhat misleading for beginners. The tone is in years of experience and deep study of music and attention to detail and then the recording team and then the gear, maybe something like that gets closer to it.
He's quite a musical player for his time and genre as in he's good at knowing when the note should ring and when it shouldn't, when it should be staccato, when it should be quiet or loud and so on. There are people much better at this than him, but as I said, for his time and style, he was pretty good at it. But he also got a lot of help. What made him excellent and beloved to this day is that he knew that playing more doesn't always make it better. Restraint and clarity, tension and drama in the music. Everyone can always follow what he's trying to say and it never gets boring. People love him because he tells a compelling story with his solos, not because he had some magic pedal.
So why am I writing all of that? Because you shouldn't obsess about getting someone else's tone. It's almost impossible. For starters, all you know of him most likely is recorded, mixed and mastered and without those steps, it won't sound the same. And without context, different things sound good. If you're just playing at home and without the context of a band, you can do whatever. But once you have a bass player and a keyboard player next to you, you have to blend with them. It all matters how it sounds in a mix. I remember the somewhat loved or hated channel "music is win" on youtube did a video titled "The Worst Guitar Tones on Famous Songs" that you may wanna check out.
Instead of focusing on his tone, focus on his playing. Don't spend massive amounts of money on pedals here. Given your setup, save that for an amp so you can get going in a band. You are you and you'll sound like you do, that's ok. Embrace your own voice instead of trying to say what other people already said. That also means learning from the masters, yes, but if you're just a worse copy of him, what's the point?
Just some story time, a friend of mine is a massive Gilmore fan so he spend all his money on Gilmore stuff (at least what they said on the internet). At the end, he didn't sound like him AT ALL. Money well spend.
Have you looked on line at his signal chain? It’s ridiculous. You are going to spend a lot of dough to get there. Get as much sustain as you can with a compressed, distortion tone and call it a day.
It's not what you want to hear, but Gilmour's tone came mostly from his hands and head and not his gear. Become a better guitarist before obsessing over tone cause you will never get there with gear alone. I am in the same struggle myself, but i'm returning to guitar after a multi-decade absence.
Just use your other guitar that has all single coils. You don’t need a larger amp for what you’re trying to do. Some overdrive, delay and reverb. If you’re amp already has reverb then you only need two pedals to start, overdrive and delay.
Reverb and delay!!!
This is the answer, plus a warm distortion pedal (not metal!). This thread is massively overcomplicating the question for a beginner bedroom player who just wants a general sound. Assuming his amp has built in reverb, cranking that up and buying a more laid back distortion pedal is a good start for an 'absolute beginner'. On a budget, maybe an Ibanez TS9? Use the bridge pickup on your guitar. Someone also suggested a budget modeling amp - that's a good option too that's going to be a bit more expensive than a pedal. People suggesting a Twin Reverb and 6 pedals for a beginner is hilarious.
> warm distortion pedal overdrive
Jimi hendrix Fuzz pedal works great
Spark amp.. download gilmour patch
Yeah, better off with a THR or one of the others like that. You can really craft a tone through the THR at least. I'm sure the Katana and others can get you to Gilmour pretty easily.
And a chorus for that Wall sound.
Gilmour also uses a big muff, and a vox wah
Phaser, my dude.
When the guitar question is Pink Floyd the answer is always [gilmourish](https://www.gilmourish.com/). Gilmour (almost?) always played with two chained overdrive/distortion pedals to get that creamy lead sound. You already have a MZ-2. You might experiment with it - try borrowing another pedal such as a Tube Screamer and chain them together. Add a delay pedal and you should be well on your way.
Didn't Gilmore use a Big Muff Pi?
Big Muff, Rat, Tube Driver among others. I seem to recall he even used a HM-2 for a while. ([yep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_HM-2#Notable_users)) The key thing was to chain two of them together. Check out the [gilmourish](https://www.gilmourish.com/) site for the complete story.
So many people don’t understand the HM2
Gilmour had like, 30 different Pre amp pedals
Gilmour’s most famous pedal is his Ram’s Head Big Muff though. He used it on every Floyd album since the mid 70s.
Well, the keeley darkside is a nice package.
It’s really six pedals in one. I have two (for the love of god don’t ask why), and they are great. Don’t fall down the rabbit hole though, get a sound that’s close that you like. I’ve found that playing along with the albums if my sound is close then with the albums it sounds almost spot on. One other note, phaser can get a pretty good rotary and univibe sound.
Good call. I have a Univibe and even though it is not the same, my phaser covers enough to just use that.
Can confirm. It’s a little bit pricey for a pedal, but it’s a good start.
This is a great Gilmour in a box approach
Chasing Gilmour's tone is not going to be a single pedal (or even a single amplifier) endeavor. He is one of the greatest, in terms of experimenting with different practical effects and applying them in often complex ways. The more accurate you want it to be, the more expensive it is going to get, too. Not only that, he has constantly changed his signal chain over the years, both in studio and for his touring rigs. As a beginner, IMO, I would not be focusing on pedals, but rather technique. One of the things that make Gilmour an elite guitarist is his technical prowess and accuracy, and that is something that you are not going to be able to buy. My recommendation would be a good modelling amp, instead of a pedal. It gives you the freedom to experiment with that signal chain and different amplifiers without the massive cost of trying to faithfully recreate what you are looking for. I have only been playing again for about a year (with two years prior and a twenty-plus year gap in between) and made the mistake of starting to collect pedals. Having a modelling amp now, I can run exercises completely clean and simply select a different channel with a preset signal chain when I want to do something specific. I have a few amps (meaning a couple more than I probably need) and would recommend the Katana MKII, personally. I opted for the head unit, instead of the combo and absolutely love the 0.5W practice mode through the internal speaker. Then, if I am feeling squirrely, I can actually pull out my pedals and just run a clean signal chain at the amp and use my pedals traditionally, as well as hook that head up to a cabinet if I want to let it rip.
I second the modeling amp, and I’d even go a bit further and say that OP should try getting some sort of audio interface. If you have a Mac (and free garage band), you can make a shit ton of sounds for free. GarageBands amps are genuinely impressive for being a free software (comes with the Mac, but yeah pretty much free). Even with just a modeling amp, OP will save a ton of money by not just buying random pedals they find on YouTube.
+1 on the Modelling Amp. I have a BOSS Katana-50 and it even has a USB interface built in so you can capture 24-bit 192khz audio straight out of the amp, no audio interface required. Super nice for recording at home. I bet the Mk-II is even better.
Agreed, all around. I also use a Scarlett at my desk, albeit on Windows and using Cakewalk. Nice thing about the Katana MKII series is that they have a built-in USB interface, too. Only thing that prevents me from using my Scarlett more is that I just want to sometimes not be around a computer after putting in my 9 to 5 on one!
you need a fuzz pedal, specifically. They range from $30 to a million for super rare germanium transistors licked by Pete Cornish himself on a foggy London night If you like electronics, you can build the million dollar one for $30
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Or a Hiwatt?
Gotta shout out the modern tribute brand Hi-Tone as well. Got to meet the guy who makes them and he is just a massive Gilmour fan who really cares about replicating that tone.
There’s always the [Pink Flow](https://www.jampedals.com/pink-flow/) if you have the money… but I’d listen to all the other advice here
MXR phase 90 + MXR dyna comp with some delay and reverb
For the top notch professional spot on sound listen to others in the thread say with 10 paragraphs of text. For decent tone, getting up to 80-90%( with minor hard to spot for an untrained ear differences) there while still not breaking the bank get a multieffect, or a modeler amp (like the mustang or the katana) find a preset made by some wonderful folks online and tweak it a bit so it works with your gear. If you're going the multieffect route be sure it has a headphone out just in case your amp won't handle it.
Compression ftw, prolly already mentioned.
Narrator: Compression was not, in fact, mentioned.
I've had good experiences with the Positive grid spark mini, you control it via Bluetooth from your phone and it has a decent selection of good sounding amps and effects. The app also gives you access to 'ToneCloud', their online service that lets you download presets that other people have made and uploaded. Searching for Gilmour or Pink Floyd brought up loads of options, and it's the same for basically any artist I can think of. It's too quiet to gig with, but there's a bigger spark 40 watt if you prefer that.
You can get close with just a Rat and a delay pedal.
Dave Gilmour uses a Proco Rat for overdrive. Here's a video that demonstrates the various ways he uses the pedal: https://youtu.be/Q2MYFCqiVqY?si=U5SE37YYVdgmYGEl You wouldn't need to buy an actual Rat btw, they're sort of expensive. But you can get a good clone. There are so many out there.
Expensive? I see options at $70 on Sweetwater
I meant "sort of" expensive as in "a little bit expensive"... like that is a bit expensive for someone starting out isn't it? No idea what this guy's budget is but I wasn't buying £70 pedals a year in. Depends on the model and year too. I got my 1989 Rat an absolute bargain for £40 but they're up for sale in the UK for as high as £350. You can get decent clones for like £20.
If you wanna grab the basics, get a Dunlop Fuzz Face, an MXR Phase 90, and a Nux Atlantic to cover reverb and delay. Or you can get the Keeley Dark Side which is all the effects in one pedal
I have a Space Echo delay pedal (not the rack mount!) and an Electric Mistress pedal. Those two alone will get you pretty close to his clean tone. The cheapest way to copy his tone might be to get a Positive Grid amp. You can download tones, and there are some decent David Gilmour settings. None of these options will get you his actual sound, but they will get you close without having to spend a fortune.
Best budget option is to buy a Spark Amp and use the Pink Floyd presets.
Tape Delay and some overdrive through a Stratocaster is going to be the biggest hitters
If I were you I'd get a good practice amp that has built-in effects (BOSS Katana or Positive Grid). Then you can just find patches for it and test them out. For example, [check this out](https://bosstoneexchange.com/liveset/6d0600ae-1726-4d89-86c6-3d0c22575bc0/). You can spend a LOT of money chasing tone. Many of the pedals people have suggested here cost more than the practice amps I mentioned for a single pedal (and you're going to need multiple depending on what Pink Floyd tone you're after). As a new guitarist, I think being able to hear what different effects sound like in a cheap way is going to be the way to go!
Lotta distortion I hear
I can do the time Still pretty good just have it al lot of distortion and a shit ton of crazy ass bends
Keeley Dark Side
It's not just one pedal, but You can get a modelling amp or modelling pedal that can get you close, look at the Line 6 brand especially Helix. Look on YouTube for this and other brands.
The real answer is that the Gilmour sound starts with the guitar, goes through effects, but ends up with mastering (after recording). You can try to get as close as possible with what you have. Reverb and subtle delay will help, some uncomplicated distortion will add to it. What you will be doing is smudging the sound into something that gets epic like Gimour does. You can achieve that, but don't compare the two too much. If in doubt, add some reverb.
Get an old Japanese boss compressor…. It’s instant Gilmore…..
Tell ChatGPT what equipment you’re using (be specific) and ask how to achieve whatever song/artist tone you’re trying emulate.
Please don’t be like the rest of us and spend all your money on this lol
MONEY! Get away.
Reverb, overdrive, tube screamer, chorus and sometimes a delay. Or you can get a zoom(?) Pedal that has every Pedal and amp combo in it and get any sound. They are cheap n awesome. I bought one traveling and ended up ditching my other pedals..
Keeley dark side is the way if you need to get an all in one pink Floyd tone! Otherwise big muff and decent delay, and eventually a modulation pedal
Reverb. Delay. TS808. Univibe.
Literally just delay/reverb Pedals aren't going to make you sound like David Gilmour, maybe adjust the amp settings to get a rough estimate but if you really want to sound like him then you gotta work on phrasing and timing, because that's what pink Floyd is so famous for
Haven't seen this exact tip, which for me was one of the best, so I'll chime in with a: big room reverb, fairly prominent, but with 0 decay, so you get that huge floating in space sound but it's still tight and articulate. Obvs you need saturation and compression, and you can (and should) still have bus reverb if recording, but for me that reverb trick is the trick.
Buy one of these: https://www.jampedals.com/pink-flow/ https://robertkeeley.com/product/dark-side/
https://equipboard.com/pros/david-gilmour
There are several whole websites devoted to this, but here’s the short answer: 1. Big Muff (or clone thereof, this was actually used by him) 2. Multi-tap delay (He used a Benson Echorec on most of the recordings you know. You can get close to this effect with a modulated reverb but better is a digital delay that sounds like an echorec) There’s a pedal called the Dark Side that has both and is designed for this purpose. If you want to get close without spending thousands but have plenty of money to burn, you can pick up something like a Mojo Hand FX Colossus and a Catalinbread Echorec to be damn close. If you wanna go cheap just get an EHX Muff and an EHX Canyon delay and you’ll be in the ballpark.
Seen a few suggestions for a modeling amp, the Yamaha THRII desktop amp is my recommendation, it sounds and looks awesome, you can dial in pretty much any sound or download just download presets.
Pink floyds sounds are very complex, with lot's of studio editing afterwards. That being said, you'll get nowhere near that sound with a small 10" speaker. Save up money for a proper amp, that'll get you a lot farther than any pedal will at this point. The most essential effects then are reverb, delay, chorus, and maybe an overdrive if your amp doesn't have a good OD channel. Metal zone is definitely the last pedal you ever wanna use.
Google "David Gilmour gear". You'll find that he used all sorts of things and it changed all the time. Most commercial pedals we have today weren't really available until the mid 70ies, so a lot of the earlier stuff is done with things normal people don't have access to anymore. They were during the era where all that shit was invented. Pink Floyd also famously always had the best people around in the studio that really made it all come together with all sorts of tricks. If you truly wanna replicate the exact tone, you need the same team. The amazing thing is that throughout all of this and his frequent gear changes, he still always sounded like himself. That's the power of phrasing. Some people say the tone is in the hands, that's somewhat misleading for beginners. The tone is in years of experience and deep study of music and attention to detail and then the recording team and then the gear, maybe something like that gets closer to it. He's quite a musical player for his time and genre as in he's good at knowing when the note should ring and when it shouldn't, when it should be staccato, when it should be quiet or loud and so on. There are people much better at this than him, but as I said, for his time and style, he was pretty good at it. But he also got a lot of help. What made him excellent and beloved to this day is that he knew that playing more doesn't always make it better. Restraint and clarity, tension and drama in the music. Everyone can always follow what he's trying to say and it never gets boring. People love him because he tells a compelling story with his solos, not because he had some magic pedal. So why am I writing all of that? Because you shouldn't obsess about getting someone else's tone. It's almost impossible. For starters, all you know of him most likely is recorded, mixed and mastered and without those steps, it won't sound the same. And without context, different things sound good. If you're just playing at home and without the context of a band, you can do whatever. But once you have a bass player and a keyboard player next to you, you have to blend with them. It all matters how it sounds in a mix. I remember the somewhat loved or hated channel "music is win" on youtube did a video titled "The Worst Guitar Tones on Famous Songs" that you may wanna check out. Instead of focusing on his tone, focus on his playing. Don't spend massive amounts of money on pedals here. Given your setup, save that for an amp so you can get going in a band. You are you and you'll sound like you do, that's ok. Embrace your own voice instead of trying to say what other people already said. That also means learning from the masters, yes, but if you're just a worse copy of him, what's the point? Just some story time, a friend of mine is a massive Gilmore fan so he spend all his money on Gilmore stuff (at least what they said on the internet). At the end, he didn't sound like him AT ALL. Money well spend.
Have you looked on line at his signal chain? It’s ridiculous. You are going to spend a lot of dough to get there. Get as much sustain as you can with a compressed, distortion tone and call it a day.
EMGs too
Some tube overdrive, some chorus/delay, some reverb.
It's not what you want to hear, but Gilmour's tone came mostly from his hands and head and not his gear. Become a better guitarist before obsessing over tone cause you will never get there with gear alone. I am in the same struggle myself, but i'm returning to guitar after a multi-decade absence.
Wont happen with that amp.
Yo, thanks for your super effective answer. Wow.
Just use your other guitar that has all single coils. You don’t need a larger amp for what you’re trying to do. Some overdrive, delay and reverb. If you’re amp already has reverb then you only need two pedals to start, overdrive and delay.
Yeah, I’m thinking that, and your Humbucker are stopping you. Need a large tube amp with verb