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Comfortably Numb (Live at Pompeii 2016) amp settings — NUX MG-300

The David Gilmour guitar tone for “Comfortably Numb (Live at Pompeii 2016)”, dialed in for a NUX MG-300 with a Ibanez GIO GRG121DX. Live at Pompeii (2016), outro solo

Original rig

1974 Hiwatt DR504 + Alessandro Redbone Special, Black Strat (Seymour Duncan SSL-5 bridge), Sovtek 'Civil War' Big Muff, Hartman/Electric Mistress flanger, dual digital delays

Singing, sustained lead with thick fuzz, shimmering flange, and spacious delay — warm yet cutting with pronounced midrange bloom

Amp settings — NUX MG-300

CHANNELHIWIRE model with V30 412 cabBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Reverb	4
Master	8

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01MUF DIST (Big Muff block)

Primary gain source; smooth violin sustain into clean Hiwatt model

Level 7 · Tone 4 · Sustain 8

02Flanger block

Electric Mistress emulation; adds Gilmour's signature liquid modulation shimmer

Rate 3 · Depth 5

03Delay block

Set delay time to approximately 430ms with warm repeats

Level 5 · Feedback 6 · Time 7

Why these settings

The NUX HIWIRE model provides the loud, clean headroom of Gilmour's Hiwatt DR504, keeping amp gain low so the MUF DIST block generates all the saturation. To compensate for the ceramic IBZ-6 bridge humbucker on your Ibanez versus Gilmour's high-output single-coil SSL-5, roll the guitar tone knob to 8 and pull the MUF DIST Tone knob to 4 to avoid brittle upper harmonics while keeping mids pushed. Master volume on the modeler is set high to simulate power amp fullness into the 4x12 cab.

PRO TIPUse heavy, slow finger vibrato across whole-step bends and pick closer to the neck pickup rather than near the bridge saddles to smooth out the initial transient pick attack.

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