Comfortably numb amp settings — Roland Microsoft Cube GX

The David Gilmour guitar tone for “Comfortably numb”, dialed in for a Roland Microsoft Cube GX with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, The Wall (1979) — Outro solo

The Roland Micro Cube GX lacks a standalone fuzz circuit, so the 'Classic Stack' amp voice is pushed to gain 7 to deliver the saturated sustain and compressed sustain tail Gilmour got from his Ram's Head Big Muff into a Hiwatt DR103. Rolling the guitar tone knob back to 8 shaves the top-end fizz of the Strat single coil on a small 5-inch speaker. Onboard EFX should be set to Chorus at around 9 o'clock to replicate the subtle movement of the Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker cabinet, with Delay/Reverb dialed to warm Spring Reverb. First solo variation: switch guitar pickup position to neck+middle and roll gain down to 5.

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