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Comfortably numb amp settings — Behringer V-tone gm108

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Comfortably numb”, dialed in for a Behringer V-tone gm108 with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, The Wall (1979) — Outro Solo

Original rig

1969 Fender Stratocaster (DiMarzio FS-1 bridge pickup) -> MXR Dyna Comp -> 1974 EHX 'Ram's Head' Big Muff Pi -> 100W Hiwatt DR103 linked input -> WEM 4x12 cab with Fane Crescendo speakers blended with Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker cabinet and MXR digital delay

Smooth, singing violin-like fuzz lead with rich sustain, rotary/chorus modulation, and ambient delay

Amp settings — Behringer V-tone gm108

CHANNELClean / Tweed (Amp: Tweed, Mode: Clean, Speaker: Flat/UK)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Behringer Ultra Metal UM300

Gain source — set Mid Freq around 1kHz and boost Mids to replicate the Ram's Head Big Muff singing violin sustain without harsh solid-state fizz

Dist 6 · High 4 · Low 6 · Mid 7 · Mid Freq 5 · Level 7

02Analog Delay / Digital Delay (e.g. Boss DD-3 or Behringer VD400)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (set delay time to ~480ms with 3-4 audible repeats for the iconic ambient space)

Time 5 · Repeat/Feedback 4 · Level 4

03Chorus / Rotary Speaker (e.g. Boss CE-2W)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (approximates the Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker swirl)

Rate 4 · Depth 6

Why these settings

The GM108 is placed on the Tweed Clean voice to emulate the high-headroom Hiwatt DR103 clean platform, dropping amp gain to 2 to prevent double-gain harshness. The Behringer UM300 acts as your gain engine: by pulling down the High control, bumping Lows, and pushing the parametric Mid around the center frequencies, it rounds off metal rasp into Gilmour's thick, violin-like Ram's Head fuzz sustain. Rolling the Squier bridge pickup's tone knob down to 8 further tames ceramic single-coil spikiness.

PRO TIPUse heavy, slow finger vibrato at the peak of full-step bends, and pick lightly near the neck pickup using the meat of your thumb alongside the plectrum to soften the initial transient attack.

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