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Comfortably Numb amp settings — Roland Cube 40GX

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Comfortably Numb”, dialed in for a Roland Cube 40GX with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, The Wall (1979) — second solo tone (the iconic outro lead)

Original rig

1969 Fender Stratocaster 'Black Strat' with DiMarzio FS-1 bridge pickup → MXR Dyna Comp → Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head) → Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100 (linked channels) into WEM 4x12 with Fane Crescendo speakers, plus Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker in parallel. Binson Echorec for delay.

Creamy, singing sustain with thick harmonic fuzz, smooth compressed attack, warm midrange bloom, and lush modulated delay

Amp settings — Roland Cube 40GX

CHANNELLEAD (or JC CLEAN for pedal platform — see adaptation_note)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Cube 40GX lacks a Big Muff, which is essential to Gilmour's stacked-gain sustain. The LEAD channel's built-in saturation approximates fuzz-into-amp compression — gain at 6 avoids fizz while maintaining sustain. Mid pushed to 6 compensates for the Cube's slightly scooped COSM voicing vs the Hiwatt's midrange bark. Tone knob at 8 softens the Strat's ice-pick highs like Gilmour's rolled-back settings. Use the Cube's onboard DELAY set to ~440ms with 25-30% feedback for the iconic slapback bloom.

PRO TIPEnable the Cube's built-in DELAY and CHORUS simultaneously — set chorus depth low (2-3) and rate slow to mimic the Yamaha rotating speaker's subtle warble that thickens Gilmour's tone without obvious wobble. Pick lightly near the neck pickup for that vocal, violin-like sustain.

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