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Coming back to life amp settings — Fender Mustang lt40s

The Pink floyd guitar tone for “Coming back to life”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang lt40s with a Fender Isfe25000896. Studio version, The Division Bell (1994), iconic intro solo and lead tone

Original rig

Fender David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster (neck pickup), Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100, BK Butler Tube Driver, Boss CS-2 compressor, TC2290 digital delay, Boss CE-2 chorus

Warm, singing sustain with smooth compression, neck pickup sweetness, moderate gain with long decay for expressive bends
Amp settings — Fender Mustang lt40s
CHANNELTwin Clean ('65 Twin Reverb model)BRIGHToffBOOSToff
GAIN 3 BASS 6 TREBLE 5 REVERB 4 MASTER 6
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain3
Bass6
Treble5
Reverb4
Master6
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Guitar
PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer

Provides the smooth, endless sustain and compressed attack essential to Gilmour's phrasing

Level 7 · Tone 5 · Attack 4 · Sustain 7

02EHX Big Muff Pi

Kept at moderate sustain to act as a warm, singing lead drive without excessive fuzz rasp

Volume 6 · Tone 4 · Sustain 5

03Digital Delay (Mustang LT40S onboard effect)

RECOMMENDED block — set delay time to roughly 440ms (dotted eighth/quarter mix) with 4-5 repeats

Time 5 · Feedback 5 · Level 4
Why these settings

The Fender Mustang LT40S faceplate features only Bass and Treble controls (no dedicated Mid or Presence knobs). Running the CS-3 into a dialed-back Big Muff into the clean '65 Twin model captures the ultra-clean Hiwatt headroom and singing sustain of the Tube Driver/Big Muff combination. Tone is rolled back slightly on both the Strat and the Big Muff to round off high-end fizz and emulate Gilmour's smooth neck-pickup bloom.

PRO TIPUse gentle, slow-release whole-step bends and apply subtle finger vibrato only at the peak of each bend to let the compressor and sustain bloom naturally like Gilmour.

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