Echoes amp settings — Fender Frontman 20

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Echoes”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 20 with a Behringer Stratocaster. Studio version, Meddle (1971) — main riff and solo sections

Original rig

Late-'60s black Fender Stratocaster (maple neck), Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (BC109 silicon), Binson Echorec 2 delay, Hiwatt DR103 100W head into WEM 4x12 Starfinder cabinet

Singing, sustaining fuzz with vocal-like midrange bite; clean amp platform letting the silicon fuzz do all the harmonic work

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 20

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	0
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 (substituting for Fuzz Face)

DS-1 is harder-edged than a Fuzz Face but can approximate the sustaining, harmonically rich saturation. Roll Tone back to tame the fizz and let the mids sing. Level higher than unity to push the Frontman's preamp slightly.

Tone 4 · Level 7 · Dist 6

Why these settings

The Fender Frontman 20 is a solid-state practice amp with scooped mids and bright voicing — the opposite of Gilmour's warm, linear Hiwatt. Pushing mids to 6 and cutting treble to 5 compensates for the Frontman's natural scoop. Amp gain stays low (3) because the DS-1 is your gain source; stacking two distortion stages would destroy the note clarity Gilmour is known for. The DS-1's clipping is harsher than a Fuzz Face, so backing off the guitar's tone knob to 6 and volume to 8 softens the attack and adds the slightly compressed, vocal quality of the original.

PRO TIPGilmour picks lightly near the neck pickup for the verses and digs in hard over the bridge pickup for the aggressive riff unison — your picking dynamics are the real 'effect' here. Let notes bloom by sustaining them rather than rapid picking.

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