High hopes amp settings — Fender Mustang lt40s

The Pink floyd guitar tone for “High hopes”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang lt40s with a Fender Isfe25000896. Studio version, The Division Bell (1994) — iconic slide guitar solo

Original rig

Fender Deluxe / Jedson Lap Steel (EMG-H pickup) into Sovtek 'Civil War' Big Muff, Chandler Tube Driver, Boss GE-7, TC 2290 Delay, Hiwatt DR103 Custom 100W Head

Singing, high-sustain, violin-like liquid fuzz-lead with strong mid-focus and spacious digital delay

Amp settings — Fender Mustang lt40s

CHANNELTwin Clean amp modelBRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer

Placed first to maximize sustain into the fuzz

Level 7 · Tone 5 · Attack 4 · Sustain 7

02EHX Big Muff Pi

Primary gain source; roll tone back slightly to tame high-end harshness

Volume 7 · Tone 4 · Sustain 7

03Onboard Digital Delay (Mustang LT40S)

Set to roughly 480ms (quarter note/dotted eighth feel) with 4-5 repeats

Level 5 · Time 6 · Feedback 5

Why these settings

The Mustang LT40S is set to the Twin Clean voice with amp gain at 2 to act as a high-headroom Hiwatt platform for your physical Big Muff and CS-3. The Mustang LT40S faceplate lacks physical Mid and Presence controls, so those values are nulled while the Big Muff tone knob is dialed back to roll off excess fizz from single-coil pickups. Your CS-3 feeds continuous sustain into the Big Muff just as Gilmour stacked compression and overdrive with his Civil War Muff.

PRO TIPUse a heavy glass or brass slide on the bridge pickup with the tone knob rolled down to 8, plucking strings with the flesh of your fingers or thumb rather than a pick to eliminate harsh slide transient clicks and achieve Gilmour's violin-like swell.

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