Shine on you crazy diamond amp settings — Fender Champion 40
The Pink floyd guitar tone for “Shine on you crazy diamond”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio album version, Wish You Were Here (1975) — Syd's Theme / Intro Lead
Fender 'Black Strat' Stratocaster (neck/middle) -> Colorsound Power Boost / MXR Dyna Comp -> Binson Echorec -> Hiwatt DR103 / Fender Dual Showman
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 4 |
01Klone Centaur
Clean boost / edge-of-breakup into clean channel
03Boss DD-8 Digital Delay
Set mode to Warm or Tape, approx 370ms
The Fender Champion 40 clean channel provides the massive, pristine headroom of Gilmour's Hiwatt/Dual Showman platforms (and lacks a physical mid or presence knob, which are left null). Using the Klone Centaur as a low-gain boost replicates the transparent push of the original Colorsound Power Boost. Because the Ibanez GIO features humbuckers with higher output and darker low-mids than Gilmour's single-coil Strat, rolling the guitar tone to 8 and keeping the Klone gain modest preserves the bell-like chime without muddy saturation.
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