Time amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Time”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 MkII with a Harley Benton SC-Custom II. Studio version, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), main guitar solo section

Original rig

1969 Fender Stratocaster 'Black Strat' -> EHX Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head) -> Colorsound Power Boost -> Binson Echorec -> 100W Hiwatt DR103 Custom Head -> WEM 4x12 cab with Fane Crescendo speakers

Singing, sustained fuzz lead with vocal-like midrange, smooth attack, and rhythmic tape echo decay

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

CHANNELClean amp type (with onboard Muff Fuzz booster)BRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Reverb	4
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Booster (Muff Fuzz / '60s Fuzz)

Engage the Katana onboard Red Booster assigned to Muff Fuzz into the Clean channel to emulate the Hiwatt + Ram's Head stack.

Drive 8 · Tone 5 · Level 7

02Onboard Delay (Tape Echo / Analog Delay)

Emulates the Binson Echorec setting with ~350ms delay and moderate repeats.

Time 6 · Feedback 5 · Level 5

Why these settings

The Katana 50 MkII uses the Clean amp voice to mimic David Gilmour's high-headroom Hiwatt DR103 platform, leaving the distortion work to the onboard Muff Fuzz booster. Because the Harley Benton SC-Custom II has thicker, higher-output humbuckers than Gilmour's single-coil Strat, treble is dialed back to 5 and the guitar's tone knob rolled to 8 to keep the top-end singing without muddying the low-end. Presence is omitted as the Katana 50 MkII panel physically lacks a presence knob.

PRO TIPPick firmly close to the bridge with heavy vibrato at the peak of your wide whole-step and step-and-a-half bends to coax the natural harmonic feedback and sustained vowel-like bloom out of the fuzz circuit.

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