Time amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Time”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Gibson Les Paul Studio. Studio recording, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), main guitar solo section

Original rig

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

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

Amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	9
Bass	6
Mid	8
Treble	5
Reverb	4
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Ram's Head)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Volume 7 · Tone 5 · Sustain 8

02Analog / Tape Delay

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (set to ~350ms multi-tap/dotted eighth)

Time 5 · Repeat 5 · Mix 4

Why these settings

Without Gilmour's Ram's Head Big Muff, the Blues Junior IV must generate all the saturation: engage the onboard 'FAT' boost and push preamp gain to 9 for maximum sustain. The Les Paul's humbuckers provide extra thickness compared to a Stratocaster, so mids are pushed to 8 and treble is tempered to 5 to emulate the smooth, vocal Hiwatt character without harshness. Adding an external vintage-spec fuzz pedal later lets you run the Blues Jr clean (gain around 3) to nail the true studio tone.

PRO TIPRoll the Les Paul bridge pickup's tone knob down to 8 to round off the initial transient attack, and pick with the fleshy edge of your thumb/pick hybrid to replicate Gilmour's blooming, violin-like sustain on whole-step bends.

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