Time amp settings — Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier

The Pink Floyd guitar tone for “Time”, dialed in for a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio recording, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), main guitar solo section

Original rig

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

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

Amp settings — Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier

CHANNELChannel 2 (Vintage mode)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	8
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	0
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Electro-Harmonix Ram's Head Big Muff Pi

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Volume 7 · Tone 5 · Sustain 8

02Analog / Tape Delay

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (FX loop, set to ~350ms)

Time 5 · Repeats 4 · Level 4

Why these settings

The Dual Rectifier naturally scoops mids and has aggressive low end, whereas Gilmour's tone is defined by a mid-forward Big Muff pushing a clean, high-headroom Hiwatt. Vintage mode on Channel 2 softens the Rectifier's modern fizz, and pushing the mid control to 8 restores the critical vocal sustain missing from the amp's natural voicing. Rolling the Telecaster's tone knob down to 8 rounds off the bridge pickup's ice-pick top end to simulate the thicker attack of Gilmour's Strat. Clean rhythmic verse: switch to Channel 1 Clean with mid at 6.

PRO TIPGilmour heavily relies on wide, precise full-step and step-and-a-half bends with index-finger vibrato at the peak of the pitch; strike the strings slightly with the flesh of the thumb alongside the pick edge to produce immediate harmonic bloom.

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