The sound of DSOTM

57Deluxe

In the recent BBC4 docu "Pink Floyd Beginnings 1967-1972" a late photo of  some 1972 studio time shows the pedals that essentialy accounted for the Dark Side Of The Moon sound...

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bbill335

Try and guess the order from that mess! It's a long way from the racks of 200 stomps he takes out these days. 

Winny_Pooh

Not much you could buy off the shelf back then. That was state of the art stuff when Hendrix was using it.

Sassafras

Forget the pedals, all you really needed was the curly cable.

Jonathanthomas83

And the Binson, although, not a pedal.

colourofsound

bbill335 said:

Try and guess the order from that mess! It's a long way from the racks of 200 stomps he takes out these days. 

I was wondering about this the other day - Davey G turned up on Roger Water's Wall Tour one year and did just one solo. Do you reckon he carted his whole setup for just 60 seconds of music?

Teetonetal

colourofsound said:

bbill335 said:

Try and guess the order from that mess! It's a long way from the racks of 200 stomps he takes out these days. 

I was wondering about this the other day - Davey G turned up on Roger Water's Wall Tour one year and did just one solo. Do you reckon he carted his whole setup for just 60 seconds of music?

No, he used Dave Killminster's rig and sounded pretty ropy.

Jonathanthomas83

Teetonetal said:

colourofsound said:

bbill335 said:

Try and guess the order from that mess! It's a long way from the racks of 200 stomps he takes out these days. 

I was wondering about this the other day - Davey G turned up on Roger Water's Wall Tour one year and did just one solo. Do you reckon he carted his whole setup for just 60 seconds of music?

No, he used Dave Killminster's rig and sounded pretty ropy.

I was there, sounded pretty awesome. To be fair, it could have sounded like a fart in a thunderstorm and it still would have been the greatest thing I've ever witnessed in my life.

thecolourbox

But tone is in the fingers right

professorben

thecolourbox said:

But tone is in the fingers right

Of course. 

Thousands of pounds of gear have only made me realise this.