I Found David Gilmour's Legendary Guitar Tone (and it changed everything) 

You should definitely try Meddle, Dark Side and or Wish You Were Here, such beautiful Psych and Prog music, I feel like every guitarist needs a Dave Gilmour phase, it’s only fair

I am the biggest glimour fan. I played drums most my life until I lost kit and house in Katrina. By time I got back on feet my son took up guitar and I fed him my spare cash and daughter. When he grad and moved out I missed the tones and talent coming out of his room all those years while I tinkered with keys. I bought a strat and never looked back. Thanks to him and Gilmour. I have my own sound I think. But I'm told the obvious Gilmour influence is there. I'm a work in progress but I don't really do covers.

I think you uploaded the wrong video, I didn't hear any Gilmour tones.

you most definitely have not found Dave Gilmour's legendary tone, not even close... Gilmour didn't regularly DI into the mixing desk, but he did do it on the guitar solo on Another Brick In The Wall part 2 which is a lot cleaner sounding than what you've got - there's also the possibility that there may have been some EQ used as well, the exact details aren't known

Welcome to the world of rock that some of us grew up on. Music is so different now days. Makes me want to travel back in time

Gilmour, Eric Johnson and Andy Timmons, plus Nick Johnston have all really influenced my tone and sense of melody. Growing up on metal, these guys gave me a desire to slow down and “feel” which notes fit into the chord structure and feeling of the song.

A vast number of the reggae tunes that you know and love, were recorded with the guitars sent directly into the console. This is a normal means of recording clean guitar tone, and it’s been done for many decades. So you know.

Gilmore has a tone and touch that’s almost alien

Man I feel you on the search for your own thing. I’ve been plying for a long time and I’ve gotten good at mimicking Mayer or mimicking Duane and even Dave Gilmour…but the search for my own thing has been very elusive. I will agree that lately I’ve been very into the DI thing which is new for me. Great vid! Cheers!

I'm an Analog Man stuck in a digital world...

As an intermediate (at best) player, I've made a serious effort to ungeek myself when comes to equipment. IMO, a player's "sound" comes from the heart. Still, I think your videos are worth a subscription.

You sir are missing out. Go listen to some Pink Floyd.

Mike....your intros are TOP NOTCH! Such a gift. LOL.

There is a lot of DI guitar on _The Wall_ and later albums, but not on the earlier albums. The basics of Gilmore's '75-'78 rig: '60s strat -> Δ big muff -> colorsound powerbooster -> HiWatt 200

Gilmore = Stratocaster

you need to try a HIWATT "little rig" with a hiwatt enclosure loaded with Fane speakers

Mike!!! My Man!! You sound dope, Bro! Honestly, in this day and age of modelling, AI and other things I know nothing about...do you really need an amp? Let alone a tube amp. There are plenty of big names that don't use amps. At ALL! Love that funk at the beginning, Man. The D'Angelico is sweeeetttt! This is all from an old man! Ha Ha! Happy tone chasing.

so the catalyst here is the admittance to Pink Floyd ignorance....weird....its starts with the complete and utter belief that this man MIKE COLE is brilliantly sane and in love with guitars and music, like me! ha! then on the information by mike that he has never heard a Pink Floyd song through and through sparks them chemical change in my brain to sufficiently convince me MIKE COLE is actually insane!

Just stumbled onto your channel Mike - wow, this video it was educational AND fun. Subscribed! Thanks for this - enjoyed it AND learned about Gilmour. How cool!

your channel is awesome, chill vibes dude, you're cool good guitar talks

catalyst, texture, rebuttal, and others are some of my favorites for years...like discombobulated...yep

Mike awesome job on this and other videos. Nice to have an articulate sense of humor with tasty guitar advice.

John Lennon famously plugged his guitar straight into the board and clipped the board preamps in recording the song Revolution. George Martin hated it, but the song was a big hit.

Mike you've finally become a proper channel. Carry on.

That muted jazz guitar sound with the reverb and delay is my new sound for clean playing - on my Pod Go. . .anyway, I think you're located in Maryland. . . I'm in Rockville, Maryland. . . I play bass, as well!!!!! Yeah, Pink Floyd is the bomb!!!! Looks like a cool audio interface w/ the floyd sound, real nice. . . .peace!!!

Kinda shocked this channel isn't at 500,000 subscribers yet. It will.

Love to see a vid on Syd Barretts tone

If this video was spoken in a different language, I would still watch the whole thing… it’s beautiful

Great program!! Love the material!!😊

Listen to Animals from beginning to end and then listen to it again while you read the cliff notes for Animal Farm 😮

I know this is late, but I would love to see your reactions to Floyd/radiohead songs now that you’ve discovered their awesomeness. Even if it was a second channel.

What Gilmour songs are you talking about? I know he recorded the solo for Education straight into the console (with a Les Paul, actually) but I not aware of him doing that on any other songs.

David Gilmour, EVH, John Frucciante, and Santana are the reason why I play guitar.

Love Floyd, one of my favorite bands, Animals is my favorite album by them.

Check out Fat Old Sun live at Pompeii. Fantastic guitar solo and tone.

My earlier comment forgot to mention: Definitely Dark Side and Wish You Were Here!

Love the info! Would have really liked you to hear you play a bit of Pink Floyd.

Okay, so Mike Learns About Gear is a good name, but even better, would be Gear School.

Origin Effects Cali76 Stacked it like two 1176 Compressors in one pedal.

Where's Gilmour?

youre THIS close to getting an amp/cab sim and a pa system. Then you can mold and recreate your tone out of any speaker system running through an eq pedal. I did it and ZERO regrets. and holy shit dude. Wish you were Here. wow lol

Once again thanks for the knowledge and the riffs

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If you want to find your own sound, you definitely need to listen to music that’s not mainstream.

Dave Gilmour is the greatest guitarist to ever live and I can't believe you haven't studied his guitar playing!

Hi Mike love your videos and your style a lot! I have a doubt i'm trying to solve rn and if you or other people could help me it would be amazing: should i invest in a digital pedalboard (like the nux mg30) to start getting into the effects world (cause i'm seeing that is what inspires me to play)? I love the analogic feel, but i don't have any kind of gear (i got only a 10w amp and the guitar, no pedals) that means i would have to spend a lot of money. I only play for myself in my room so live situations are totally out of consideration. Thanks for everyone who will answer!

i like those weirdo light bulbs too lol

Thanks!

Check out "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", it will change your life and guitar understanding!

Most listen to Pink Floyd, which to me was 1 continuous song wrapped into an album. I like PF's earlier stuff better, Money, Time, the earlier PF albums rather the The Wall. Pink Floyd sound without an EHX Ram's Head Muff Pi Fuzz pedal, who would've thought that was even possible ?

you almost got a thumbs down by stating 2:14, but I love your videos to much to do so. AND, I only started to get in to Pink Floyd back in Fall of 2021. I had heard the "hits" on the radio growing up but never really paid attention. When I did start paying attention, oh my! I even did The Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon in 2001.

Dude. You don't need a Neve to DI. You don't need a console. You don't even need a pedal. Of course, the pro recording guys will tell you you do, because they are invested and need the legends to prevail. I use studios for the STAFF and environment, not the gear.

I'm not going to lie I almost left the video when he said he never listen to a full Pink Floyd song.

Cool Mike. The only thing you might try doing is injecting a bit of humor into your presentation. You can be a bit dry at times !!!! (just kidding!!) Oh, and hopefully you bought LED light bulbs, that way you won't run out of these great ideas, since they last longer and use less energy.

Drop John Mayer and go pick up Meddle, Darkside, Wishyou and Animals. Gilmour is truly essential. In a class all his own. He won't outshred anyone but he will slay EVERY. TIME. Not just talking his leads, either. Floyd really made some beautiful music on that run. Wall and Finalcut if you must (I like them, but prime years are Meddle to Animals.

All of Motown was DI recorted.

Animals is the BEaST!

I’m willing to bet that it changed absolutely nothing.

Break out your strat for Gilmore

Still waiting for Pink Floyd sound. 🤔

I love your videos. But please go listen to some Pink Floyd.

Do you think musicians "journeys " could just be a series of pockets? Listening and learning an individuals style/genre? Then moving on Rinse and repeat etc? Warranted or not? My advice would be? Don't apologise for not discovering someone until you did It really is a journey , even if that term has been hijacked by wet wipes on reality TV

Mike, I like a lot of your videos, but there is nothing about or anything like David Gilmour’s tone here.

You've never listened to Pink Floyd? WTF?

Stopped after you said you have listened to a whole Floyd song.

clickbait. scrolled the whole video. no Gilmour tone anywhere in earshot. KK

Bro get to the point. I got bored so I don't know if you got a good tone or not.

Michael Rother (Kratfwerk, Neu!) recorded direct to console. Recommended: "Flammende Herzen". Nothing against Gilmour, but Rother is way better. :-)

I’m not gonna like the video till you go listen to Shine on you crazy diamond and dogs.

Get into Pink Floyd!! Listen to Dark Side of the Moon beginning to end.

Doesn't sound a thing like Gilmour - still sounds cool! Now go listen to some Floyd!!

I think maybe you should listen to a Pink Floyd song.

Nevermind DG, i want the tone you got flicking that light bulb!

talks about going di - proceeds with a 1200€ interface and a 300€ compressor pedal:D but in all seriousness, really interesting analogy, Mike!

Mike, I like your style! I'm 68, I've only been playing for 4 years, and I love watching younger player's growing their knowledge base. I'm also searching for my sounds, and just beginning to dip a toe into the electronic sound whirlpool of destiny... yeah, that probably sounded better in my head, too. Have an excellent day!😅

Nice to see you finally got to hear some Floyd!!! But research and passion for finding the sound is impressive!!! I've been back and forth with really honing the craft as I should but you added some fuel to my fire and for that I say thanks!!! 😊

I love Mike Cole!! But, this guy definitely never listened Pink Floyd or David Gilmour. I couldn't find anything similar to the tone that Guilmour used on any album. Honestly, I couldn't understand the purpose of this video.

Hey there Mike, I hope all is well.. I have been watching your videos for quite awhile now and I love your approach and style., If you are giving David Gilmour’s guitar a listen you should check out his solo material as well.. His debut solo album is so good.. His guitar playing and song writing is spit on.. I knew him from Pink Floyd but I discovered his talent through his solo material.. He has a new album due out in September.. His daughter sings with him on the album as well and his wife has helped him lyrically over the years as well.. Like I said I have recently re-discovered how talented David Gilmour is as a song writer as well as a guitar player I highly reccpmend you checking his solo material out, give it a chance.. I have been listening to his latest album ‘ Rattle That Lock’ for about two weeks now in my car.. Take care Craig

The More album and Ummagumma, although not mainstream, are a great listen for inspiration.

Animals is the best Floyd album

I like using DI + compressor + a bit of EQ + tape saturation + another compressor + reverb. Very nice sound. Oh, BTW, The Doors also used DI unprocessed guitar for some songs.

Kudos man - these tones are beautiful! HOWEVER, I'm going to challenge this a little. Problem with talking about Gilmour (or any of the greats) is they've had so many phases (pre-Saucerful, Saucerful to Meddle, Dark Side through Animals, The Wall through Division Bell, his solo stuff). It's totally possible that at some point along the way he's stacked 1176s but I think it's unlikely. He's best known for using the MXR Dynacomp and has also used the Boss CS2 and Demeter Compulators. Certainly during the Dark Side era, he was using MXRs on his pedal board and Dark Side specifically was engineered by Alan Parsons who famously avoids compression like the plague. So while 1176s have doubtless been used on something Gilmour's recorded somewhere, I'm betting these weren't a key part of his most classic tones.

Man, I am worried about you: You have never listened to a full Pink Floyd track? WTF. :) Also, I am now going to nick-name you 'Flying Fingers Mike' ... keep them digits down man :)

Dude start making some reactions to Pink Floyd songs! They’d get VIEWS

Dont think this video has anything in it to do with Gilmour whatsoever

Please stop the "I'm so clever" nonsense and just talk. The information is good. No serious success on RU-vid is jokey and self-serving like this...

If you keep playing and practicing, your own sound/tone will come naturally

So you spent all your money buying lightbulbs, but what you should be doing is sitting in the dark with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cranked.

What light bulbs do you use?

Pink Floyd are lullabies for stoners.

As a guitarist who works at Jimmy Johns, let me tell you the bbq chips don’t help with tone nearly as much as the salt and vinegar.

Ewww! 60’s garage sound! Kool!

Mike. Please stop what you are doing and go listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.

8:55....we know Mike, we know.

I have a name

@mikecole4489 I think I can give you some tips about getting your OWN sound because, although I'm not a celebrity at all, and, BTW, having achieved some local fame in a district the size/population of Delaware, ('twas long ago) I don't really liked it, but, in terms of sound, mine is as characteristic as all the "big names" you can think about... Doing funk or even arpeggios top clean tones DI in the console is an old trick because you rarely get a really clean sound from a tube amp... And even a MXR or Boss compressor will do the trick... You're misleading yourself about Gilmour recording DI with distortion. It was rarely the case, you can have everything you want to know on the Gilmourish and the KittRae websites... The case you think about is Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2's solo... He didn't wen't thru a compressor but thru a limiter, and very likely a Fairchild 360, although what was really used wasn't documented. It wen thru the console, likely a Neve, then into the Studer A827 reel tape 24 tracks recorder... From there, you run the tape thru the console into... A Mesa/Boogie Mark I 1978 60W head. IDK which cab he used, the amp may have been recorded with a Neumann as David is very U87, the back to the console then into the A827... And sorry to say, you didn't found David Gilmour's legendary guitar tone which, BTW, you can get all the sound as presets for NI Guitar Rig or IK Amplitube. I'll prepare a 2nd post about gear after this one... You may not like what will follow but everything is true and it will enter some messy sides of guitar players lives so... you've been warned... Now, let me start with the bad news! They ALL already have their freaking sound in their fingers, and no gear can bring it to you, sorry! Put a Santana, Gilmour, Hendrix, EVH, you name it, on any type of electric guitar with any type of amp and no matter the PA or the recording studio, etc, as long as the gear is correct, you'll recognize 'em immediately! For the record, in the 80's, Ted Nugent (yes, I know and I agree with you) wanted to change his sound. He went to visit EVH to try his gear and guess what happened? He sounded like... Ted Nugent! I already had my sound as soon I started the guitar... The gear was crappy so the results weren't great, but it was already there. My 1st guitar teacher started to give guitar lessons to a toddler, maybe 5y old with a 4 strings baby guitar... Oh gosh, he didn't knew how to play for sure, but every note made all your body hairs go straight... The only time I evere heard someone else with an acoustic guitar sound that hypnotic was at the Cannes Guitar Festival where you could take intensive guitar courses with a masterclass every afternoon, concerts in the evening and jam sessions until late in the night. This bloke went through several Guitar Craft courses, some with Fripp, some without en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Craft And these courses are a bit... odd as it's not about guitar technique, not about applied musical theory to improvisation but all about developing... emotion, sensibility... Anyone can have his own sound on the guitar, it's somewhere in you and it's to you to go and get it ! Things like the Guitar Craft (now Guitar Circles) can help you dev it... You may find it on your own, any you better forget about X or Y or Z sounding like this or that, the one you have to find is yourself, the notes you play are not just having your finger at the right fret and plucking the right string... And sensibility is a double edged sword. If you engage in this path, you will need to have means to protect this zone of your "self" or be sure that any a-hole will hammer you where you're the most fragile... Never let your g/f access this zone, never ever or soon up or later, you'll end under a road-roller... I know perfectly from where my sound comes thus, I'm not willing to discuss it in public on any social media, then, frankly, I'd have preferred doing without, let's say it's the bluesman's way ? I have no idea how a toddler could have such a wonderful sound in the fingers and if he kept it when he grew... Now, there's also an EZ method but I'll enjoin you to find the Mahavishnu John MacLaughlin's quote where he says you cannot not find your sound on the guitar if you do a precise thing... Since doing it, or praising it is on the illegal side here, I won't point what it is... AFAIK, Gilmour did it just once and it was OK. Syd Barrett pursued experiments in psychedelia and went schizo. I know two who went semi-schizo and one that was stranded in a 8 years astral travel on 1st try when he celebrated his hi-school graduation, then he came back and obtained his doctorate in astrophysics into 2 years (OK, he was already seen as having university skills in sciences when he was 9th grader. A real genius). S, the bluesman's method is the most destructive uch accidents are rare, such recoveries even rarer... The method works and works fast but there are risks of backfiring, I didn't engaged in this and I'd advise anyone willing to to get very very well informed, preferably from old hippies as well as science researches... From my POV, if you can manage to connect your emotions to what you play on your own, or if you need help, maybe go to Guitar Circles courses, even if you perceive the music that is done in the Circles as really weird, go for the "natural" option... IMHO, the bluesman's method is the worst of all... Just look at the life of all really great bluesmen, and the greatest ones are not the mos famous ones... BTW, same thing for Flamenco artists anyone who spent a few days with Paco DeLucia knows how his life sucked...

Great content bro. So how do you use your Headrush Prime. ?

Hey guys. At six minutes into the vid when he cranks the distortion, what song or riff is that and what band please? Ps, good playing Mikey!

i looked up the Neve expecting that it would be rather on the expensive side for me, and i can confirm that my lightbulb fund doesn't stretch that far.

3:41 Then you should have bought the UA Volt with a built-in 1176 😁. Yes, grabbing a tone takes work.