David Gilmour's 1985 Gibson J-200 Celebrity has been put up for sale

By editorial board on June 20, 2022

David Gilmour's pickup for his acoustic Gibson and how to improve your Stratocaster sound -

The guitar – which was used by the Pink Floyd legend onstage at the band's 2005 Live 8 reunion set, among other high-profile shows – is currently listed at $325,500 is now for sale on Reverb.com

Originally owned by Dire Straits' John Illsley, the guitar was sold to Gilmour in 1994, ahead of Pink Floyd's Division Bell tour, then subsequently auctioned off in 2019 as part of the record-shattering auction of much of Gilmour's guitar collection for charity.

Gilmour used the luxurious acoustic extensively onstage and in the studio, most prominently using it during a performance of Wish You Were Here at Pink Floyd's reunion set at the 2005 Live 8 show.

L.R. BAGGS M1 is the pickup used by David Gilmour to amplify his 1959 Gibson Western acoustic guitar

The extraordinary nature of this fantastic pickup is confirmed by the fact that among its admirers we find, in addition to Gilmour, many other musicians, including Noel Gallagher.

It is a magnetic soundhole pickup for acoustic guitar, to be affixed when you want to amplify the instrument.

The idea behind this pickup is to use a system that can also reproduce the resonant frequencies of the guitar cabinet, in order to ensure a more real and natural sound.

To do this at L.R. BAGGS have patented a new type of humbucker pickup, with the second moving winding. (Ondamusicale)

An exact replica of the pick-up set used on David Gilmour's Red Strat. for sale in stores.  Get your guitar playing and sounding better than ever with samples moves by Musicradar.com

1. Get more tone for your bridge pickup

The Stratocaster bridge pickup is an immensely versatile beast, but one that’s caged thanks to the lack of a tone control in Leo Fender’s original configuration. Thankfully, changing this is a very simple fix that guitarists have been doing for decades. First, locate the wire connecting the Strat’s second tone pot to the pickup selector switch (it’ll be connected to the middle pickup at this point). Unsolder this, and move it one tag towards the middle of the switch and solder it back up. Done!

2. Give the single-bucker sound a go

Got single-coil pickups but want to imitate fat ’bucker tone? First, add tons of overdrive to your sound via a decent mid-rich pedal - two pedals, preferably. Don’t be tempted to turn the treble down on your amp or pedals: around six to eight, no lower. Keep the guitar’s volume up full, but knock the bridge pickup tone control down to about half or lower. Sounds much more like a humbucker, right? Vintage-style Strats don’t have a tone pot wire to the bridge pickup, so you’ll need to mod this.

3. Block your tremolo

While many love it, some Strat players don’t use the tremolo that invariably comes fitted with the guitar. While the design is great and they can be set up to play with good tuning stability, often this can be overlooked and the tuning becomes a problem. So if you don’t use it - try blocking it off.

A hardwood wedge is your best bet (take a look at our full in-depth tutorial) and alongside the tuning advantages, it can also help with sustain if you fit it right. You can also remove it easily enough if you change your mind.

4. Stop noise

While the Strat oozes character from that classic trio of single coils, they are also susceptible to noise from external interference, and if you’re planning on upping your gain, this will only be magnified.

You can combat this by shielding the cavities on your guitar with copper tape: available from Allparts.uk.com for £6, and more than enough to shield a whole Strat. Remove your strings and scratchplate, then line the cavities and underside of the scratchplate with the self-adhesive tape.

Overlap the tape as you go so that all of the pieces are making contact with each other, and don’t forget to do the cavity walls too - this is important as the tape on your scratchplate will make contact with the cavities too. Finally, you need to earth the conductive tape.

Not everyone is aware that there is an exact replica of the pick-up set used on David Gilmour's Red Strat for sale, in fact for many years EMG has been producing this set completely pre-wired and ready to install on the Fender Stratocaster under the name “DG -20 ″, with the same pickups used on the Red Strat

The set also includes an 11-screw mother-of-pearl pickguard, although David uses an all-white one. But let's move on to the configuration of the set, where we find three white SA (Alnico) pick-ups and a rather complex electronics in which there are an EXG (Guitar Expander) and a SPC (Presence Control), obviously the tone and tone controls are present. volume.

The EXG system increases the bass and treble response, reducing the mids, while the SPC gives the SA pickups greater presence (increasing the mids) making them ringing. One of the strong points for those who choose to use this set is the total lack of background noise thanks to a total shielding and particular wiring. They are very suitable (needless to say ...) to recreate sounds like "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason", "The Division Bell" and related tours

Recently Martin has revealed D-35 David Gilmour Custom Signature Edition six-string and 12-string acoustic guitars. Two limited edition runs of just 250 guitars each and inspired by the two key acoustic models from Gilmour's career with Pink Floyd.(Musicradar)

Both originals played a starring role on Pink Floyd's classic Wish You Were Here album and sold in Gilmour's $21.5million charity auction (a new world record for a Martin guitar) at Christie's in 2019. The 1969 D-35 sold for $1,095,000 1971 Martin D-12-28 sold for $531,000.

 

Gilmour's original 1969 D-35 was his main recording and songwriting acoustic for over 40 years and h'll be using this signature model going forwards.GALLERY: The David Gilmour Guitar Collection | Premier Guitar

The D-35 David Gilmour 12 String again uses sinker mahogany for its neck, back and sides with a Carpathian spruce top.

These signature models are the first D-35s that will be made with sinker mahogany, chosen by Gilmour for its "warm, rich tones and exquisitely beautiful grain".

Recently David Gilmour talked with BBC about the very beginning of his six-string journey, singling out late folk icon Pete Seeger‘s guitar tutoring record as the crucial source of information.

His guitar journey – He explained: “My only actual guitar instruction was with Pete Seeger’s guitar tutor record. It was an LP with a big book, it had all the chords that you might need.

Martin(Image credit: Martin)

 

“It started out with a pitch pipe playing six notes of a guitar, so the most important thing was to learn how to tune it. (Source: ultimate-guitar.com)

“The second band was teaching you how to play a D chord, which is three fingers on a guitar which you then strum, and then he sang some words so you could do a song, instantly, with just one chord.

“So from the beginning of learning the guitar I was learning singing as well. And singing is just as important to.

 

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