DG-20 Legacy in our live setup on Fractal Axe-Fx III
How a Sound Library Becomes Part of the Show
With DG-20 Legacy, the starting point is not to chase a generic “Gilmour sound,” but to find the right character for each moment of the song.
The 15 presets take us from the wide, spacious clean tones of Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Us and Them to the rhythmic textures of Run Like Hell, and on to the sustain-driven lead sounds of Time, Sorrow, and Comfortably Numb.
From Sound to Song
Each preset takes you directly to a specific point in the setlist: Shine, Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage, Comfortably Numb, Coming Back to Life, Keep Talking, Learning to Fly, Money, Run Like Hell, Sorrow, Time and Us and Them.
In the more atmospheric songs, we focus mainly on delay and space, allowing the vocals and keyboards to breathe. In the lead parts of Time and Comfortably Numb, on the other hand, sustain, dynamics, and presence in the mix become essential.
Run Like Hell is our reference for precision and delay; Money for attack, gain, and modulation; Shine On and Us and Them for depth and ambience.
On stage, it's all about the FLOW
On Axe-Fx III, these presets integrate directly into the live rack. We adapt them to the routing, levels, and control system of our rig, with the main goal of maintaining continuity between the more open clean tones and the more intense lead sounds.
The final adjustments always happen with the full band: a delay, boost or modulation that sounds perfect on its own can feel completely different once the whole arrangement comes in.
That is when a preset stops being just a sound and becomes part of the emotion of the song.