About Face: In the Studio with David Gilmour

About Face was David Gilmour's second solo album apart from Pink Floyd. While featuring the memorable Pink Floyd delay and phase-shifted tones, Gilmour opted for a more overdriven tone on the About Face album. To achieve these overdriven tones, expect to add the following pedals, used by Gilmour during the recording of the About Face album, to your pedalboard set up:

• Roland SCC-700 Pedal Controller - don't let the Roland name fool you when looking for this pedal. Roland pedals are available under the Boss brand now. Gilmour's SCC-700 Pedal Controller contained a full gamut of Boss pedals, namely SD-1 Overdrive, GE-6 Equalizer, GE-7 Equalizer, DD-2 Digital Delay, CS-2 Compressor/Sustainer, and CE-3 Chorus.
  
• two MXR DDL pedals (digital delays), which Gilmour which controlled separately from the presets in the Roland SCC-700 using an A/B switch pedal.
  
• Pete Cornish volume pedal
• Mesa/Boogie Mark II amp controlled using a footswitch on the pedal board for his overdriven tones.