Editing Roger Waters (section)

==Artistry==
[[File:Roger Waters en el Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona (The Wall Live) - 04 (crop).jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Roger Waters playing bass and singing|Waters in Barcelona during The Wall Live, 5 April 2011]]
Waters's primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar. However, he said in 1992 that he was "never a bass player" and was "not interested in playing instruments and I never have been".<ref name="Resnicoff-1992">{{Cite journal |last=Resnicoff |first=Matt |date=November 1992 |title=Roger and Me – The Other Side of the Pink Floyd Story |journal=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]}}</ref> Gilmour said that Waters used a limited, simple style and had not been interested in improving, and that Gilmour had played many of the bass parts on Pink Floyd records.<ref name="Resnicoff-1992" /> According to Mason in 2018, Waters feels that "everything should be judged on the writing rather than the playing".<ref name="Greene-2018" />

Waters briefly played a [[Höfner]] bass, but replaced it with a [[Rickenbacker 4001|Rickenbacker RM-1999/4001S]]. In 1970, it was stolen along with the rest of Pink Floyd's equipment in New Orleans.{{sfn|Povey|2008|p=14}} He began using [[Fender Precision Bass]]es in 1968, originally alongside the Rickenbacker 4001, and then exclusively after the Rickenbacker was lost in 1970. First seen at a concert in Hyde Park, London, in July 1970, the black P-Bass was rarely used until April 1972, when it became his main stage guitar. On 2 October 2010, it became the basis for a Fender Artist Signature model.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.fender.com/series/artist/roger-waters-precision-bass/ |title= Roger Waters Precision Bass |publisher= [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation]] |access-date= 9 October 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130112075529/http://www.fender.com/series/artist/roger-waters-precision-bass/ |archive-date= 12 January 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> Waters endorses [[Rotosound]] Jazz Bass 77 flat-wound strings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rotosound.com/endorsees.php|title=Rotosound Endorsees|publisher=Rotosound|access-date=23 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205210630/http://www.rotosound.com/endorsees.php|archive-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> He has used [[The Selmer Company|Selmer]], [[Watkins Electric Music|WEM]], [[Hiwatt]], and [[Ashdown Engineering|Ashdown]] amplifiers but used [[Ampeg]] for later tours. He has employed [[delay (audio effect)|delay]], [[tremolo]], [[chorus effect|chorus]], [[stereo panning]] and [[Phaser (effect)|phaser]] effects in his bass playing.{{sfn|Fitch|2005|pp=416–430, 441–445}}

Waters experimented with the [[EMS Synthi A]] and [[EMS VCS 3|VCS 3]] synthesisers on Pink Floyd pieces such as "[[On the Run (instrumental)|On the Run]]",{{sfn|Mason|2005|p= 169}} "[[Welcome to the Machine]]",{{sfn|Fitch|2005|p= 324}} and "[[In the Flesh?]]"{{sfn|Fitch|Mahon|2006|p=71}} He played electric and acoustic guitar on Pink Floyd tracks using Fender, Martin, [[Ovation Guitar Company|Ovation]] and Washburn guitars.{{sfn|Fitch|2005|pp=416–430, 441–445}} He played electric guitar on the Pink Floyd song "[[Sheep (Pink Floyd song)|Sheep]]", from ''Animals'',{{sfn|Fitch|2005|p=285}} and acoustic guitar on several Pink Floyd recordings, such as [[Pigs on the Wing|"Pigs on the Wing 1&nbsp;&&nbsp;2"]], also from ''Animals'',{{sfn|Fitch|2005|pp=241–242}} "[[Southampton Dock]]" from ''The Final Cut'',{{sfn|Fitch|2005|p=295}} and on "[[Mother (Pink Floyd song)|Mother]]" from ''The Wall''.{{sfn|Fitch|2005|p=213}} A Binson Echorec 2 [[delay effect]] was used on his bass lead track "[[One of These Days (instrumental)|One of These Days]]".{{sfn|Mabbett|2010|p=105}} Waters plays trumpet during concert performances of "[[Outside the Wall (song)|Outside the Wall]]".{{sfn|Fitch|2005|p=232}}

The Pink Floyd biographer Mike Cormack wrote that Waters is "surely the greatest lyricist in all of rock music",{{sfn|Cormack|2024|p=61}} citing the use of [[trochaic tetrameter]] in the refrain of "[[Time (Pink Floyd song)|Time]]"{{sfn|Cormack|2024|p=115}} and the "exquisite phrasing" of "[[Your Possible Pasts]]".{{sfn|Cormack|2024|p=192}} He wrote that the lyrics of "[[Comfortably Numb]]" were "the greatest ever in rock music".{{sfn|Cormack|2024|p=175}}