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Position:Home>Performing Arts> The Edge's guitar?Question: The Edge's guitar!? Anybody out there know what types of guitars the Edge of U2 is using!? If anybody can give me a few types, and also tell me what kinds of effect pedals/amps he uses, it would be great!. If you can find the exact pickups he uses, Im prettys sure you'll get best answer!.
Any info will do though!Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: As a guitar player, The Edge is recognised as having a trademark sound typified by understatement, a chiming, shimmering sound (thanks in part to the signature sound of classic VOX AC-30s) that is achieved with extensive use of digital delay effects, reverb, and a focus on texture and melody!. To achieve an "Edge-like" sound, the digital delay's delay is set to a dotted eight note (3/16 of a measure), and its "feedback" adjusted until the number of repeats is about 2 or 3!. According to his guitar tech Dallas Schoo, a typical lead guitarist uses four or five different guitars in one night, whereas The Edge takes 45 on the road, and uses 17 to 19 in one 2!.5-hour concert!. He is estimated to have more than 200 guitars in the studio!. Here are some of his monster list!. Guitars/keyboards * Gibson Explorer * Fender Stratocaster * Gibson Les Paul Custom The Edge donated his cream Les Paul Custom to an auction to benefit Music Rising!. * Gibson Les Paul Goldtop * Gibson Les Paul Standard * Music Rising Gibson Les Paul * Gibson SG * Fender Telecaster * Fender Jaguar * Rickenbacker 330/12 * Gretsch Country Gentleman * Gretsch White Falcon * Line 6 Variax 700 Acoustic * Epiphone Casino * Epiphone Sheraton * Epiphone Standard Music Rising * Gibson J-200 * Fernandes Decade * Fernandes Native Pro * Fernandes Retrorocket Elite * Gibson ES-175 * Gibson ES-330 * Gibson ES-335 * Gibson Sonex-180 Deluxe * Gibson Byrdland * Washburn/Taylor Acoustics * Yamaha CP70 (Keyboard)/Piano When he takes over for bassist Adam Clayton for the song "40", he used the Ibanez Musician in The 1980s and the Lakland Daryll Jones Signature for the more recent Vertigo Tour!. The Gibson Explorer is The Edge's signature instrument; he said of the Explorer in 1982, "I think it's the most distinctive of my guitars!. It seems that the body shape affects the sound somehow!. It's a very vibrant guitar with lots of treble!. I had a Strat what I wasn't that pleased with in those days, and when I was in New York with my parents, I went to some stores to look around!. I picked up this secondhand Explorer and played around on it for a while!. It was just so naturally good, and it felt right, so I bought it!. It was quite cheap as well, about 450 dollars!. A lot of people look at it and think it's one of the originals (under 100 of these were made in 1958 and they are very rare) but it's one of the '76 limited edition reissue models!."[10] [edit] Amps * Vox AC30- his 1964 AC30 has been used to record every single U2 album and has been used for every single concert!. He has said in interviews that he owns over thirty AC30's!. * Fender Deluxe Tweed * Fender Blues Jr * Roland JC120 [edit] Pedals and rack * "Floor board" - Digitech WH-1, Dunlop Wah, Volume Control, Skrydstrup SC-1 (foot controller which controls the gear in rack, and the pedals as well!.) * "Rack" -Lexicon PCM, Even Tide Ultra-Harmonizer, TC 2290 Dynamic Delay, Line6 Pod Pro, Korg SDD 3000, AMS S-DMX, Korg A3, Line 6 CUSTOM Distortion Pro, Rockton DVC Volume Controller, Line6 DM4 Rackmounted Distortion Modeler (Custom Made) * "Pedals" - BOSS CS-2, BOSS FA-1, BOSS GE-7, BOSS PW-2, EHX Big Muff, Ibanez Tube Screamer, Lovetone Doppelganger, Lovetone Meatball, Skrydstrup Bufferooster, Sobbat Drive Breaker and 3 Boss ME-20 multiple effect floor stations!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |