The Edge: fender amps?!

Alterlifeson

He was using the same set up at Twickenham last month. Still sounded like Edge to me! As far as I'm aware he has used the Fender/Vox combo since the early 2000s.

I do agree that his driven sounds do sound different though, he has passed on a lot of processing to the Fractals.



2009 360 Tour - I believe most of this is now gone!

clarkefan

Interesting photo I've like to understand all that stuffbut my brain isn't capable

Does anybody know if the battered Vox on top is THE Vox?

ICBM

clarkefan said:

Does anybody know if the battered Vox on top is THE Vox?

Yes, it's the 1964 one with the later - and from a normally undesirable production era - cabinet, hence the non-typical logo.

paulmapp8306

richardhomer said:

capo4th said:

U2 so fuckin boring 

No - at their best they were/are truly wonderful....

True, though they haven't been at their best for 30 years.

slacker

paulmapp8306 said:

richardhomer said:

capo4th said:

U2 so fuckin boring 

No - at their best they were/are truly wonderful....

True, though they haven't been at their best for 30 years.

Neither have the amps from the look of them

Bridgehouse

english_bob said:

DrBob said:

Bridgehouse said:

Larry Mullen is one of my bass playing heroes.

I am very much in the lead is more camp for bass playing, and the fact he gets away with 4 notes throughout With or Without You and pulls it off so well shaped my playing style a lot.

At the risk of riding roughshod over a carefully constructed piece of double bluff, ironic genius, isn't Larry Mullen the drummer ?

Yep. Either yer man was thinking of Adam Clayton, or else his joke was way too subtle for either of us.

I really need to get a new 500k pot fitted to this fucking subtlety filter...

slacker

Go for 50s wiring

Bridgehouse

slacker said:

Go for 50s wiring

I was gonna recover it in Tweed..

ICBM

paulmapp8306 said:

richardhomer said:

capo4th said:

U2 so fuckin boring 

No - at their best they were/are truly wonderful....

True, though they haven't been at their best for 30 years.

I actually think some of their best songs are on All That You Can't Leave Behind - only 17 years ago - but I'd accept that it became quite patchy after that.

dindude

Sassafras said:

He uses so many effects he could probably play through a stack of Boss Katanas and it would sound the same.

And other cliches ...

Alterlifeson

ICBM said:

I actually think some of their best songs are on All That You Can't Leave Behind - only 17 years ago - but I'd accept that it became quite patchy after that.

I thought the same up until their most recent album came out. I can't think of a band of their stature/heritage that has put out anything half as good in recent years. I know it got slated because of the rediculous way they released it, but there are some great tracks there IMO.

stickyfiddle

I agree entirely with ICBM. ATYCLB is as good as JT and AB for me. 

The three since have all had good moments, but none have been properly great overall.

Danny1969

For me some of the best tones were on the Unforgettable Fire, absolutely brilliant guitar player. 

I really don't get why Hendrix can use a shitload of effects and no one bats an eyelid yet The Edge use's delay in a really creative original way (since widely copied) and people think he's nothing without effects !!

Personally I think The Edge had more influence over the way I play guitar than anyone else  

As for Fender I'm about to lug a hardcased Fender Twin out of the van and into a car to do a Wedding gig tonight. Great clean tones if used with  a compressor and a superb drive channel. Shame the things are so heavy. Last week I used a Vox AC15 at a big festival. It was the hand wired one and I got some pretty decent U2 tones out of that by driving it quite hard with the delay before gain type thing 

57Deluxe

I hope they are stable and don't inadvertently fall off the stage...