LIV
Active topics


  1. Edge wrote and recorded "With Or Without You" with the Brooks Infinite Guitar. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only tune he's used this for.

    Edge used the Infinite guitar for the live performances of "With Or Without You" through (at least) the ZOOTV Outside Broadcast portion of the ZOO tours. By some point during Zooropa, he'd gone to using an E-Bow with his Gibson Les Paul Custom.

    Edge and the Infinite Guitar (Squier Strat with Infinite Guitar p'up in it.


    Since the Zoo tours, it's been a succession of Fernandes Guitars with "Sustainer" pickups in the neck position.

    POPMART - Fernandes Decade Elite w/Sustainer pickup. [There was one orange and one in cyan.]





    ELEVATION - Fernandes Native Pro w/Sustainer pickup. [dark green metallic finish. This guitar was highly modified. The original humbuckers were changed to Seymour Duncan Hot Rails (singl space humbuckers), a new pickguard was cut to accomodate the smaller p'ups and the neck was swapped from the Native Pro (3 tuning machines on top, 3 on bottom) to the Decade Elite style neck [with all tuning machines on top of the headstock, similar to a Stratocaster]



    Although he did used the Decade Elite's a few times during Elevation. Not sure if it was for WOWY or not. I think the orange was used for Discotheque/Starting at The Sun a few times.



    This one is from the Miami dress rehearsal




    VERTIGO - Fernandes Retro Rocket w/Sustainer pickup. [Only "Custom" thing about this was the black finish/black pearl pickguard, Oddly, the Retro Rocket isn't commercially available in black!]

  2. So, it seems that I was right
  4. Behind the Scenes: Magnificent = Country Club it is!

    1:52 into the video you get a good look at the pickups - which are DynaSonics and not the FliterTrons of the Irish Falcon.

    Per Gretsch Pages:

    "Cadillac Green" finish when combined with the brilliant gold hardware made this guitar both visually stunning and worthy of being displayed at any art museum. Now, the classic Cadillac Green Gretsch Country Club is back!

    Features include:
    DynaSonic™ (2) single-coil pickups = CHECK
    "G" long tailpiece = CHECK
    adjustable bridge = CHECK
    detailed binding = CHECK
    and enough gold hardware to make Fort Knox envious = And CHECK
  5. Wow, you know a lot about guitars
  6. _.
  7. Hi folks,

    right now I'm playing once or twice a week in a church freestyle worship rock band. We do of course start with certain songs and we also rock quite hard, but we also include a lot of jamming, improvising and atmospheric / spacey / almost ambient instrumental parts. I'm using a lot of volume swell, Ebow, ChickenSalad vibe, TunaMelt tremolo and / or RV600 shimmer for those while our pastor / keyboarder plays a piano & string sound or takes a break. Now I'm thinking about getting myself a guitar synth for some really weird stuff. Maybe it's just a crazy idea, but then again, well...

    On the market there are certain options like:

    - EHX MicroSynth (250€) - cheapest option, square wave, built in two- pass filter, no dry / wet mix
    - Pigtronix Mothership (450€) - expensive, square and triangle wave, glissando option, intelligent ring modulator, dry / wet mix
    - EHX HOG (500€ / 600€ with pedalboard) - insanely expensive, seven octaves and fifths, simple filter, glissando, expression pedal, dry / wet mix
    - EHX POG (320€) - four octaves plus detune, simple filter, dry / wet mix
    - Roland GR-20 (500€) - expensive, digital sound library, good presets but few adjusting options, requires adding a Hex p/u

    Of course the MicroSynth is the best option price- wise, so it's first on my list. The thought of adding a Hex p/u to one of my guitars doesn't seem very attractive to me, and dialing presets is sure less fun than tweaking around on the fly, so I put the GR-20 last. But does anyone of you have any experience / opinions / suggestions about these? Can these sounds be combined well to vibe, trem or shimmer? I've been watching some youtube reviews recently and I'm infected by serious GAS but I'm still not quite sure what to do. Even the cheapest option is still a lot of money, so I thought I'd better listen to some other's thoughts.

    Alex
  8. Originally posted by Alex:Hi folks,

    right now I'm playing once or twice a week in a church freestyle worship rock band. We do of course start with certain songs and we also rock quite hard, but we also include a lot of jamming, improvising and atmospheric / spacey / almost ambient instrumental parts. I'm using a lot of volume swell, Ebow, ChickenSalad vibe, TunaMelt tremolo and / or RV600 shimmer for those while our pastor / keyboarder plays a piano & string sound or takes a break. Now I'm thinking about getting myself a guitar synth for some really weird stuff. Maybe it's just a crazy idea, but then again, well...

    On the market there are certain options like:

    - EHX MicroSynth (250€) - cheapest option, square wave, built in two- pass filter, no dry / wet mix
    - Pigtronix Mothership (450€) - expensive, square and triangle wave, glissando option, intelligent ring modulator, dry / wet mix
    - EHX HOG (500€ / 600€ with pedalboard) - insanely expensive, seven octaves and fifths, simple filter, glissando, expression pedal, dry / wet mix
    - EHX POG (320€) - four octaves plus detune, simple filter, dry / wet mix
    - Roland GR-20 (500€) - expensive, digital sound library, good presets but few adjusting options, requires adding a Hex p/u

    Of course the MicroSynth is the best option price- wise, so it's first on my list. The thought of adding a Hex p/u to one of my guitars doesn't seem very attractive to me, and dialing presets is sure less fun than tweaking around on the fly, so I put the GR-20 last. But does anyone of you have any experience / opinions / suggestions about these? Can these sounds be combined well to vibe, trem or shimmer? I've been watching some youtube reviews recently and I'm infected by serious GAS but I'm still not quite sure what to do. Even the cheapest option is still a lot of money, so I thought I'd better listen to some other's thoughts.

    Alex


    I don't really know how they work, but one of those external MIDI pick ups that you don't want to get may work really well. If it works as I imagine, you can put the signal into any kind of synthesizer that works with MIDI and you will be able to get virtually any sound using your guitar as an interface. I imagine this is not really what are you looking for, but speaking guitar+MIDI, it can't get any better than something that works like this (if that thing really works as I think it does).
  9. Originally posted by thechicken:[..]

    I don't really know how they work, but one of those external MIDI pick ups that you don't want to get may work really well. If it works as I imagine, you can put the signal into any kind of synthesizer that works with MIDI and you will be able to get virtually any sound using your guitar as an interface. I imagine this is not really what are you looking for, but speaking guitar+MIDI, it can't get any better than something that works like this (if that thing really works as I think it does).

    Hm... thank you very much for answering. I understand your point about the quality of the trigger signal. But what kind of synth would you recommend to use with Hex p/u? As I understand it the Roland GR-20 is merely a preset sound library, I'd prefer to tweak around on the fly. I like knobs and faders.

    As I said, I'm haven't decided anything yet, not even IF I'll get a guitar synth.

    Any other opinions / suggestions?

    Alex
  10. Originally posted by Alex:[..]
    Hm... thank you very much for answering. I understand your point about the quality of the trigger signal. But what kind of synth would you recommend to use with Hex p/u? As I understand it the Roland GR-20 is merely a preset sound library, I'd prefer to tweak around on the fly. I like knobs and faders.

    As I said, I'm haven't decided anything yet, not even IF I'll get a guitar synth.

    Any other opinions / suggestions?

    Alex


    It really depends on the kind of sounds you want to get out of it. I would like to put it through a regular synthesizer, like my old Yamaha DX21, so I could play piano sounds on the guitar, things like that. You could get a good prommagrable unit, it could be just with the "head" or a more conventional unit with the keyboard interface atached. It could cost a lot, depending on the unit you get. I don't know a lot about synthesizers, but basically anything that works with MIDI would be a way to go, you just have to find one that can turn your ideas into noise

  11. I haven't worked with MIDI interfaces yet, it's kind of mysterious voodoo for me. Not quite sure if I can learn how to use it without external help.

    Hm... guess I'll take a lucky shot at a Behringer BSY600 for 40€ and see how that turns out to be when used with a guitar.

    I know that most people don't like the Behringer brand, but I have a US600 (Harmonizer - third up) and a RV600 (Shimmer) and both work just fine for me despite mixed reviews on HC. Guess I'll give the BSY600 a chance. If it all goes wrong I can still sell it used for 20 bucks. Nothing much to lose on that.

    Thank you very much. You've been most kind and informative.

    Alex
  12. Originally posted by Alex:I haven't worked with MIDI interfaces yet, it's kind of mysterious voodoo for me. Not quite sure if I can learn how to use it without external help.

    Hm... guess I'll take a lucky shot at a Behringer BSY600 for 40€ and see how that turns out to be when used with a guitar.

    I know that most people don't like the Behringer brand, but I have a US600 (Harmonizer - third up) and a RV600 (Shimmer) and both work just fine for me despite mixed reviews on HC. Guess I'll give the BSY600 a chance. If it all goes wrong I can still sell it used for 20 bucks. Nothing much to lose on that.

    Thank you very much. You've been most kind and informative.

    Alex


    You are welcome.
    Just ask when you need!
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.
Contribute to the U2 community with uploading photos or by telling us which shows you have visited.