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  1. Originally posted by Macphistfly:anstratdubh, I was wondering your opinion on the explorer for the chorus of a song.

    How would you get that air punching sound from the Beautiful Day chorus

    "It was a beautiful..." DUH-DER-DUH

    I've been trying to find that right sound but everything comes out too rough or too soft.


    Boosts and what effects push the sound.

    A lot of the 'big' sounds on ATYCLB seem to be Edge using a HiWatt amp. If memory serves, this is true of the BD chorus and in Elevation.

    So something with a HiWatt amp Mod, Line 6 POD or AxeFX, should get you in familiar sonic territory.
  2. Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]

    Oh, I know that. I should have worded that differently.

    No, he hasn't. However, I believe that Bono may have:

    [image]

    I remember reading somewhere that it's the heaviest LP ever made.


    No he hasn't. That is a completely different guitar. Bono's metallic-ish finish guitar isn't the mirrored guitar.

    Judging by the handful of pics and video that I've seen, Bono's metallic finish guitar might well be his black LP refinished.
  3. Originally posted by mikewazowski:[..]

    thanks man!

    Now, for a difficult one.
    See, I'm looking at edge's gear, knowing that I could never afford that, and trying to decide which pedals would be an addition to my gear (all with the puprose of getting the edge sound, or something like it).

    So I have a Boss ME-50 (not the best multi-effect unit around, but I bought it when I first got started), a Boss Digital Delay DD-3 and a Ibanez Graphic EQ GE10 and a Fender deluxe tube-amp.

    Now, I want to expand a little and I'm looking for advice about what to get.
    I want to get a clearer distortion sound and to be able to play UTEOTW, Breathe etc. better.
    I want something that seperates the tones better, because when I'm playing, for instance, UTEOTW, the notes seem to mix and become one giant distorted mess.

    I also want to get a decent dual-delay unit and a POG.

    Now, does anyone know what the best unit would be to start with?

    Also, i read somewhere that the current issued TS9's aren't as good anymore as the originals. Would it be better for me to buy a Maxon OD9?

    Sorry for all the question, hope someone can help me!

    Greetings,

    Mike




    Look for a Boss OD2 or OD2r on ebay. That is what Edge has used for UTEOTW. It has a nice warm compressed tone that nails that tone. It seems that is what Edge used for a number or tours.

    I am not 100% sure what he's using for UTEOTW on 360. I think it might be one of the Line 6 DM4 patches.

    TS9 modded by Analong Man will sound very good. The 808 Tubescreamer reissue is a good one too.

    Maxon is great. Maxon MADE the original 808 and TS9 Tubescreamers for Ibanez.
  4. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Really? That's pretty interesting...I wonder if Dallas went with him to pick one out, (not sure how much Bono knows about guitars ) Is Bono becoming The Boss? BRING BACK THE RED 335!!!!


    The 335 'might' have been destroyed in the studio flood.

    But if not, I'm with you. It's a great guitar.

    Wonder if Edge still has his tobacco finish 335; that he used for "One Tree Hill" during the Joshua Tree tour.



    Never really saw him use that for anything else before or since.



  5. ahahhaahha

    speaking of straps mine came off my new acoustic today, now the guitar is sporting a nice little dent in its side cuz it landed on the edge of a table
  6. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    The 335 'might' have been destroyed in the studio flood.

    But if not, I'm with you. It's a great guitar.

    Wonder if Edge still has his tobacco finish 335; that he used for "One Tree Hill" during the Joshua Tree tour.

    [YouTube Video]

    Never really saw him use that for anything else before or since.




    Good question, I've always loved the sound of that guitar. Something tells me it was replaced with the "One" guitar he used on the ZooTV tour, which I'm pretty sure got destroyed in the flood.
  7. I'm just about to get a Digitech PG-50, a guy sells it for just 30 euro and I will try it tomorrow.... but from what I've heard and seen (Youtube footage mostly) it's a great small digital effect pedal. Exactly what I need. Modest but effective
  8. hmmm I tried the PG-50 yesterday and was mostly happy with what I heard, but... what do you guys think? any of you have any experience with this pedal board (or however it's called in english!)? It felt a little "too cheap" for what it is, it has over 40 presets and you can basically imitate any effect or sound you want. I assume it's very worth the money they're asking me, but I just wanted to know your opinions
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:hmmm I tried the PG-50 yesterday and was mostly happy with what I heard, but... what do you guys think? any of you have any experience with this pedal board (or however it's called in english!)? It felt a little "too cheap" for what it is, it has over 40 presets and you can basically imitate any effect or sound you want. I assume it's very worth the money they're asking me, but I just wanted to know your opinions


    I say for that cheap, just grab it. I used a Digitech RP-250 (Very old, discontinued model of what they're making under the 250 name now) for years and years, and it really nailed a good studio sound for me to record with. Transferring to live performances, though, I've spent a lotttt of money going out and buying the individual effects that I need and setting up a chain. The tones I get with my Digitech Multi just don't sound good at all passed thru an amp loudly. I still have it set up, at the end of my chain, so that I can bypass the rest of my pedals and use some special effects for some songs, but I try not to use it as much anymore especially for simple things like distortion/overdrive, chorus, and wah. I bought pedals for that. Mainly used ones from independant shops that someone else got tired of. Great deals

    So, I say go for it. You've got a long life ahead of you to stock up on individual pedals if you start taking things way more seriously.
  10. Here's an amateur question about footswitches for you guys.

    I'm building up quite a large pedal board, becoming quite clunky and full- which I like- it makes me look even more experienced since I'm using them correctly Anyway, recently, I played a live show with my band and I was using the Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive pedal for more than half of our set. The problem, though, was that I had to keep bending down between songs and tweaking the knobs on the stompbox to suit the next song on the setlist. This is where footswitches come in- am I right?

    Here's how I understand things, in the perfect little world of Matt's head- please tell me if I'm wrong/explain this to me (This understanding is based off of a single-switch footswitch that came with my friend's amp, which allows him to save an effect from the amp into the stomp-switch and access the exact sound later, whether or not the effect knobs are in the same place)

    I would buy and use a regular old board with several different stomp-switches on it, just like the ones clearly visible in front of The Edge on some of those nice overhead shots on the Chicago DVD. The pedal board would be off to the side, not necessarily in main use, bar expression pedals of course. I would build a sound, tweaking the knobs of each individual stompbox, and then save it to one of the stomp-switches (Let's call it Switch 1), where that sound would be kept. I could then go back and tweak the pedals again and save another sound to the next switch (Switch 2), while still being able to access the original sound I made for Switch 1. Basically, at the end of the day, I could turn all of the individual stompbox's settings to 12:00, and when I hit Switch 1 and Switch 2, I'll still get the sounds I built and saved beforehand.

    Is this correct? Can things be done this way? Because if so...I really need to look into investing into a small board like that. My live fumblings are getting ridiculous, having to write every song's settings down and squat in between each song to tweak...

    Thanks for your help!!!
  11. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Here's an amateur question about footswitches for you guys.

    I'm building up quite a large pedal board, becoming quite clunky and full- which I like- it makes me look even more experienced since I'm using them correctly Anyway, recently, I played a live show with my band and I was using the Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive pedal for more than half of our set. The problem, though, was that I had to keep bending down between songs and tweaking the knobs on the stompbox to suit the next song on the setlist. This is where footswitches come in- am I right?

    Here's how I understand things, in the perfect little world of Matt's head- please tell me if I'm wrong/explain this to me (This understanding is based off of a single-switch footswitch that came with my friend's amp, which allows him to save an effect from the amp into the stomp-switch and access the exact sound later, whether or not the effect knobs are in the same place)

    I would buy and use a regular old board with several different stomp-switches on it, just like the ones clearly visible in front of The Edge on some of those nice overhead shots on the Chicago DVD. The pedal board would be off to the side, not necessarily in main use, bar expression pedals of course. I would build a sound, tweaking the knobs of each individual stompbox, and then save it to one of the stomp-switches (Let's call it Switch 1), where that sound would be kept. I could then go back and tweak the pedals again and save another sound to the next switch (Switch 2), while still being able to access the original sound I made for Switch 1. Basically, at the end of the day, I could turn all of the individual stompbox's settings to 12:00, and when I hit Switch 1 and Switch 2, I'll still get the sounds I built and saved beforehand.

    Is this correct? Can things be done this way? Because if so...I really need to look into investing into a small board like that. My live fumblings are getting ridiculous, having to write every song's settings down and squat in between each song to tweak...

    Thanks for your help!!!


    As I understand it, you can't do it. You would need 3 or 4 of the same pedal to do that. What the pedal board does it simply turning on and off a lot of pedals at once, so you won't have to be dancing all over the place when you are changing sounds. I mean, song X starts with overdrive and compressor, and later on it changes to chorus and delay. So you will save song X there:
    Preset 1: overdrive and compressor
    Preset 2: chorus and delay
    So when the board is set to song X, you can jump from preset 1 to 2 and it will turn off the overdrive and the compressor and turn on the chorus and delay only with a "step on", opposed to the four you would need without the board.
    The sound will still go through the pedals, so it is basically just a on/off thing.
    (MIDI pedalboards are a little different, but they need MIDI effects rack or pedals, and your regular pedal does not speak MIDI.)
  12. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Here's an amateur question about footswitches for you guys.

    I'm building up quite a large pedal board, becoming quite clunky and full- which I like- it makes me look even more experienced since I'm using them correctly Anyway, recently, I played a live show with my band and I was using the Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive pedal for more than half of our set. The problem, though, was that I had to keep bending down between songs and tweaking the knobs on the stompbox to suit the next song on the setlist. This is where footswitches come in- am I right?

    Here's how I understand things, in the perfect little world of Matt's head- please tell me if I'm wrong/explain this to me (This understanding is based off of a single-switch footswitch that came with my friend's amp, which allows him to save an effect from the amp into the stomp-switch and access the exact sound later, whether or not the effect knobs are in the same place)

    I would buy and use a regular old board with several different stomp-switches on it, just like the ones clearly visible in front of The Edge on some of those nice overhead shots on the Chicago DVD. The pedal board would be off to the side, not necessarily in main use, bar expression pedals of course. I would build a sound, tweaking the knobs of each individual stompbox, and then save it to one of the stomp-switches (Let's call it Switch 1), where that sound would be kept. I could then go back and tweak the pedals again and save another sound to the next switch (Switch 2), while still being able to access the original sound I made for Switch 1. Basically, at the end of the day, I could turn all of the individual stompbox's settings to 12:00, and when I hit Switch 1 and Switch 2, I'll still get the sounds I built and saved beforehand.

    Is this correct? Can things be done this way? Because if so...I really need to look into investing into a small board like that. My live fumblings are getting ridiculous, having to write every song's settings down and squat in between each song to tweak...

    Thanks for your help!!!


    Yeah you can't do that, stompboxes keep their settings unless you physically change them. The only effects processors that can do what you wnat are ones that can be controlled by MIDI, like the PodXT, AxeFX, M13, or pretty much any rack effect processor, Korg A3 etc.

    Essentially this is exactly why I backed out of a pedalboard and went with the M13, especially for a band atmosphere where you need to switch settings ont he fly, like you said. Most people that use pedalboards have what you call "loops" which are basically presets. Essentially what "thechicken" described right before me.

    People that use pedalboards most often have ONE clean sound, ONE boosted clean sound, ONE overdrive sound, ONE distortion sound, etc. Kind of like, clean tone, rhythm tone, and lead/solo tone. Then they have like Fuzz tone and so on, which is completely reasonable, you really only need things like that anyway, unless you're someone like Edge who has a totally different effect on every song.

    Essentially, you can go the expensive pedal board route, you get to know the pedals so you can get whatever tone you want out of them, you'll get a BETTER tone, they just LOOK a lot more professional and cooler, and more often than not you'll be able to swap out the effects you want and don't want.

    OR

    You can do what I did and go with a decent multi-fx system instead. No need to buy a board, tons of pedals, tons of quality cables (which you'll need) and a power solution, and a "loop" solution (although you don't NEED to go down that route), a buffer solution (kickstarts your signal so it doesn't get lost in all of your pedals and cables, yes this does happen). All of these reasons are what turned me away, especially since I'm not playing at a professional level. If I played in a band that made lots of money and so on, hell yeah I'd go back to pedals, they sound way better (at least to my ears), but beacuse I'm on a budget and just playing in a band that's trying to get somewhere, a multi-fx is where I went. I sold all of my pedals, my board, and bought an M13, and I haven't been happier.

    I hope I didn't put you down at all, (although I'm sure I might've ) but I'm just trying to inform you of things you'll have to start thinking about if you go down the pedalboard route. It's totally damn cool if you do it, I have buddies that have pedalboards and their tone is great, and even I get jealous that I don't use one, but in the end it comes down to how much money you're willing to spend, and "is it worth it" kind of thing.

    If you read all of that, kudos, I'd understand if you totally disregarded my opinion (i've done that ot people in the past, hence my 1800$ Vox AC30 ) I hope you make the decision that'll make you happiest.

    Alex
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