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I just bought a Fender Mustang III (best thing that fit my budget)

A while ago, I had seen a forum where people were sharing files that could be loaded into amps and pedals like this, that have the digital interface preset format, and some were for U2 songs. Perfect reproductions of Streets, The Fly, close ones of Mysterious Ways, Bad, etc...but I can't seem to locate them anymore. Does anyone have any information as to where those might be? They'd be awesome to just load right into the amp and jam away until I can figure out how to edit the settings nicely myself.

Macphistfly

14 years

Mustang, lucky s.o.b!

I'm getting an SX left handed explorer, very rare and very good - especially for a lefty like me.

How is the new amp treating you?

MattG

14 years

It's an amazing little box...actually smaller than my Fender 90W Deluxe, but has the same size speaker and packs 100W. Had lots of fun figuring out initially how to use it, and it will keep me eternally busy.

wtshnnfb01

14 years

Bono dont even try playing the guitar here.

anstratdubh1979

14 years

I wonder why The Edge doesn't use the 1975 walnut Telecaster Custom more often.

First time that I saw Edge with this guitar was at the 46664 concert. (Late 2003, I think?)

http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=A0oGdVr1VSBO5wwA1jlXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=U2%20Long%20Walk%20To%20Freedom&fr2=tab-web&fryfp-t-413

It next appeared in the "Vertigo" video in 2004.

It appeared on the Guitar World cover in 2005 and the Australian Guitar magazine cover in 2006(?).

He used it for "Magnificent", "Vertigo" and "Get On Your Boots" during the BBC rooftop show.

Vertigo (BBC rooftop)

Get On Your Boots (BBC rooftop)

Magnificent (BBC rooftop)

It can be seen in the bonus footage of the Pasadena 360 DVD. There is footage from the soundcheck in Barcelona. Edge tells Dallas something to the effect of "give us a guitar" and he gives him the 1975 Telecaster Custom and the footage shows him playing a few things, I think "Magnificent" is one of them.

Seems no one has ripped and posted that footage to YouTube. Anyone have clips of that? Anywho...

Seems to be a great guitar. Seems odd that it isn't used more. I wonder why that is?

jofice

14 years

I know the clip you mention about him playing it in Barcelona on the bonus disc. Was wondering why he never used it, it's looks pretty sexy.

anstratdubh1979

14 years

Originally posted by jofice:I know the clip you mention about him playing it in Barcelona on the bonus disc. Was wondering why he never used it, it's looks pretty sexy.

And if you look at the clips where he's used it, it sounds great.

It works great for "Magnificent". The slide parts benefit from the neck position humbucker.

Guess that is one to ask Dallas or Edge one day.

PS: I want that brown crocodile guitar strap!

Macphistfly

14 years

I'm in the market for a good, lightweight (left handed) acoustic. I want to be able to bounce Chris Martin style.

Any suggestions?

Macphistfly

14 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

And if you look at the clips where he's used it, it sounds great.

It works great for "Magnificent". The slide parts benefit from the neck position humbucker.

Guess that is one to ask Dallas or Edge one day.

PS: I want that brown crocodile guitar strap!

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is that a P90 and a Humbucker or do my eyes deceive me?

jofice

14 years

Looks like it actually. Good spot.

anstratdubh1979

14 years

Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

is that a P90 and a Humbucker or do my eyes deceive me?

Your eyes deceive you. That is a Fender 'Wide-Range' humbucker. That is not a P-90.

The Fender Telecaster Custom, first introduced in 1972, had a humbucker in the neck position and a single coil in the bridge position.

The pickup itself was Fender's first humbucker and was designed by Seth Lover, who designed humbuckers for Gibson previously. He and Fender both agreed the idea wasn't to re-make a pickups that sounded like the Gibson but to make something that sounded different. Out of that came the Fender 'Wide Range' humbucker, which Lover designed.

Lover's Fender humbucker is felt by many to be brighter with more bottom end than his Gibson versions, and a better match for the classic Fender bridge pickup.

These guitars were in production for only 8 years, it was the perfect combination of fender gibson sound with its single coil pickup in the bridge. The humbucker used was the same type used in the Thinline range of fender telecasters produced in 1968.

They were only made for 8 years but there is a reissue. That said, and like many reissues, there can be differences to the original.

Differences: The re-issues and road worn copies featured a different bridge to the original 72 custom, and the re-issues bodies produced are not supplied in natural finish, unlike the originals once were but in black or sunburst only designs. The headstock logo (decal) font is also different, as the originals were not produced in italic in respect of the wording "Custom".

Both versions feature a reissued version of the Fender Wide Range humbucking pickup, which differs fundamentally in construction from the original. The original WRH used magnetized CuNiFe (copper, nickel and iron) polepieces (slugs) with a copper wiring around the slugs, while the reissue has a standard non-magnetized set of slugs with an AlNiCo (aluminum, nickel, Cobalt) magnetized bar underneath. This standard humbucker is fitted in the larger casing of the original pickup, using wax to fill the void. The original WRH measured an average of 10.6 kΩ and used a 1 MΩ volume pot and a 250 kΩ tone pot, while the reissue measures a fairly standard 8 kΩ and uses 250 kΩ volume and tone pots. This results in a much darker sounding reissue wide range pickup.

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0137502306

lestertriplett87

14 years

What kind of guitar has Edge been using for Zooropa? I can't really tell from the videos. Is it a different one that he used in '93?

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