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DutchU2Fan

8 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:The Edge has brought back his Variax this tour!! He's playing Mothers on it:

[YouTube Video]

I love that guitar but the Vertigo painting looks SO out of place

Originally posted by DutchU2Fan:Edge is using his acoustic Vertigo Tour (Line 6) guitar!
LikeASong

8 years

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:[..]
He has a sparkly one as well, would that fit?

More than the Vertigo finish, for sure!

@Tim didn't read your post! I had realized this guitar when I saw the video a couple of hours ago but didn't post it then. Well spotted anyway
LikeASong

8 years

I Will Follow on the Les Paul!

Maybe this is the Popmart tribute tour after all
LikeASong

8 years

Where The Meows Have No Name!
mofothethird

8 years

Honestly that is my aesthetic. Cool pic Sergio
LikeASong

8 years

The tape covering Fernandez's name on the headstock

http://u2start.com/photos/view/23091/#
Release3

8 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:The tape covering Fernandez's name on the headstock

http://u2start.com/photos/view/23091/#

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I noticed that, too. Any idea why he did that? Lol
DutchU2Fan

8 years

Singer of Twenty One Pilots also did that:
bushido529

8 years

Any one know how to replicate the MW sound? I heard it was a Korg A3 or something like that? Is it other alternatives?
jick

8 years

Originally posted by Release3:[..]
I noticed that, too. Any idea why he did that? Lol

My theory: That guitar is a Fender "clone" done by Fernandez. The Edge had some involvement with Fender now. And sometime in the past there might even have been a lawsuit between both companies.

So why doesn't The Edge just use a Fender strat? Well, my guitarist nephew said that it's because Fernandez is the only company that makes a sustainer pickup which is basically a built-in ebow.

Today you can already buy the sustainer pickup separately and install it but The Edge has owned his Fernandez before that was invented so perhaps he is just a creature of habit or doesn't have to change things.

I think that sound of the Fernandez guitar sustainer pickup get prominent in the guitar parts of the verse "there is a silence that comes to our house".

Again, this is all a hypothesis and a theory on why The Edge taped it. This is all speculation at best.

Cheers,

J
LikeASong

8 years

It's obviously due to him joining Fender's board, and Fender and Fernandes relationship is far from being good... The weird thing as you note is why doesn't he install the sustainer pickup in a proper Fender strat
LikeASong

8 years

Originally posted by bushido529:Any one know how to replicate the MW sound? I heard it was a Korg A3 or something like that? Is it other alternatives?

EMMA Discumbobulator plus flanger plus overdrive can get you close enough, but the Korg is the real deal.

Read up on it:

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/u2-song-mysterious-ways-what-effects-and-what-settings.1239688/
http://www.tdpri.com/threads/mysterious-ways-phaser.28784/#post-268788

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