U2 & Guitar Gear: Q & A

Originally posted by thechicken[..]

I have always left my basses with the cables in and I never had any problem.
About the batteries, there is plenty of room beneath the pickguard to put a battery. And if you mess up, you can always change the pickguard, but you can't bring the wood back.

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
He says modestly

I was playing my mate's PRS something or other earlier, wouldn't get one personally (aesthetically, it just doesn't do it for me) but I couldn't deny that it's a great guitar for £450 (so that's what...$600+?). Great pickups, good action - I was cracking out Electric Co. and it felt great lol. Alright, the effects I was using at the time were all wrong (he's got this Line 6 amp. that seems to have a permanent phaser effect going on in addition to his multi-FX pedal, which was set to something mad) but it still sounded great

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

PRS makes great guitars. Their hollowbody and thinline hollowbody's are fantastic. Their guitars with the P-90's are great too.

Alex Lifeson from Rush used PRS's for ages, joking in one interview that PRS meant Penis Reduction System but that it didn't work form him... didn't reduce his.

The Santana models are reasonably priced and fare well in reviews. So I've nothing against PRS guitars. Ibanez, Jackson, Charvel... however... Hahahahaha Get out the spandex!

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
lol indeed. I don't think it's a Santana model, but I'm not sure, I'm trying to find out now for reference lol. And re. Ibanez, pssch I dislike them intensely, but as for the other two makes, I'm not so familiar...

EDIT - tis a PRS SE Custom

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

To my understanding those are fairly affordable and decent sounding guitars. I shall have to feck with one at Guitar Center or Sam Ash some time soon - just for shits and giggles.

Originally posted by bcgdThis is the Fernades I mentioned earlier. It's called an Monterey LSA-65 and they're no longer being made. Solid basswood body, bolt on maple neck, steel string electric/acoustic. Shadow piezo pickup. Quality Rosewood fretboard, bridge and tailpiece. Cool sound too. Think early Dave Matthews. I think I sold it for around $500 on eBay in '99. Oh well...

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Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

`Cept early Dave Matthews used a Gibson Chet Atkins solid body acoustic with piezo. But I get what you mean. Seems like an interesting guitar, that Fernandes.

Originally posted by bcgd[..]

Exactly. I couldn't afford the real deal so I scored this for half the price. Oh, and purchased it at Grayson's Tune Town in Montrose. (A little local humor for Jeff)

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979Being that I have a stompbox effects factory of stompbox effects... I have my main and my smaller pedalboard.

This piccy I took with my phone this evening. Phone cameras sort suck but it gives an idea of what is on the smaller board. I will take and post a better piccy once I get a digi-camera:

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As guitar effects are right to left (like reading Hebrew) Here is what is on the pedalboard from R - L:

- BOSS PSM-5 (power supply) [red]

- BOSS OD-2r Turbo Overdrive [yellow] - Edge used a OD-2 for Until The End Of The World during ZOO and POPMART tours

- BOSS PW-2 Power Drive (overdrive) [orange] - Edge used one on his smaller board for the 1997 Tibetan Freedom show and it appeared in his main rig on the Vertigo tour

- PSIONIC AUDIO 'Z2' (distortion) - You'll notice the familiar "BOY" album graphic. Lyle from Psionic Audio made 13 of these, sending one to The Edge himself. The Z2 is a copy of the old Guytone Zoom distortion that Edge used around the time of the October and War era.

- BOSS DC-3 'Digital Dimension' (digital chorus) [pink]- The DC-3 was sold from March 1988 to August 1993. The name was changed on later version to 'Space-D' to avoid a law suit. Luxurious sounding chorus pedal. It's like having a great digital rack mount chorus in a lil box. Good stuff. NAILS Andy Summers-like chorus tones.

- BOSS PH-2 Super Phaser (phaser) [light green]

- BOSS TR-2 Tremolo (tremolo) [dark green]

- BOSS RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay [charcoal] - Can be used as a digital delay, reverb or combination of both.

Behind the row of pedals, is the Boss TU-2 guitar tuner. The orange Boss pedal that is also back there and not hooked up is a BOSS DS-1 Distortion.

Originally posted by U2Nick[..]

dude, thats awsome!