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ok this is what works for me, and because I love you guys...here ya go!!!
posting again so you guys see it
1. You need a good amp.

2. Most of these songs require you to use Herdim Picks. I use Jim Dunlop Grey Nylons and turn em backwards. Note: These songs WILL NOT sound write with out these picks...ya you'll "almost get it", but you will nerver be truly satisfied lol None of my videos are using these picks and I will probably replace them.

Streets: 2 Delays set at 350 (it sounds ok with one, but I discovered today that it really needs the two, Compressor set at Max, Overdrive for second verse, and that should work...NO CHORUS. People totally srew this song up by adding chorus...DO NOT do it.

Bad: 2 Delays set at 450 and Max Compressor. Clean

ISHFWILF: One delay does for this at 450. Same with compressor at max. Also, if you have it, get a line 6 reverb pedal and set effect to octo. it is simply the best for the price. capo 1

Disco: For the riff try clean with a tad bit of drive and for the chorus kick the overdrive into full. For the bridge, switch to clean setting with 350 seconds of delay.

UTTEOTW: Full Overdrive, 450 delay. Max Compressor...edge is a compressor hoe lol capo 3

NYD: With a good les paul...you wont need any overdrive, but for most, kick it about 3/4 drive with delay set at 350. Im not sure about compression as I have not tried it yet...

BTBS: I only play the Rattle and Hum version cuz its easy ...Turn drive all the way up and turn compressor on all the way. For muted strings/wah parts, play with a clean sound...also I belive the overdrive is off in the chorus, otherwise, dont look back lol

Pride: Same as bad.

Van Diemans Land: Clean sound with 450 delay. Usually sounds good on a hollow body only.

I Will Follow: Delay at 250 and turn overdrive about 3/4 way.

Walk On: Drive with 450 seconds of delay.

AIWIY: Delay 450, Compression, and for the solo kick it in to Overdrive.

Well hit me up if you wnat more. Note: this is what works for me. Have fun!!!

thechicken

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

Ric 12's have the tuning pegs that face forward and one's that face backwards. So from a front view of the headstock, it might appear to be a 6 but it is a 12.

Example:
http://www.mlode.com/~813/byrdsrick2_headstock.jpg

Now, that is interesting!! Thanks!

anstratdubh1979

16 years

Originally posted by thechicken[..]

Now, that is interesting!! Thanks!

Here's a better picture to show what I meant:

So it is easy, with the reverse facing tuning pegs, to see why some might think Edge's Ric's are 6 string Rics. (But they ain't)

The reverse tuners are for the octave strings and the 'regular' arranged tuning heads are for the 'normal' setting strings.

Note: Rickenbackers are 'odd' in the 12 string world. MOST 12 strings have the octave strings ABOVE the main strings. Rickenbacker put them below the main strings in the 1960's when they began making the 12-string electrics to appeal to 6-string players who were looking to 12-strings for some of the 'folk music' of the day that was coming out. (Dylan, The Byrds...)

thechicken

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

Here's a better picture to show what I meant:

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So it is easy, with the reverse facing tuning pegs, to see why some might think Edge's Ric's are 6 string Rics. (But they ain't)

The reverse tuners are for the octave strings and the 'regular' arranged tuning heads are for the 'normal' setting strings.

Note: Rickenbackers are 'odd' in the 12 string world. MOST 12 strings have the octave strings ABOVE the main strings. Rickenbacker put them below the main strings in the 1960's when they began making the 12-string electrics to appeal to 6-string players who were looking to 12-strings for some of the 'folk music' of the day that was coming out. (Dylan, The Byrds...)

I didn't know this octave thing, I always though it was just two sets pu together...The strings are the same gauge? tuned up an octave higher?? By the way, this thing looks much more pratical than the regular huge headstock.

anstratdubh1979

16 years

Originally posted by thechicken[..]

I didn't know this octave thing, I always though it was just two sets pu together...The strings are the same gauge? tuned up an octave higher?? By the way, this thing looks much more pratical than the regular huge headstock.

The 'octave' strings are a lighter gauge. The B and high E string are the same pitch and not octave.

Ex:

low pitch to high - IN STANDARD tuning

E - the biggest string is at "E" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
A - the biggest string is at "A " and the string next to it is an octave higher.
D - the biggest string is at "D" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
G - the biggest string is at "G" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
B - the biggest string is at "B" and the string next to it is THE SAME "B" in unison.
E - the biggest string is at "E" and the string next to it is THE SAME "E" in unison.

Rics, as earlier mentioned, have their main string above the octave:
Ee Aa Gg Dd BB EE

Most other 12 strings are reverse:
eE aA gG dD BB EE

make sense?

thechicken

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

The 'octave' strings are a lighter gauge. The B and high E string are the same pitch and not octave.

Ex:

low pitch to high - IN STANDARD tuning

E - the biggest string is at "E" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
A - the biggest string is at "A " and the string next to it is an octave higher.
D - the biggest string is at "D" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
G - the biggest string is at "G" and the string next to it is an octave higher.
B - the biggest string is at "B" and the string next to it is THE SAME "B" in unison.
E - the biggest string is at "E" and the string next to it is THE SAME "E" in unison.

Rics, as earlier mentioned, have their main string above the octave:
Ee Aa Gg Dd BB EE

Most other 12 strings are reverse:
eE aA gG dD BB EE

make sense?

Yeah, great explanation, I always though that it was two sets on the same pithces...livin and learnin...What difference makes which one is on the top or on the bottom anyway...
Poor Dallas, he must have a good salary.

WojBhoy

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979
Nope. It was not painted different. What seems different to you about that guitar? (The cream 1975 Les Paul Custom)

Well judging by the PopMart DVD, if that IS the cream LP (on Mofo and IWF) it doesn't look cream to me lol...it looks like it's got a camoflauge-esque paintjob, hence my confusion...

anstratdubh1979

16 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
Well judging by the PopMart DVD, if that IS the cream LP (on Mofo and IWF) it doesn't look cream to me lol...it looks like it's got a camoflauge-esque paintjob, hence my confusion...

Camouflage? Put the crack pipe down and step away!

Your eyes must be playing tricks on you from the stage lighting or from the light o' the PopMart video screen.

WojBhoy

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

Camouflage? Put the crack pipe down and step away! Your eyes must be playing tricks on you from the stage lighting or from the light o' the PopMart video screen.

I'm gonna watch it again to make sure...but I'm almost certain it ain't creamy coloured!

Hang on, I may have a pic somewhere...

I swear that's the guitar he used...at least it's the one I'm thinking of lol (and yes I know that isn't a Pop era pic lol...). Is it just the light catching it then or something? Either way, crack pipe or no

that isn't a cream LP!

anstratdubh1979

16 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
I'm gonna watch it again to make sure...but I'm almost certain it ain't creamy coloured!

Hang on, I may have a pic somewhere...

[image]

I swear that's the guitar he used...at least it's the one I'm thinking of lol (and yes I know that isn't a Pop era pic lol...). Is it just the light catching it then or something? Either way, crack pipe or no that isn't a cream LP!

The Edge couldn't have had the guitar in the picture you posted, during Popmart, as it wasn't made until 2005.

The Edge used the 1975 Les Paul Custom for MOFO and I WILL FOLLOW during PopMart.

The guitar you pictures is the 2005 Gibson Music Rising guitar. Gibsom made these with the procedes going to Music Rising, post Hurrican Katrina in 2005. The finish were various coloured splatter finishes referred to as "Mardi Gras" finish.

Not only did The Edge get a few but they were on sale to the public for around $4000 and $11000 for the signed versions. Guitar Center has subsequently sold them all.

In 2006 Epiphone, Gibson's sister company, made the black finish Epiphone Music Rising Les Paul Standards with the Music Rising logo on them.

Edge was seen using one of these during the last leg of the Vertigo tour and the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

WojBhoy

16 years

Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]

The Edge couldn't have had the guitar in the picture you posted, during Popmart, as it wasn't made until 2005.

The Edge used the 1975 Les Paul Custom for MOFO and I WILL FOLLOW during PopMart.
[image]

The guitar you pictures is the 2005 Gibson Music Rising guitar. Gibsom made these with the procedes going to Music Rising, post Hurrican Katrina in 2005. The finish were various coloured splatter finishes referred to as "Mardi Gras" finish.
[image]

Not only did The Edge get a few but they were on sale to the public for around $4000 and $11000 for the signed versions. Guitar Center has subsequently sold them all.

In 2006 Epiphone, Gibson's sister company, made the black finish Epiphone Music Rising Les Paul Standards with the Music Rising logo on them.
[image]

Edge was seen using one of these during the last leg of the Vertigo tour and the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

...I better stay off the crack then lol. God knows what I was thinking...

anstratdubh1979

16 years

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
...I better stay off the crack then lol. God knows what I was thinking...

Crack kills.

[just messin' w/ya]

Sometimes the lighting in some of the video bits can play tricks on one's eyes.

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