![]() The instruments and the amps are generally vintage everything in the middle is what's modern. I would have expected him to have the newest/latest instruments, but that's not the case at all. This also helps explain how many of the synth effects on U2 records aren't from keyboards (though he does play piano/keyboards on various songs).Īn interesting note: many of The Edge's tour guitars are from the 60s and even 50s hardly any are new. Behold the "Infinite Guitar" (shades of Spinal Tap here) and note the utterly insane series of effects in his pedal board. The Edge Talks Guitars, Part 2Īnd now the riffage. In this interview, The Edge demonstrates his first electric guitar, discusses it extensively, and plays a few demo riffs. Now as a birthday tribute, let's geek out on The Edge's guitar rig. I discovered that through using this one area of the fretboard I was developing a very stylized way of doing something that someone else would play in a normal way." It's funny because the bass end of the Explorer was so awful that I used to stay away from the low strings, and a lot of the chords I played were very trebly, on the first four, or even three strings. It works very well with the Gibson Explorer. So for E I might play a B, E, E and B and make it ring. "I like a nice ringing sound on guitar, and most of my chords I find two strings and make them ring the same note, so it's almost like a 12-string sound. The Edge has said that he views musical notes as "expensive", in that he prefers to play as few notes as possible. For example, the introduction to "Where the Streets Have No Name" is simply a repeated six-note arpeggio, broadened by a modulated delay effect. On 1987's The Joshua Tree, The Edge often contributes just a few simple lead lines given depth and richness by an ever-present delay. Wikipedia discusses The Edge's signature riff for "Where the Streets Have No Name," which depends extensively on delay.but also was inspired by the crappiness of The Edge's original guitar - half the strings didn't sound any good, so he didn't use them. ![]() While this mega-tech approach seems fairly common now, its complexity was decidedly over-the-top when U2 debuted. ![]() He famously developed an ultra-complex guitar rig, involving a massive pedal board, a series of rack-mounted effects processors, a stunning array of pedals, and a series of vintage amps. In the 51 years since, The Edge has become known for his layered, echoing guitar lines. Today in 1961, Dave Evans (known as " The Edge" of U2) was born.
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