About Marius A. Schmidtke Expertise U2`s sound and equipment! I metU2`s Edge and his guitar tech already personally in real life.
Experience I met Edge's Tech Dallas Schoo once and he was quite amused about the design of the webpage. He laughed, when he saw the little VOX images there.
Expert: Marius A. Schmidtke Date: 1/29/2004 Subject: Silver and Gold
Question This is probably not an easy question but...
I am trying to figure out Edge's guitar settings on the b-side cut of Silver and Gold...not the live version but the studio version. From what I can tell he's using tremelo and reverb and possibly some delay...Any info you can relate would be greatly appreciated as I think this is one of U2's best songs ever and I just love the sound of Edge's Strat (God, it's got to be a Strat, doesn't it?). Also, a little help with tab on the end of this song where it fades out would be nice too (I know I'm asking for too much but any info would be helpful)!
Answer hi chris!
thanx for your question! :-)
i think it's quite easy to replicate this sound as edge's configuration there sounds dead simple to me. i would basicly go with the same gear he's using live: so take out your stratocaster (70ties model with maple neck will work best there) with a tremolo and then use a class-a amp (best is a vox ac-30 of course, using the brilliant channel). the amp should be nearly at its clipping position. so you have a very loud clean sound and as soon as you are strumming the strings hardly, you will have overdrive! well... the rest is done by the boost of the korg sdd-3000 delay. it is a modulation delay, which creates the sweep ambient chorus delay sound. you can replicate this easy i. e. with a cheaper electro harmnonix memory man deluxe. it does have the modulation as well. the delay would be somwhere near 400 ms i would say. last but not least: try out the main bridge pickup as well as the beck pickup. edge uses both there.
well... a tab is a bid time consuming for me to do (i'm only focussed on sound-questions to be honest), but you should try to go with: E and A as your basic notes. make sure that you may have to tune your quitar down for half a note. edge uses that tuning very often. but i'Ve forgotten whether he has used that on that song too. but i just wanted to tell you, so that you are not standing absolutely in the dark there! :-)
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