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  • Must be awesome to get so close to Edge's sound. And yet so humbling considering he came up with it without someone to copy it off :-)

  • what is that effect along with sustain(i use a ebow) that sounds like a violin on the track i cant find it anywhere

  • I could listen to this melody forever more.

    Great playing.

    Thanks......

  • great job.. The Edge really is a genius...

  • Brilliant.

  • Hi. Do you think an ebow could do the job of the fernandes sustainer? Are they complimentary?

  • Hi Gerry, are any of your guitars and/or amps vintage? Is your black strat standard/Mexican (I noticed 21 frets instead of 22). Thanks as always!

  • Hello John! I have a question about the DD20, brings memory to store presets? If so how many presets can be saved ... and I hope you can help me, you and mick have some enviable gears! Greetings from Mexico!

     PS: Use the google translator so sorry if I misspelled ...

  • @KrisMusiicMan The DD20 has 5 presets.

  • @u2john316 Oh Thanks!

  • Very impressive playing ...top 3 I've seen on youtube...besides the Edge himself!

  • you should really keep your thumb behind the neck

  • @tapPOOH Not necessarily!!!! It depends if you want to span frets (like classical style) or not and whether to block top strings from vibrating.

  • @tapPOOH thanks for the free lesson

  • i'm quite thankful i can emulate my hero (mark knopfler) with an amp and a guitar. I cant imagine the kinds of money this setup must cost

  • thats a great job, good sound

  • WOW! Estoy sin palabras! Gran cobertura, hombre! ¿Podría decirme la configuración de la M13 en esta canción? Yo realmente lo apreciamos. Gracias de antemano!

  • is it a vox ac30 c2 or c2x

  • hi , I just wanna ask about the values you set on your delay pedal ... I have a green Time Machine I know it won´t sound the way it should but I just cannot fit the values for feedback time a the strenght of the delay thanks for the answer Martin :P

  • Nice sound! I´m tryng to get the sound of this song and Where the Streets Have No Name with my Boss DD -7 but i don´t find it! Can you help me??

  • Nice sound! I´m tryng to get the sound of this song and Where the Streets Have No Name with my Boss DD -7 but i don´t find it! Can you help me??

  • how much did all those pedels cost?

  • your tone is killer

  • Love the tone! Amazing!

  • Yeah Edge's sound!!!!!!!in this song, use two delay's? that time,? 

  • excente

    

  • Hi there I play this with a strat which pickup position would you suggest to get that nice tone you have ??

  • The actual giutar parts are quite simple arent they? Sounds perfect tho!

  • Mate, great Edge sound. Just a quick question, is that strat clean or have you used any overdrive/booster or anything like that? I'm trying to get this tone on my Falcon and am stumped!

  • @Criddington It's not a strat but a Fernandes with Seymour Duncan pickups. These plus a boost comp from my DM4 helps drive the amp/notes more.

  • @u2john316 Thanks! I've used my Boss SD-1 on it's boost setting and it seems to give the same effect. I cranked the level of my delay up a bit too, as I noticed you have yours quite high

  • @Criddington yes the SD-1 will do the trick nicely.

  • what is the name of that guitar you are playing?

  • Wow, that's really good.

  • You have killer guitar effects and gadgets!! Well done bro!

  • i just want the edge's sound. i have an ebow and a nice digitech pedal board

  • @FunkyMotherfucker If your pedalboard has a modulated delay and you have a good amp like a vox ac4, ac15 or ac30 plus a strat or similar then you are practically there :)

  • @u2john316 i'm just bad at creating presets. i've been exploring a little with the software for my digitech, i guess in good time i'll tweak it to perfection. i have a line 6 spider 2 amp and my gnx4 digitech pedalboard most definitely has all necessary delay capabilities and i have a mexican HH strat. like i said, it's just my lack of experience with the pedalboard and the software is what hinders me

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  • scusate la mia ignoranza e la mia disattenzione. la chitarra è simile ad una Fender, ma non è una Fender. please forgive  my ignorance and my carelessness. the guitar is similar to a Fender, but it is not a Fender

  • Perfect sound!!!!

  • hi there, can you give me the tabs for this song? tnx. u can send to my email.

    t_gwapo@yahoo.com

  • Is it Fender Stratocaster?

  • @Petoman84 it's a fernandes retrorocket pro i think

  • @clavano its a Fernandes Retrorocket Elite

  • @u2john316 oh sorry my bad, the pro doesn't have sustainers. >.<

  • @Petoman84

    read the description

  • what reverb setting on the verbzilla is best for that Edge sound?

  • What other songs would you play with that guitar? i mean it would seem a shame to think that you payed £900 on a retrorocket elite just to play With or Without You.

  • @LFCmichael92 oh right i was just curious

  • What other songs would you play with that guitar? i mean it would seem a shame to think that you payed £900 on a retrorocket elite just to play With or Without You.

  • @LFCmichael92 You can play many songs with it (U2 and non-U2 sounds). It's also equipped with Seymour Duncan pups and is very versatile as a guitar.

  • @u2john316 Yeah but thats what am asking you? What other songs would you play with that guitar? i am in awe with your guitar playing and the way you play, and am just curious to ask you questions. :)

  • @LFCmichael92 Because this guitar has humbucking pickups they can be useful for more stronger sounds. From a U2 context, Ultraviolet and Discotheque were used by Edge (for various reasons). I've used this guitar for songs like Electric Co too. For non-U2 stuff, do a search on Youtube, you will definitely see other artists/songs with it being used...The sustainer can be switched on or off.

  • hi , nice job! i got also a retrorocket elite and wantes to ask you about the center pick up. Its not a seymour duncan as the bridge one and sounds quite bad in comparison with the bridge pick up. I´d like to have a clean and bright sound , tany suggestion? thx!

  • Why do you have a finger on the same fret as the first string, on the fifth? (For the intro)

  • @tomthebomb5725 If you mean at 54 seconds into the video, I am stopping the other strings from vibrating as the sustainer makes all 6 strings vibrate.

  • cheers, i was wondering cuz ive seen the edge do it as well and i thought it might have something to do with the pitch of the note

  • in wich place i can buy a fernandes sustainer ?

  • @fifer2316 you can check out the Fernandes website for list of resellers in your area.

  • i'm guessing you played with your pick upside down.

  • Retrorocket ?

  • Yes, Retrorocket Elite.

  • SICK- Nice setup dude!

  • God Job Man!!!!

  • Could you tell me what brand of middle pick up and bridge pick up? I have same model and color of yours but no susstainer. I want to buy a sustainer. Thanks

  • Matthew Bellamy from muse uses these all the time and he makes it sound great.

  • You say you want to see how "good" he is? We'll let's see... he's the main songwriter in the biggest band on the planet. Pretty "good" I would think. I have played in bands with guys that could do arpeggio sweeps at lightning speed, could contort their fingers to make any chord imaginable, and were considered "great" players. The thing is though, NO ONE has ever heard of my friends. I'm pretty damn sure that being able to perform gymnastics on the fretboard has little to do with what is "good".

  • Question about these guitars: From the website, I've learned that while other pickups pick up the sound, the sustainer pickup produces that again to sustain the note, so when it's on, you can't use the neck pickup, and sustain at the same time right? Can you still use it as a 5-way strat when the sustainer is off, or are you always limited to the 3 strat-posistions? Thanks

  • You should check out the Moog guitars. They would be amazing for some of this more ambient stuff

  • Damn!!! This guy doesn't fuck around. I been playing for 2 decades and this guy smokes me.

  • he has a good sound but what hes playing doesnt seem hard to play. the effects are doing most of the work. i like effects but i dont like them when they are basically making most of the music. with good effects you can play random 2 note power chords and impress a lot of people but you really arent doing much on the guitar. i really like his sound though and he has to know what hes doing to get the sounds he wants from his effects. i would like to see him play more to see how good he is though.

  • @clewi1091: It might not be difficult to play, but it's incredibly difficult to create something like this from scratch. That's the thing. People forget that sounds like this simply didn't exist before Edge.

  • u can tell this guy knows how to roll

  • Where-abouts would 365ms be on a knob for delay? (On a Floor POD Plus)

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  • wow wow thats exatly the EDGE SOUND fantastic--how much many do you spend on this equipment???

  • how do you manage to get that bright BRIGHT tone? I mean, that can't be only the AC-30, right? is that some kind of compressor or something like that?

  • increibleeeeee

  • Verry Nice! How do you get That harmonic violin sound when you are sliding?

    Grtz

  • I don't want to be one of those guys, but what's your delay time?

  • Not only can you play all the songs so well but all your gear is set excatly right. I'd never have the time patience and money to do that! I mean the EDGE doesn't cos he has one of the best guitar techs out there.

  • amazing !!

  • is it possible to put that on a normal strat ?

  • Yes it is. You need to buy the Fernandes infinite sustain kit and install it on a Strat... A few mods here and there, and of course, sacrificing your neck pup.

  • I've heard the wiring can be a bit of a dog's breakfast!! Hence I went with the stock Fernandes option here rather than re-wire one of my Fender strats.

  • this is amazing!

  • Your like the best at U2 covers on youtube! I love your work! thanks alot dude!

  • It looks like your running through the Blues Jr. Do you know what your settings were?

    Thanks.

  • No the Blues Jr is only used for the shimmer sound here. The main sound came from the Vox.

  • HAHA dude you are insane man props

  • YOU ARE AMAZING!

  • BTW, those switches remind me of the Fernandes Retrorocket, that a modded guitar with the fernandes sustainer or is it a retrorocket? lol

  • Dude.... you are INSANE! I am just so amazed... is it a Fender Strat? or is it a Tokai copy? I think The Edge's infinite guitar is a Tokai Strat copy that was given to him by a friend.

  • Thanks. I use the Fernandes Retrorocket - the same as Edge's current live guitar for this song.

  • your amazing, how about some in depth tutorials to teach this stuff, i love the edge

  • Hi john, i have a question: in the dd-20 can i set separately the two delays in the dual delay mode? Can i modulate them?

    Thank you!

  • Hello John :) I play this song too but unfortunately I don't have the amount of money to buy all the "right" Edge stuff yet. I use a Boss Me-20 for my sound, which works very well (missing the shimmer) but which delay unit would you say is the best? DD-20 or Timefactor?

    Btw u got his sound perfectly :)

  • Both are good. The TimeFactor gives you 40 presets (DD-20 has only 5).  You might want to consider a Line6 M13 multi-effect (includes shimmer).

  • I don't think that this is even close to an ebow. Sliding the strings on the sustainer is so much different than using the strings... imho...

  • It is like an e-bow in the sense that it can cause the strings to vibrate in a magnetic field. But yes this guitar offers better versatility. It is more musical and easier to control especially with more than one string potentially "sustaining" at the same time. I would never want to go back to an ebow after using this guitar.

  • thanks a lot for the post, it´s great music what u do. Is that a fernandes retrorocket elite guitar?

  • Yes it is.

  • next time put the bass lick in the loop great job

  • Fantastic!

  • Where did you get your Fernandes Sustainer? I've been looking for one.

  • Try the Fernandes Website. They usually have a section on how to find an authorised dealer.

  • cool thanks.

  • I think the edge would be impressed! Nice Job!

  • What is the setting on your timefactor for this delay? By the way sounds great

  • Sounds great Gerry. I think you have one of the best sounding, and most versatile, pedal-based rigs out there.

  • beautiful sound!

  • that´s is great!

  • awesome!! so you have the sustainer pup in the neck? and im guessing a hot rail in he mid whats in the bridge? Sounds great!!

  • Thanks Mick. The Sustainer pup is in the neck, and there is a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail in the Bridge. The middle pup is another Seymour Duncan - but not sure which one it is.

  • WOW...nice one!!!

    How much it cost a guitar like that???

    Keep it up!!!

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