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To be honest the lack of info about Edge's rig is frustrating.

I thought that Premier Guitar would do a rig rundown for Edge. They did one with Peter Frampton recently, and that was 1 hour 15 minutes long, probably the longest one I have seen.

Would Edge take that long?

Or maybe the length of the video wasn't an issue, maybe U2 couldn't fit them into the schedule or something, I don't know, but if U2 go out on tour again at any stage this year, I hope some new information comes though on the rig.
 
it feels like Peter's rundown was done during rehearsal, not necessarily in between soundcheck or during tour. probably Edge couldn't afford to take that much time especially considering that they were writing (partying) outside of tour.

but I loved that Peter mentioned Edge and Tom morello during that rundown. at least he respects different types of players.
 
Odd thing is, the guitar magazines don't seem so interested in The Edge. I don't remember there being a feature article for the 360 tour.

There was the Music Radar Online article. That had a lot of gear info, short chat with Dallas and no interview from The Edge.

Maybe he's not so keen to do them anymore? Maybe the guitar magazines just don't see the Edge helping them sell magazines?

Next leg of the tour and new album are on the horizon, so we're told. Perhaps something will occur during the next leg of the tour? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
 
I am kinda sure that weirdly negative connotation associated with Edge and his (anti-) guitar hero status don't help sell magazine. Every time i see Guitar World in CVS, all the guys on the cover are metal or classic rock player. Recent ones had David Gilmour (you know, his solo record), Eddie Van Halen, and Dave Mustaine. I can't believe these people are on the cover in 2016, not 1985. Sure, inside the magazine there are some articles from alt. rock people like Chris Cornell or Tom Morello, but still it's filled with technical players. So considering that, Edge might not be so keen to cater to these old blues folks or metalheads who pretend as if they can play like Steve Vai by appearing in these magazines.

But Im sure there could be some coverage next tour as probably they won't be writing songs (or getting drunk like Bono in NYC) in next leg.


Or what if the Edge isn't kind of guy who likes to talk about his gear in detail? I don't think he's like Eric Johnson who needs to know every minute detail about his gear or Billy Sheehan/Paul Gilbert who often do guitar/rig setup themselves.
 
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It's weird that Edge doesn't use Axe-Edit to adjust the parameter on the Axe-Fx.


btw, that tone when he's playing One sounds surprisingly spot-on.
 
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He's probably got so much rack gear in his rig, the wiring to control them all via editing software is probably such a hassle its easier to just do it via the front controls.

Also, now that I've been playing around with my own unit its dawned upon me that Fractal made a big mistake by having that USB connector at the back. Because when the Axe-FX is in a rack, having to much around at the back of your rack to insert an USB cable is not really something you want to do. Let alone a rack the size of The Edge's. It really should be at the front.
 
In the new amp video Edge was using an MXR Carbon Copy pedal. Could he be using this in his live rig?

Great to see three new Fender videos about the amp and the signature strat with Edge in them, I thought they were all quite good.
 
The Edge15 said:
In the new amp video Edge was using an MXR Carbon Copy pedal. Could he be using this in his live rig?

Great to see three new Fender videos about the amp and the signature strat with Edge in them, I thought they were all quite good.
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I feel like Carbon Copy was just there because Fender factory had that pedal.

but yeah, i was wondering whether Fender was gonna seriously promote Edge's guitar or not, while they promote other models so much more (i've seen more coverage for Jimi signature strat, which is getting lots of hate, and American Elite, which will probably sell a lot).
 
Muad'zin said:
He's probably got so much rack gear in his rig, the wiring to control them all via editing software is probably such a hassle its easier to just do it via the front controls.

Also, now that I've been playing around with my own unit its dawned upon me that Fractal made a big mistake by having that USB connector at the back. Because when the Axe-FX is in a rack, having to much around at the back of your rack to insert an USB cable is not really something you want to do. Let alone a rack the size of The Edge's. It really should be at the front.
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yeah seems to be that all the jacks seem to be just put in the back (except for instrument input/output).
btw, I kinda hate the fact that something as advanced as Axe-Fx has screen that looks like my TI graphing calculator. I mean, look at Line 6 Helix. they have nice color screens with better visuals.
 
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Line6 Edit also looks better then Axe Edit. Of course looks says nothing about functionality. And what you can edit in Axe Edit is sooooo much more then Line6 Edit. Maybe too much.
 
Muad'zin said:
Line6 Edit also looks better then Axe Edit. Of course looks says nothing about functionality. And what you can edit in Axe Edit is sooooo much more then Line6 Edit. Maybe too much.
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I know visuals are independent of functionality but it improves the experience while using it (though I kinda dissed my TI calculator display, I actually like cheaper model of TI graphing calc. rather than more expensive ones with better resolutions).
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDY_S1-gF6M/


just go nuts, peoole. I can't really tell what pedals he's using. seems to be he's using his sig strat and casino. I see standard wah on the floor. that's all i can tell from the pic.

EDIT: I can also see something that looks quite similar to SDD3000 pedal on the table.
 
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yeah I see 2 boss pedals and one of them is yellow (so I'm sure it's sd-1 or 2). or could it be Sd-1x (btw that's a joke, but I actually want to try out those ds-1x or sd-1x that came out last year or so).
 
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also it's not too related but isn't it amazing that Edge does some pedal changes/preset switching during the tour? as much as he can, at least.

Im watching good number of interviews of metal guitar players these days and they all say they mostly oddest do pedal changes themselves.
 
Considering that plenty of bootlegs taken from in-ear feeds show that they use click track for everything, Edge, or Dallas for that matter, shouldn't even have to switch anything manually, it could all be done by midi driven automation. I can only suspect that he likes doing it himself, or trusts Dallas to do it for him.

Personally I like doing it myself as well, although it does restrict your freedom to move on and off stage. I consider a pedal board as an instrument by itself and where's the fun in not playing your instrument? Midi driven automation would be nice for some songs though, but that would require our drummer playing along with click track. Which she flat out refuses. I guess I would have to train the bass player to hit the right knobs at the right time for me then.
 
Mack_Again said:
yeah I see 2 boss pedals and one of them is yellow (so I'm sure it's sd-1 or 2). or could it be Sd-1x (btw that's a joke, but I actually want to try out those ds-1x or sd-1x that came out last year or so).
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The Yellow boss pedal is a SD-1. i see two large knobs, and the tone knob in the middle


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yeah I'm sure not a lot of people aren't so into other modes (even Kurt Cobain didn't use "turbo" mode on DS-2).
 
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I actually quite liked the turbo mode on my DS-2. Or OD-2. Normal modes sounds so whimpy after you've put on the turbo. It's probably just because the human ear perceives the same sound but only louder as to the better sound, and turbo usually involves a volume increase as well. Then again I'm a MOAR GAIN kind of guy. I always maximize the gain on my pedals. :D
 
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I actually quite liked the turbo mode on my DS-2. Or OD-2. Normal modes sounds so whimpy after you've put on the turbo. It's probably just because the human ear perceives the same sound but only louder as to the better sound, and turbo usually involves a volume increase as well. Then again I'm a MOAR GAIN kind of guy. I always maximize the gain on my pedals. :D
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I am also one of those guys who doesn't know any limit when it comes to gain but I use this power stack pedal from Boss which is actually pretty ballsy sounding so I guess I'm so satisfied with that.

I wonder what kind of gain pedal Edge is using now as it seems to be that he isn't so crazy about DBA pedals (Death By Audio as a concert venue is apparently dead: The Death of Death by Audio - The New Yorker), I'm wondering what kind of gain sound he's into. Seems like he's into less crazy distortion sound? not too fuzzy, have more body/low-mid, etc.
 
can see sum things better now. edge man has had different pedals
before on show but alot of them never made the gig :)

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