UltraViolet 360 tour guitar?

[Edge_Orchestra]

Looks like Edge is using a Stratocaster for UltraViolet. At least on opening night.

 

[phillyfan26]

Do you just wanna make one big thread for the opening night guitars?

 

[theedgeu2]

do you just wanna make one big thread for the opening night guitars?

+1

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Looks like the Explorer for "Angel of Harlem"

YouTube - U2 Barcelona 2009-06-30 Angel Of Harlem

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Looks like Edge is using a Stratocaster for UltraViolet. At least on opening night.

Looks like I was wrong. I found better video. Looks like a Fernandes Retro Rocket for UV.

YouTube - U2 Barcelona 2009-06-30 Ultra Violet

 

[BadaBing!]

Sounds and looks very much like a Fender Strat to me.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Sounds and looks very much like a Fender Strat to me.

Check the headstock. It isn't as 'rounded' as a Fender.

It appears to be more like the one in the picture link below.
Fernandes - Official Home of Fernandes Guitars

 

[The_Pac_Mule]

that would make sense, since they go right into with or without you afterwards.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Seems that a Fernandes with white pickguard is being used for "UltraViolet".

Check the video - in the beginning you get a good shot of Dallas tuning it up for Edge:
YouTube - U2 Milan 2009-07-07 Ultra Violet

 

[theedge269]

To post chaps. Totally agree the Fernandes Retrorocket

 

[digitize]

The Retrorocket sounds a lot like a Strat, at any rate.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

The Retrorocket sounds a lot like a Strat, at any rate.

Edge's RetroRockets have Hot Rail humbucer pickups in the bridge and middle position (Sustainer in the neck position).

Stratocasters, at least The Edge's have single coil pickups. So while they might look the same, I not so convinced that they sound the same.

 

[phillyfan26]

You can really hear the difference on the bridge during this tour. You're not getting that kind of a tone on a single-coil.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

You can really hear the difference on the bridge during this tour. You're not getting that kind of a tone on a single-coil.

In the bridge of? Just wondering...

If you mean "With Or Without You"? The p'ups have been the same type on the Fernandes guitars used since the Elevation tour.

The RetroRockets have Hot Rail (humbuckers) in the bridge and middle with sustainer in the neck position. This was the same pickup configuration Edge had in this Native Pro during the Elevation tour.

 

[phillyfan26]

No, I mean on Ultraviolet, compared to what it would sound like if it actually was one of Edge's Strats and not the Retrorocket.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

No, I mean on Ultraviolet, compared to what it would sound like if it actually was one of Edge's Strats and not the Retrorocket.

Strat might sound a bit thin there.

 

[Galeongirl]

Can personally report it was a Strat. I was on Edge's side in Paris II. He changed guitars for WOWY.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Can personally report it was a Strat. I was on Edge's side in Paris II. He changed guitars for WOWY.

With all due respect, I think you are mistaken.

Yes there is a guitar change. But it is from one Fernandes to another Fernandes.

Check the video of UltraViolet:
YouTube - U2 Milan 2009-07-07 Ultra Violet

You can see Dallas tuning a black Fernandes with white pickguard for Edge. The headstock is the shape of a Fernandes. Unless they've had a Fernandes neck put on a Fender Stratocaster, I am 99.99999% that is a Fernandes guitar.

Check the shape and contour of the headstock in the video (above) and in the picture below. They match.

The picture below is of the black Fernandes with grey marble pickguard that Edge has used for With Or Without You since the 'Vertigo tour'.

Here is another clear shot of a Fernandes RetroRocket Elite. Compare the headstock to the one in the video of UV and you will notice that the shape and contour match.

Here is the shape of a Strat headstock. This one being the all black Strat used for Streets.

It doesn't match the headstock in the UV video.

 

[BB Mac]

yip is def Fernandes headstock so gotta be a Fernandes guitar unless
its just a head change which i doubt! i will check it out @ the Dublin shows
its gotta be played at least once for sure!

 

[Galeongirl]

Ah you are, as always, right Edge O. I couldn't see the headstock from where I was standing, and since it was black and white, I thought it was the Strat.

 

[7cs]

It's a Fernandes for sure.
I was in milan in the first row, right in front of Edge, and to be sure a took a look at it using binoculars... Fernandes is what I've read on the headstock.
It has got those strange high output "hot rails" pick ups from seymoun duncan.

 

[BB Mac]

thanks 7cs for spotting the high output pick ups.
you didnt see exactly what mics he was using on
the amps? im sure sum of the fenders are shure
SM57s

cheers BB

 

[7cs]

thanks 7cs for spotting the high output pick ups.
you didnt see exactly what mics he was using on
the amps? im sure sum of the fenders are shure
SM57s

cheers BB

Yes, I've seen two Shure wireless receivers.

 

[BB Mac]

7cs i ment on the Amps-> Vox number 1/fender deluxe

 

[7cs]

7cs i ment on the Amps-> Vox number 1/fender deluxe

Sorry, I haven't seen that... but look at this Hey, Edge! How much is for these old amplis! I'm gonna buy o... on Twitpic, maybe tou can find out

 

[BB Mac]

wooh cheers it looks like 58s on the vox's

 

[7cs]

Here's another pic "Vox and Fender" sounds like "rock and roll" on Twitpic
It seems like the mic on the upper fender is different from the others.

 

[7cs]

I notice that the mics are not positioned right between the ampli speakers but in the middle of the of the left one, and it's like this on all the amplis both vox and fender.
Any theory about this fact?

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

T'is how it's uaually done.

Usually pick the better of the two speakers and have the mic just off center from said speaker.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Yes, I've seen two Shure wireless receivers.

Sure receivers are probably for Edge's vocal headset mic. Not sure of the wireless unit he's using for guitars. Could be Shure too. Amps are mic'd and sent out to the mix board for Joe O'Herlihy to mix.