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Breakdown of Zooropa guitar

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laoghaire

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Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« on: September 14, 2019, 08:52:45 PM »

What I find interesting about this tutorial is that we get to hear the guitar totally clean (no delay/effects) and then with first delay, second delay, and effects added in. It really helped me to conceptualize what I'm hearing.

I can already hear "a certain kind of person" (nobody on this forum, just "out there") smirking that Edge isn't a great guitarist, just look at these dinky four notes. "He's nothing without his effects."

Well look at what he can do with four notes. It's incredible. Four notes are so unique, so meaningful, so inventive, so precise and clean. Show me any shredder who can make so much of four notes.
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Re: Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2019, 09:11:34 PM »
Really interesting video.

What is actually really impressive is how he has worked out the delay/effects to play such a good sounding version of the parts....really takes some doing that
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Re: Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2019, 09:41:23 PM »
The delay settings (eighth and dotted eighth) are known among guitar geeks who study The Edge at all. I imagine this particular effects pedal was also shared somewhere in the guitar nerd world, and the guy in the video (who is hawking this equipment for his pro shop) probably just had to play a bit with the effects pedal settings.

But yes, he is playing a very credible riff there, hats off to him.

For the record, if I had a guitar and amp, that shop would definitely have sold those delays and effects pedals to me.
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Re: Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2019, 02:51:21 AM »
Wow. It reminds me when I managed to get that sound. I had sorted out the delays but I didn’t have a seek wah effect. I just had a regular wah wah pedal. So I had to manually (with my foot) switch the wah effect on and off at the song’s pace. Very frustrating.

The sound I found the most difficult to replicate at the time was mysterious ways. I managed to get close to it (forgot the combination of effects) but that was hard. And to this day I still don’t know how he pulled out the Mofo sound...
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Re: Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2019, 07:22:20 AM »
Incredible stuff...gotta love it.
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Re: Breakdown of Zooropa guitar
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2019, 11:09:22 AM »
Nice video. A lot of the "Edge Sound" insight videos are so grim and they all think the Edge sound is a basic delay sound. So annoying at times. This fella takes time to get the sound and the tones
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