Sound Like U2 (The Edge) | BY Busting The Bank 

I was just thinking they should stick to playing bands they enjoy listening to. Clearly from their playing, that doesn't include U2!

I love to play the U2 sounds. It's not as easy as you think.

@@simon_patterson they have to play it wrong so they don't get copyright claimed

It was exactly there! It shows how literally anybody can play guitar like him. He’s criminally overrated.

@@ryanspencerlauderdale687 Yes it is. If you have all the necessary effects (and there are a lot of them), it’s pretty easy.

Desperately needed

wonder if they stock any roland jazz chorus amps. because that's mostly it.

Chorus.

@@Fektthis they do stock the JC40 but he used an EHX Electric Mistress Flanger as a chorus so it should go Squier Telecaster Vintage Modified Marshall Origin combo EHX Electric Mistress TC Electronic Flashback TC Electronic Hall of Fame and maybe an MXR Micro Amp to push it

Yes please do Andy Summers of The Police

the songs which the explorer is used one more often include Even Better Than The Real Thing, I Will Follow and Beautiful Day they should've done them

Shouldve done both

@@KeeperOfPoops Even better is a 12 string rick.

@@KeeperOfPoops not Even Better mate, he uses it for Ultra Violet and New York though

@@thomaswyn5104 i don't know much about U2 so excuse me lol

Yup!!

The obvious

Exactly what I was thinking, People are so fast to bash on The Edge but his sound has so many subtle nuances that so many incredible guitarists can't replicate.

@@vDomMusic Yep. Bono said it: a lot of people criticize him because it sounds simple, so you try to play it. It his his style. Dave spends ages getting a sound. He nails it and basically sets the guitar exactly how he wants then does not touch the strings. It means he uses a lot of guitars in a set. It also means it is difficult to replicate the sound.

He is the mayor of tweak city

@Andrew Korvin they bash him for not being a virtuoso. But so what, he was in a post-punk that became giant pop stars for a decade. And he may not be a virtuoso, but he is a master craftsman of intense sonic landscapes.

Except Andy Summers is a phenomenal technical player

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Brilliant!

Bono walks into an african village and says “when did my plane divert to belfast?”

pubs - Ireland's natural sunscreen.

😂😂😂

The Edge walks into a bar and says, "I'll have.... a pint... of Guinness, please". Barman says, "Sure thing but why the delay?"

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haha where did all these U2 jokes come from, i am just reading more you guys are funny AF

It sounds like she can live with or without you.

Not big into U2 knowledge so forgive me if i'm wrong... But isn't it sort of known that most of the recordings were done with a strat. The explorer was really just for live.

@@chrisjames7489 it's more like, his first couple albums and several songs thereafter were with the Explorer, but his most famous licks and iconic songs tend to have arisen from the Strat.

Sounds like Ghost would be great, but don't they go through members like Spinal Tap goes through drummers?

Trevor Reniger They’ve only gone through about 4 singers (Papa Emeritus 1-3 and currently Cardinal Copia) but I believe their guitarists are still the same, but now that you mention it a Sound Like Spinal Tap would be amazing

@@andrewpappas9311 Singer Has been the same the for everything, just changed his look. The band members have been replaced multiple times over though.

Yeah - I ordered some just to try and it makes a nice chirping sound that is part of his tone. Definitely missed that in this video.

The absolute key sounding the The Edge. Also don't know they didn't use the 2290 setting on the TC Flashback which is basically the Edge preset.

Can confirm, i got some recently it adds at least 40% of edge tone to your sound

Even those fins from Dunlop get you in the ballpark.

Finally someone talking sense

Agree 100%

Too easy!

Teador Malfoy yes yes yes yes yes

Guthrie is 99.9% finger tone

Thank you that's a great list

They did a special episode with Andrew Groves from Arcane Roots ages ago. It was really cool and remains one of my favourites. Also, RIP Arcane Roots.

@@thebenjyman253 RIP Arcane Roots :(

@@thebenjyman253 ​ @Ross Henderson I see someone mention Arcane roots, and now i have spiralled into a manic depression :( Cheers guys :( :( PS if you like them, maybe check out Sleep Token as a new alternative

get a rockman sustanior and you have peace sells + so far so good so what

We'll add it to our list! In the meantime check out our Captain Meets video with Marty Friedman! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8KLfKvVqVgM.html

@@andertons that was great, Marty is very un-usual type of musician ... and yes, please ... do the Marty Friedman era Megadeth

Spot on here Yinon. That strat does not sound like the edge at all. You need a trebley strat for the edge. That one is too dark. But its custom shop so it must be good.

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Completely agreed. He plays a lot less notes than you would think for some of these riffs, relying a lot on the delay (often times with two different delays at different lenghts like dotted 8 with quarter note for example). The way he holds the pick AND the kind of pick makes all the difference. If you do not have a Herdim like he uses, A black Dunlop nylon pick with the "3d" writing on it will do if held reverse of what you would normally do (reverb.com/ca/p/dunlop-44p10-nylon-standard-1-dot-0mm-guitar-picks-12-pack?gclid=CjwKCAjw-ITqBRB7EiwAZ1c5UzK-XPFoWg7ErNn-3yjwntZ61eO3fMCFliGx76IEDU4buDky7IS8VRoCehcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&hfid=20997160&merchant_id=101073192&). The letters as well as the wider plastic area of the pick hitting the strings will give you his signature chimey attack. But several of the riffs were just played completely wrong and that really bothered me. You usually do a better job of that. Streets doesn't have so many repeats and the repeats (especially the first) is just as loud as the picked note. Same with Bad which you didn't play here (watch the 185 Live Aid version for a great example of his playing with and off the delay and how little he actually plays (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HvBgRSSlVBA.html). He also adds dynamics by mixing lightly picked half muted strings licks and more strummed parts (again Streets is a great example : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uDkBzkA9L4s.html). Like Andy Summers (in another style but another guitar player often playing against delays), the playing is economical and and very dynamic in varying intensity and usually pretty lightly picked... except when not which makes that part stand out. Both Edge and Summers play in instrumental trios and need to fill a lot of space and give songs their dynamics. With these two, it's really a lot in the fingers... This one is a miss for me as well.

So true! Much love to you my friend

@Mark James it does sound like the edge, it sounds very much like him

they played same stuff 1rst time too-but i guess they want to repeat and see sound difference matt did call him 'the mighty edge'-so maybe they've heard more than 4 songs

Fall of..... because...

ES 295 into Framus Dragon heads, but was using Burmans (kinda like vintage Marshalls) back in the day. Normally using a Line 6 delay live. Geordie's sound is mad, he has to roll the volume off the second he stops playing to stop the feedback from screaming out. You can get a decent version of his sound using a hollow body/ semi-hollowbody with a powerful overdrive (Friedman OD is killer) going into some chorus and delay pedals. But it's basically impossible to really imitate his tone.

especially Beautiful Day and I Will Follow

@@KeeperOfPoops And all the earlier stuff

@@frankconcepcion6593 Actually no. He was already using a Strat live at least as early as January 1981. And a white Gibson Les Paul. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2l0WxiR9_xA.html Most of their best stuff IMHO was probably recorded on that all black 70s Strat, even (and especially) in the early years.

nah i think they sounded closer in the BY busting version

That Strat is beautiful but i think it may have fallen out of someone's car on the highway and destroyed it.

Yeah, I completely agree. But it's really not the first time they took an artist with such a huge catalogue and just focused on one specific era of theirs. Hell, even the Beatles episode suffered a little bit from that! I think it's really just a matter of time constraints for doing the research involved both in repertoire and gear. And I feel that's also the reason I enjoyed the without busting episode more than this one, where the limitations left them pleasantly surprised and having fun (which arguably makes a difference to the playing, therefore the sound). I may not be the biggest Edge fan, but holy hell, his tone is one of the best I've ever heard, and it really should be approached with respect!

I also agree - but with such a broad catalog it's tough. BUT - this leaves some room for them to "explore" his tone further...and they could even do this with other artists. :-) One of my "practice" songs on youtube is the live version of "Until the End of The World"...and would like to see them "bust the bank" for that rig...and others. At least the amps are consistent...so that helps!

Mysterious Ways wasn't the LP, it was a Rickenbacker!!

Love Big Country!

And if you can, can you play it? There's so much layering going on in their sound it was sometimes hard to know who was playing which part.

Same here.

Tim Jx all about the pick!

I don't think this episode was about the playing, it's more about how to build an edge style, I think they did well

To avoid de-monetization

Who would buy that?

@@tinktinkputra2316 people who like a great Tweed Deluxe

@@davidjameschamberlain if you one of those, maybe you should just read the description

@@tinktinkputra2316both are great. Edge sig strat also great for pink floyd and way more. Read the description indeed…

Reverb with shimmer. You can get it on the boss RV6