How to Make Your Guitar Sound Like U2

 Ever wonder how U2's guitarist "The Edge" (alias David Howell Evans), gets such cool sounds on his guitar? This video will show you how...

 

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If you listen to the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" you can hear how The Edge uses a repeated delay effect on the intro. He's playing through a Vox AC-30 Amp.  It's the first track of U2's Joshua Tree album. 

The Edge likes to play as few notes as possible...

 "I like a nice ringing sound on guitar, and most of my chords I find two strings and make them ring the same note, so it's almost like a 12-string sound. So for E I might play a B, E, E and B and make it ring. It works very well with the Gibson Explorer. It's funny because the bass end of the Explorer was so awful that I used to stay away from the low strings, and a lot of the chords I played were very trebly, on the first four, or even three strings. I discovered that through using this one area of the fretboard I was developing a very stylized way of doing something that someone else would play in a normal way."

Lately I've used my electric guitar with a distortion pedal to create some parts for a song I'm recording.  However, this video makes me want to pull out my delay effects box to see if I can come up with some new creative songwriting ideas.

It's nice to feel inspired!

Till next time...

Keep practicing!
K.Unruh
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