STREETS 1987

Original guitar has been removed using AI. You can hear the track minus Edge in some points were my recording was muted.

Pride 1987

Used my homemade Red Special guitar with 3 Vox AC30s. The one in the center is a real AC30CC2X with blue alnico UK speakers, the 2 amps on the sides where modeled using my Axe FX II unit. 

I used my Fryer Deluxe treble booster in front of everything and splitted the signal from there.
A chorus pedal (BOSS CE1) was added to the sides. 
Just one take straight into Pro Tools.

No special post processing. Just a basic high pass filter and a touch of reverb.

Queen - One Vision - 3 AC30s Setup

Got a break from work and tracked this cover.

As you can notice by listening to the original track, Edge's guitar is panned hard left basically for the whole track...So I removed the left channel and used the right one as a backing track, then added my own guitars on top.

Gear used: Ibanez Artcore AFS75 >> Axe Fx 2 >> Pro Tools

On the Axe Fx 2: some drive with the  FET boost >> digital delay >> Vox AC30 amp sim

Added some shimmer for the intro and a touch of phasing for the break after the first chorus.

Added a hint of compression (needle barely moving on the LA3A, just because we can...) and some reverb, then bounced from Pro Tools as it was. No further processing was applied.

I don’t own any right on this song. No copyright infringement is intended. All the copyright goes to the respective owners.

U2 - Inside A Volcano

This time around I decided to copy the settings from Edge's main AC30 on my own AC30 and see what'd came out from that. This is the result (w errors, lazy playing and so on).

I just wanted to get a clue of the rough AC30 sound with Edge's settings, so no SDD or other pedals were used this time around.

Chain was very basic: 70s Strat >> Boss DD20 >> AC30 captured with a AT2035 condenser off-center straight into the Apollo into ProTools with a touch of Lexicon224 for a bit of reverb and that's it.


U2 - All I Want Is You (Edge's AC30 Settings)

Spent some time with the album version today. If compared to the live version, there are some differences in both sounds and playing. Pretty cool, indeed.

Used a pretty basic setup and 2 main sounds:

Explorer 50th >> DD20 >> AC30 for "sound 1" (main riff, verses...)
Added the Paisley Drive to get a clean boost for "sound 2" (solo, outro...). Main drive comes from the amp itself.

For the clean sounds you hear during verses I simply backed off the volume of the guitar just a tad.

Added some reverb with my trusty EMT140 and automated a resonant LP filter for the main riff right after the solo and that's it for the post production.
No EQ. compression or other special effects have been added.

I just played with levels and pans VERY roughly (far from being mixed). What you hear is what was coming from the amp itself.

U2 - End Of The World

Test with 2 amps, AC30cc2x and AD60VT
Red Special>>Fryer TB Deluxe>>Amps

Room microphone only.

Red Special 2 amps - room only

Gone for the "JT Tour Era" sound.
Gear used:
Gibson LP / M13 / Emerald SDD3000 preamp / DD20 /AC30CC2X


U2 - In God's Country

Quick run thru my main preset on the Axe Fx 2. 

Fx Chain:
-sdd preamp
-delay
-amp1: ac30 tb (main amp - vox1)
-amp2: ac30 tb (additional amp - voxinabox "style" - very low in volume - dry signal only)
-touch of room reverb

Guitar is my main 70s Strat.

Of course the original guitar has been removed from the tracks. I ripped them from the DVD and then edited them myself to make the backings.

No post processing added. maybe it sounds a bit too much overdriven, but i think it's closer to the Slane sound. 

U2 Cover

U2 VOX1 + VOXBOX Preset - Slane Mix

I was noodling around with my Sub 37 and a track from Metroid Prime and this is what came out...

Another Landing Site - Moog Sub37

Quick run thru some of my sounds. Just as a reminder for my future self. Original guitars have been taken out from the backing track.

STREETS JT

PRIDE

UNTIL

CONTROL

First rough run to test out the new Korg SDD3K emulation from UAD. 

Strat > AxeFx2 (amp sim) > SDD3000 plugin > ProTools.
No other fx or post processing added (aside from some volume riding)

Streets UAD SDD3000 Plugin

Main riff from the famous song by Muse, played by me using a custom whammy arpeggiator preset i made within my Axe Fx2 unit.

Same guitar as the clip before, isolated this time.

Cant' remember the exact settings, sorry.

Muse - Map Of The Problematique (guitar only)

First test for this song with my homemade Red Special guitar replica.

Homemade RS >> Fryer Deluxe TB >> Axe Fx 2 (AC30 sims)

Queen - One Vision

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