All pedalboards

Pedalboard / 053

The Edge

The Edge's 2018 system joined an onstage Whammy and remote wah to a Bradshaw-controlled rack containing parallel digital processors, legacy song-specific units and multiple independently set overdrives.

Board
eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE programmable rack
Context
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Touring-period rig
Routing
Switchable effects loops
Audited
Signal
22 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE programmable rack

Tech-opened inventory - preset routing

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Switchable effects loops

Longtime tech Dallas Schoo opens and identifies the 2018 rack for Premier Guitar. His independent 2009 MusicRadar interview corroborates the continuing use of the WH-1, remote wah, Korg SDD delay, custom DM4, POD Pro, FA-1, Synth Wah and Drive Breaker families. The rack is a programmable network rather than a permanent serial chain; the displayed order groups pitch/filter, processors, dynamics, drives and specialty effects without claiming a universal preset route. Three Axe-Fx II XL units and three SD-1 pedals are shown as separate placements. Controllers, expression-only pedals, volume pedals, tuners, power supplies, mixers, splitters and interfaces are omitted.

Cited sources

  1. Premier GuitarRig Rundown: U2's The Edge
  2. MusicRadarClassic U2 interview: The Edge's rig with tech Dallas Schoo