U2 – How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb

Music Radar interviews Edge's guitar tech Dallas Schoo in this article, and details his touring rig for 2009's "360° Tour." It lists the Bufferooster among his effects.

In this article, Music Radar interviews Edge's guitar tech Dallas Schoo and details his touring rig for 2009's "360° Tour." It lists the FA-1 among his effects.

Mentioned in this April/May 2007 Australian Guitar interview with The Edge's guitar tech, Dallas Schoo, on page 28 of the issue. It was used for "New York" (as stated in this January 2001 Guitar Player interview) and live for the solo on "Until the End of the World" on the Elevation Tour (as seen in AudioFile's feature "U2 - Wired for Sound"), the Vertigo Tour (as is visible in this Guitar World feature at 2:07) and the U2 360° Tour (as is visible in this still of a live performance).

Guitar Player, January 2001, "Basic Instincts"

GP: What were your main fuzzboxes?

Edge: The Ampeg, a Tube Screamer for a good general distortion without being too in-your-face, and an old Manny's Fuzz--which is really extreme. I also used this really obscure Japanese pedal called the Sobart [sic] for the heavy sections of "New York." That pedal is so extreme. You step on it and all hell breaks loose. On "When I Look at the World", I'm using an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer for that mad distorted tone.

Australian Guitar, April/May 2007

And the Sobbat Drive Breaker with that big thumping bass distortion, where does that get used?

The Edge walked in with that. It's a Japanese device. Edge, once in a while, would want a distortion twist, you know, and he will walk in with things and I get to walk in with things. But if you walk in with things [something] and Bono hears [it, he] goes "Oh my God, roll the tape!". And that's what happened. We used that on the solo on "Until The End Of The World". It's such an offensive little box that only works on a solo at the very end - it doesn't work all through a song.

AudioFile, "U2 - Wired for Sound

[tapping the DB-1] This came outta nowhere, this Japanese distortion thing.

Sobbat Owner's List / Artists page

ご存知U2のギタリスト。色々な雑誌等で語られておりますが、例のグラミーアルバムの中の 「NEW　YORK」という曲で中間部分にDB-1を使用していただいているとのこと。強力ですね！この曲は！最近知りましたが、 ブライアン・イーノ氏よりエフェクター入手との情報が入りました。（*未確認です）

Music Radar interviews Edge's guitar tech Dallas Schoo in this article, and details his touring rig for 2009's "360° Tour." It lists the PCM-70 among his effects.

Music Radar interviews Edge's guitar tech Dallas Schoo in this article, and details his touring rig for 2009's "360° Tour." It lists the 15/80S (also known as the SDMX) among his effects.

As stated by producer Declan Gaffney, the VEQ4 was used for "Get On Your Boots".

Declan Gaffney incorporated extensive master processing into his mix. Dynamic control was provided by the Waves SSL Master Bus Compressor and Massey L2007 limiter, while Waves' VEQ4 added tonal changes.

An image of the settings can be found here.

Used as overheads on "Get On Your Boots", as stated by producer Declan Gaffney.

"Most of 'Get On Your Boots' was recorded in Dublin by Richard Rainey, and the basic backing tracks were done live, by the whole band together. There was an [Electro-Voice] RE20 inside the bass drum, with an SE Electronics Titan on the outside, a [Shure] 57 underneath the snare, and Richard had his own Heil mic on top, which he alternated with a Beyer M201; the toms were [Sennheiser] 421, overheads Coles 4038; ride cymbal was sometimes a 57, sometimes a [AKG] 451. Everything went through the Neve 1091 or 1093 mic pres."

Adam used the Moog Taurus II on the Joshua Tree (Streets, Exit) and earlier tours (Bad). It appears he was the recipient of one of the 1000 limited edition remakes of the Moog Taurus III and will be using them on the upcoming Joshua Tree Tour in 2017.