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Hi, I have an acoustic elec, I bought a 16 watt Kustom amp. They are about 150 sheets but well worth it. It has 2 inputs so you can plug your guitar in and also a mike, keyboard or cd etc. The settings it has really do allow you to make the most of the acoustic/elec sound. I love it and it also works very well with an elec guitar, esp if you're into the clean reverb coldpaly sound.

Hi, I have an acoustic elec, I bought a 16 watt Kustom amp. They are about 150 sheets but well worth it. It has 2 inputs so you can plug your guitar in and also a mike, keyboard or cd etc. The settings it has really do allow you to make the most of the acoustic/elec sound. I love it and it also works very well with an elec guitar, esp if you're into the clean reverb coldpaly sound.

Hi people! Quick question about Shiver/Don't Panic ... Does Johnny use delay at all in these songs? I know he has a Boss DD-3 hooked up in his pedalboard. I have seen some people playing the phaser lead parts in Don't Panic but never found out how this worked for them. I know the temp beats per minute for the song is about 120bpm (i.e 2 beats per second) but if anyone is entering in a specific delay in milliseconds that works for them I'd like to know how this works for you. I use delay on the riff in Yellow and it sounds tasty! I enter 85 bpm into the metronome, tap the delay tempo to it and away I go, it's worth a try, it really helps with the intro and with the chorus lead bits. Thanks!

I have seen some of the cheapest Les Paul copies on youtube (one of which does a good cover of Shiver) and to be honest, I don't think the pick-ups are all that bad at all in the copies, even in the numerous Strat copies, I know a guy that gigs with an Encore copy of a strat and he gets a great sound out of it. What I look for, and I'm big into getting a good sound, is an amp with wide speaker, 12" if possible, and I have also used a Kustom acoustic amp with a celestion 8" speaker with reverb for practising - great clear sparkly tone, great for U2 and Coldplay. I feel that if a guitar can sound good clean, that it will sound good over-driven. Small amps and practice amp that you get in guitar starter packages usually have poor overdrive sound so in that case it wouldn't be the guitar's fault.

BF-2 = Boss Flanger 2 (2nd series). There's now a BF-3, I have one, it's not unlike the MXR Phase 90 he uses, for example, I use it to get that phased sound in 'Don't Panic'. Could anyone tell me what songs does johnny use the BF-2 Boss Flanger in? Thanks.

I have a Tele, it had Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickups in it when I got it first, I didn't like these, they had too much Mid and too much of a low muddy sound so I changed them for the original American stock pickups that were luckily supplied too. Only things is, as much as I love my tele, it has a maple neck and is very bright sounding which is great for playing reggae but for the start of 'Yellow', for example, you need a fairly chunky and full sounding pickup, I find even the tele's neck pickup is too 'thinny' and twangy sounding. Tele's are making a come back, just look at music video's of songs and you'll see. They are in Fashion!!

Shiver!

Dia Dhaoibh a Chairde! Hi! DMcU here, Bit of a coldplay fan you could say. I'm also a U2 fan and I have a few Electric Guitars so this kind of style of playing is something I like. I love delay, reverb, fenders, valve amps, compressors, TELE'S and the music that Johnny gets from his rig. I recently bought a Flanger (Boss Bf-3) so if any of you could help me with settings that I could use for 'Don't Panic', I know he used an MXR Phase 90 but I might get by with this! Also any delay settings would be great, like delay time in milliseconds (I have a Boss DD7). ROck on amigo's!

To make it aggressive I use a compressor (Boss CS-3) and 'squish' the signal. This means I can actually turn the Gain down on the Drive Channel to about 1 or below even. This creates a lot of humming noise though, it really 'drives' the amp. I would have the Effect Level anything from 3/4 to Full, but it tidies up the sound. Better to have a slightly cleaner sound than an over-overdriven sound. Any tips on using a Flanger for the Lead Parts in 'Don't Panic'. I know Johnny used a MXR Phaser 90. I have a Boss BF-3 and I can kinda get something simillar of a sound. Any tips for settings would be great - i.e. 'Rate' 'Depth' etc. Thanks

Hi! Would you know roughly what milliseconds of delay is needed for Yellow? I have a Boss DD7 and I can use the tap tempo but if I had the delay time in millseconds (roughly) I could set that too, and then we would be playing! Thanks