Where the Streets Have No Name · U2Where the Streets Have No Name
Tone for HOTONE Pulze Mini · by @faldy · Single coils · updated 11 October 2026 · Made with AI
The definitive The Edge chiming rhythm tone, featuring an edge-of-breakup Vox AC30 Top Boost driven by subtle compression, a rhythmic dotted-eighth digital delay, and airy hall reverb.
Plays it on your Pulze Mini without changing your saved presets.
On your Pulze Mini
Where the Streets Have No Name
by @faldy · Made with AI
Plays it on your Pulze Mini without changing your saved presets.
Every settingTuning: E standard
More tonesDifferent guitar or tuning? Make your own version (1–2 minutes)On the Pulze Mini
Every block in the order the signal goes through it. Dial these in by hand, or play it on your Pulze Mini above to send them all at once.
Comp 1
Based on Ross™ Compressor
- Sustain
- 28
- Volume
- 52
Boost 1
OffBased on MXR® Micro Amp
Voxy 30HW TB
Based on VOX® AC30HW
- Volume
- 36
- Tone Cut
- 45
- Master
- 55
- Bass
- 46
- Treble
- 58
- Char
- Cool
Voxy 2x12
Based on Vox® AC30 2x12" cabinet
- Volume
- 50
- Low Cut
- 80
- High Cut
- Off
Guitar EQ 1
OffDigi Dly
- Mix
- 38
- Time/Div
- 1/8D
- FB
- +26
- Time R%
- 61.8%
- Spread
- +100
- Level
- 50
- Sync
- On
Hall
- Mix
- 20
- Pre Dly
- 40 ms
- Decay
- 50
- Low Damp
- 50
- Hi Damp
- 50
- Mod
- 50
How it works
- AMPThe Voxy 30HW TB paired with the Voxy 2x12 cab nails the bright, jangling chime of The Edge's iconic vintage AC30 setup.
- DYNComp 1 evens out the percussive 16th-note pick attack, keeping each strike at a consistent volume before hitting the delay line.
- FX1Digi Dly is locked to the song tempo with a dotted-eighth division (1/8D) and moderate feedback, generating the galloping rhythmic counter-melody when played against straight eighth notes.
- ToneYour Strat-style guitar's Middle + Bridge pickup notch replicates the exact 'quacky' glassy texture heard on the album.
Tuning
The record is in E standard, low to high: E A D G B E.
Tune your guitar the same way. Or make your version above, say how yours is tuned, and your Pulze Mini shifts it to match.
On the guitar
Made for a single-coil guitar (Strat style).
- 1Pickup Middle + Bridge
- 2Volume 10
- 3Tone 9
Use the in-between middle and bridge setting to get that hollow, glassy Strat jangle with the tone knob open.
The original rig
The Edge's iconic sound is built on a Stratocaster played with a dimpled Herdim pick into a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay set to dotted-eighth repeats, driving a Vox AC30 to the edge of breakup. The combination of percussive attack, delay preamp saturation, and modulated echo produces the continuous, chiming rhythmic pattern.
The Edge (Rhythm and solo): 1970s Fender Stratocaster, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, Korg SDD-3000 Digital Delay, Vox AC30 Top Boost, Vox AC30 2x12 open-back cabinet
See the full original rig, with every setting and its sourcesPlaying it
- Pick steady, straight eighth notes with light palm muting on the lower strings; the dotted-eighth delay fills the gaps to create the driving 16th-note bounce.
- Use a stiff, nylon or dimpled pick held firmly to get a bright, percussive chime on each strike.
- Do not overplay: let the delay do half the work by locking your picking cleanly to a click or drum track at 126 BPM.
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Shared by @faldy under CC BY 4.0: use it, share it and change it, crediting @faldy. Version 1, updated 11 October 2026.