DSP Rig
The Edge Tone — Plugins & Amp Sims
Fender Strat or Gibson Explorer into a Vox AC30, with a TC Electronic 2290 or Korg SDD-3000 delay set to a dotted eighth note. The amp tone itself is relatively clean and chimey — all the "music" comes from the delay interacting with the tempo. A Memory Man adds warmer analog echoes on some tracks.
The Edge's signature clean tone — built around Vox voicings — can be replicated in the box using modern amp sim plugins and IR cab loaders. This page maps the full DSP signal chain: guitar sim → amp sim → FX → IR, so you can dial in that delay-driven, chiming character without physical gear.
Full DSP Chain
Est. £3,063Gibson Explorer
£2,499
HX Stomp (A30 Fawn model)
≈ Vox AC30
£549
Helix: Transistor Tape Delay
Helix: Double Tank Reverb
Helix: Cosmos Chorus
Celestion Pulse Blue IR
£15
Hybrid Option
Est. £3,063Real guitar into a DSP amp chain — best of both worlds.
Gibson Explorer
£2,499
HX Stomp (A30 Fawn model)
≈ Vox AC30
£549
Helix: Transistor Tape Delay
Helix: Double Tank Reverb
Helix: Cosmos Chorus
Celestion Pulse Blue IR
£15
Tone DNA
Gain Structure
clean
Amp References
Vox
Key FX
Delay, Reverb, Chorus
Tonal Character
delay-driven, chiming, atmospheric, textural