Where the Streets Have No Name (Riff · Clean) — Guitar Tone
by U2 · riff
The Where the Streets Have No Name by U2 guitar tone is built on a Vox AC30, dialed in at gain 2.5/10, bass 4.5, mid 5.5, treble 7, presence 6 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.
bright chiming clean (delay-defined) distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Where the Streets Have No Name sound.
What makes the Where the Streets Have No Name part tricky
dotted-eighth delay timing, picking in time with delay, clean. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.
Note: Where the Streets Have No Name IS the delay — a bright Strat into a Vox AC30 with a DOTTED-EIGHTH delay (short slap into a long modulated repeat). Set the delay to a dotted-eighth of the tempo; play simple notes and let the delay build the cascading arpeggio. Clean, low gain., Dial a dotted-eighth delay (≈3/16) with one-or-few repeats, bright clean AC30-style tone, and pick simple notes in time with the repeats. The delay is the part., Settings are community-researched starting points, not official recall sheets.