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Funk rock

John Frusciante

Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1991 to 2006

A board organised around a wah with an unusually wide sweep and a chorus with a genuinely strange voicing. The clean parts are as effected as the loud ones, which is why the quiet sections never sound thin.

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Shown in conventional signal order rather than the order the sources list them, so it reads the way it would be wired: guitar on the left, amp on the right.

  1. 1
    Wah / filterNo photo available

    Ibanez WH10 Wah

    Wah / filter

    A plastic-chassis wah with a much wider sweep than a Cry Baby, and the sound of the funk solos.

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    Drive / fuzzNo photo available

    Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

    Drive / fuzz

    The aggressive mode for the loud choruses.

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  3. 3
    Drive / fuzzNo photo available

    Electro-Harmonix Big Muff

    Drive / fuzz

    Thicker, more sustaining gain where the DS-2 would be too sharp.

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    ModulationNo photo available

    Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble

    Modulation

    The wide, slightly detuned cleans on the verses, and a large part of why they sit so far back in the mix.

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Documented on

  • Blood Sugar Sex Magik

    album · 1991

    • Give It Away
    • Under the Bridge
    • Suck My Kiss

  • Californication

    album · 1999

    • Scar Tissue
    • Around the World
    • Californication

  • By the Way

    album · 2002

    • By the Way
    • Can't Stop

Editorial gear history, assembled from interviews, rig rundowns, live photography and liner notes. John Frusciante is not affiliated with Gear Avail and nothing here is an endorsement. Rigs change between tours and between takes, so this one is scoped to 1991 to 2006 rather than presented as a career-long setup. In most cases what is documented is that a pedal was on the board during those sessions or that tour, not that it is audible on a specific bar of a specific take.