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[surfsunadam]

#1 - I think he only uses 2 out of the 3 amp stacks at any one time (though I may be wrong).

His guitar tone goes through the wireless transmitter on his guitar strap- recieved by the wireless pickup - through all the pedals - then basically to a box with three leads coming out, one to each amp. I think he has a footswitch to select which amps the signal goes to. The microphones in front of the amps are for the Front of House (FOH) speakers.

As regards to #3 of your questions, those things are just lights so he can see his pedals when it's dark!

[Libero Marconi]

thanks, I would never guess that those are lights (but it's now so obvious to me...)

question #2 was based on several WAHs on John's pedalboard (I think those are WAH pedals), so I don't know if those are for each guitar, or some are for clean and some for distorted sound, or, maybe, those are not even WAH pedals


P.S. @ Amyb:
could you specify each pedal in your post so that we all know in which song and what part of it is the pedal used... That is if you have those infomations.
@ snork:
"The order in which the pedals are connected contributes greatly to the sound..."
-Is this true? I didn't know that, I thought that no matter how you connect pedals you always get the same sound...

[Rafael]

I think you mean the Moog Expressions Pedals
and the Boss FV-50 Volumepedal and stuff like this.
That aren't wahs


And yes it's true that the order is important for the sound.

[paulo_crunch]

that digitech it's a PDS 1002 or a 8000?

[surfsunadam]

The order doesn't effect the sound if all the pedals are off, or only one is on.

But with more than two pedals, say you had a wah and distortion. If you put the distortion first, it creates all kinds of high frequency harmonics to the waveform, so the wah will work good, because there are plenty of high freqencys to cut out. But if you put the wah first, the effect of the wah will sort of be covered up by all the harmonics added by the distortion later in the chain.. so it will be a different sound, probably less effective.

With his pedal board, it may not be just a single chain... It could go (a, b, c etc are pedals)

__________ b - c - d
_________/________ \
guitar --- a__________Line selector --- amps
_________\_________/
__________ e - f - g

[Iva]

Welcome, snork; welcome paulo_crunch

And this is starting to get too complicated; yet I'd like to list it all properly.

I was thinking of doing it like this: listing all the instruments and things that err...go along with them by type, then each of them separately and also make a separate listing for setups during tours and recording albums...and each item on those listings would lead to the page about the instrument/add-on once again.

How does that sound to everyone?

[paulo_crunch]

what it would be very cool, was if we make some topics differentiating the differents eras.... like, a topic with californication era, where we talk about johns pedals at that era, and that stuff, then a blood sugar sex magik era, and a john frusciante solo project and ataxia era.....
in a way that it would be organized.....

PS: sorry for my bad english

[Iva]

That is actually what I said. One listing by era, one by type of the instrument/other equipment.

[Libero Marconi]

I think that it's pretty hard to do... It is doable, but I don't know if anybody here knows the pedalboard from BSSM or else... It would be so cool and organised if we could make all the separated eras...

There is more than just guitars and pedals in JOHN'S GEAR... guitar straps, wireless transmitters, cables (these are important, too), details of guitars (hard to do 'cause they're all kind of second-hand guitars , and so old), settings on "Marshall heads", etc...

P.S. It would be great if we all knew things about his gutars like: ... neck, ... body finish, ... tremollo, ... pickups, ... (things you use to tune up your strings on guitar... I don't know how to say it in english...), etc...

[Libero Marconi]

Rafael, on Dec 8 2007, 12:56 PM, said:

I think you mean the Moog Expressions Pedals
and the Boss FV-50 Volumepedal and stuff like this.
That aren't wahs


And yes it's true that the order is important for the sound.

well, I don't know, those pedals sure do look like WAH...

If the order is important for the sound, are there any diagrams or how-it-should-be-connected stuff, or the-best-way-to-connect-pedals-on-pedalboard... (you know what I want to say...) It would help me a lot, 'cause I'm getting some pedals soon!

[paulo_crunch]

young John Frusciante, on Dec 9 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

Rafael, on Dec 8 2007, 12:56 PM, said:

I think you mean the Moog Expressions Pedals
and the Boss FV-50 Volumepedal and stuff like this.
That aren't wahs


And yes it's true that the order is important for the sound.

well, I don't know, those pedals sure do look like WAH...

If the order is important for the sound, are there any diagrams or how-it-should-be-connected stuff, or the-best-way-to-connect-pedals-on-pedalboard... (you know what I want to say...) It would help me a lot, 'cause I'm getting some pedals soon!

i thnik john uses amp - modulation pedals - wah wah - distortion pedals - guitar
but jimi hendrix is amp - modulation pedals - distorion . wah wah - guitar

[Martin]

I prefer amp-distortion-wah wah-guitar, like indeed Jimi did. I've used this set up for a couple of years now and I think it sounds best for what I play. But there isn't really a 'how-it-should-be' way to do it, it's all about what you think sounds best...

[Iva]

...and that's how it goes in other types of art as well: otherwise all paintings would be realistic, all poems would rhyme and all stories would be having a happy ending.

[Libero Marconi]

paulo_crunch, on Dec 9 2007, 05:27 PM, said:

i thnik john uses amp - modulation pedals - wah wah - distortion pedals - guitar
but jimi hendrix is amp - modulation pedals - distorion . wah wah - guitar

What is a MODULATION PEDAL ...?

[paulo_crunch]

young John Frusciante, on Dec 10 2007, 03:43 PM, said:

paulo_crunch, on Dec 9 2007, 05:27 PM, said:

i thnik john uses amp - modulation pedals - wah wah - distortion pedals - guitar
but jimi hendrix is amp - modulation pedals - distorion . wah wah - guitar

What is a MODULATION PEDAL ...?

chorus, flanger,..........that kind of effetcs

[Martin]

Was this one already mentioned?

Frusciante's fretless

[Libero Marconi]

Martin, on Dec 11 2007, 12:39 PM, said:

Was this one already mentioned?

Frusciante's fretless

...? I don't understand how this is linked to John Frusciante??? Where is JF in this??? If I'm wrong, please explain it to me...

[beejaysus]

I saw that fretless video a year or so ago.

The gist of it is the guy takes old guitars and takes out the frets and puts a shiny flat new fingerboard on it. Made of glass.
The clip when I saw it first implied that John had ordered one, though I don't think he's ever mentioned using it in interviews.

Lou Reed played a fretless guitar on the first Velvet Underground album, so I see why John would be into it.

[Martin]

young John Frusciante, on Dec 11 2007, 01:52 PM, said:

Martin, on Dec 11 2007, 12:39 PM, said:

Was this one already mentioned?

Frusciante's fretless

...? I don't understand how this is linked to John Frusciante??? Where is JF in this??? If I'm wrong, please explain it to me...

Well, we're talking about his gear right! And supossedly this is one of his guitars specially modified into a fretless...

[Libero Marconi]

well, yeah... but I didn't see any of JF's guitars on that video... and if the fretless Fender is John's, then I'm not informed about JF having a fretless guitar...