Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1999 album There Is Nothing Left To Lose.
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Artists on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Gear Used On There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Amplifiers used by Dave Grohl on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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When asked what was the fundamental guitar-sound recipe for the album, There's Nothing Left to Lose, musician Dave Grohl answered: "We focused on not using too many distortion pedals, and went for a cleaner, fatter, more natural overdrive. We used a Vox AC30 for pretty much everything on the record, tweaking the sound so that it broke up nicely when played loud.... We wanted to move back to that huge, warm, sludgy sound and get something a little more garagey -- not something so well-produced and pristine. So rather than play through a distortion pedal and an amp with its volume at 5, we wouldn't use a pedal at all." After being asked if there is any trick to recording natural guitar sounds Dave Grohl explained, "The best way to get a natural guitar sound is to eliminate all pedals and find an amp that has a lot of range. With an AC30, for example, you can go clean, dirty, bright, or fat. It's just the amplifier and the guitar -- the most basic combination." Dave Grohl uses the Vox AC30 amp head in a 2x12 combo.
Fender 'Wide Panel Tweed' Twin 5C8 (1953-1954)
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"In addition, Grohl -- who played all the guitar parts on Nothing Left -- abandoned ..... Amps: Vox AC30, Mesa/Boogie Maverick and Heartbreaker, Fender Twin."
Mesa/Boogie Maverick 2x12 Combo
Avg price: $1,024.00
In “The Making Of There Is Nothing Left To Lose” video, the Mesa Boogie Rectifier Maverick can be seen at the 4:10 mark. At this point, Dave Grohl was the only guitarist in the Foo Fighters, so the amp has to be his.
Effects Pedals used by Dave Grohl on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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Used with Foo Fighters "around the time of the second album", as stated by guitar tech Earnie Bailey in this August 21, 2017 Effects Bay interview.
What was the typical set up for Dave in those days?
A ProCo Turbo Rat into a 100 watt Marshall JCM800, a black Gibson Explorer, an 80’s tobacco Sunburst Les Paul Standard and a white Les Paul Custom is the earliest setup I can recall. A Boss DM-2 delay and MXR Micro Amp were added around the time of the second album.
Univibe & Rotary Effects Pedals
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Used on There Is Nothing Left to Lose, as stated by Grohl in this 1999 Guitar One interview.
Can you talk a bit about some of the gear you used on this new record?
Most of the record was done with a Vox AC-30, with effects pedals like a Uni-Vibe or a Memory Man, or old BOSS delay pedals, Rat distortion pedals, Electro-Harmonix pedals, or Octave Fuzzes. I used a Talk Box on "Generator." Guitar-wise, I used my Gibson Trini Lopez, a Fender Telecaster, a Gretsch Duo-Jet, some Les Pauls, Explorers, and RD Artists. We used a Fender twin and a Marshall JCM 900 for some stuff. We also used a MESA/Boogie Maverick--it's a little head. But we tried to stay away from the MESA/Boogie Dual or Triple Rectifier sound because we did that on the last record a lot.
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On this screenshot from the live at [V], October 4th 1999, we can see a big black box with 3 knobs in the middle like an original The Rat. Dave said in an interview from 1999 that they used an old ProCo Rat for recording the distorted parts of the guitars. I think that’s the Rat (the ‘The Rat’) that they used on the TINLTL recording and that Dave get it on his board for the Australian Tour.
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Dave is using the talkbox during the song Generator by the Foo Fighters. Here you can see him doing it during a show in 'De Melkweg' in Amsterdam from 02:25.
Guitars used by Dave Grohl on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars
Gibson Trini Lopez Standard Custom Reissue Electric Guitar
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"This guitar, I've made every single Foo Fighters record with it. This one. This is a fucking beautiful guitar. I saw this in a guitar shop in Bethesda, Maryland. I think it was 1992 or '93 or something like that, I was still in Nirvana when I bought it. I thought it was unusual because it looks like a Gibson ES 335 except that it has diamond-shaped F-holes and has this different headstock on it. And I didn't really know anything about Trini Lopez the artist when I bought it. But this fucking thing, this is the sound of the Foo Fighters - this guitar. On every record I might use other guitars every now and then, but for the most part it's just this," says guitarist Dave Grohl about his Gibson Trini Lopez Standard Reissue Electric Guitar.
Music Accessories used by Dave Grohl on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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Dave Grohl is seen (and is credited) as using an EBow on the sonic highways track “subterranean”. He also uses an EBow on numerous foo fighters songs, like “My Hero”, and “Gimme Stitches”
Nate Mendel
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Amplifiers used by Nate Mendel on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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In a December 1999 EQ magazine issue, the engineer for There Is Nothing Left To Use, Adam Kasper, says Nate’s P-Bass was recorded through the Ampeg B15.
Drum Sets used by Taylor Hawkins on There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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In an interview with Guitar Center, Taylor Hawkins' Foo Fighters kit is discussed:
"Today, Hawkins plays a Gretsch USA Custom set with the Foo Fighters. For some recordings, he uses vintage Gretsch kits, but his USA Custom configuration, which has seen plenty of action both live and in the studio, consists of a 16x24" kick drum, a brass black-lacquered 6.5x14 snare, rack toms measuring 5x8, 6.5x10 and 11x13, two floor toms (14x16 and 16x18) and a Remo 14" Rototom above and between the two floor toms."
