Chino Moreno's Gear

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"When it comes to microphones, Deftones use all Shure products. Olech is working with Shure Beta 58 for the vocals, which is lead singer Chino Moreno’s favourite mic." - via Total Production International magazine

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Green Matamp Head is clearly seen being played here by Chino through entire video.

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In this video from the 2013 Long Beach Guitar Center Expo, Chino Moreno can be seen using a Gibson SG Standard electric guitar.

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In a live performance of "Change" on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2000, Chino Moreno of Deftones is seen playing the ESP LTD Viper 301. This Korean-made solid body electric guitar features 24 jumbo frets, abalone flag inlays, a mahogany body with a transparent dark cherry finish, passive electronics, and two EMG-HZ passive humbuckers.

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“The chorus pedal is rare. My buddy Aaron gave it to me, and out of all the chorus pedals I’ve tried, this one’s the most soothing and has the loveliest sound.

“It’s straight-up 80s, like Cocteau Twins and all that stuff. I’ve done a lot of research on what all those bands used, like Robert Smith used to get that out of his Roland Jazz Chorus amp, mostly. This just has four buttons on it, and is very hard to find and pricey. I take it everywhere I go and I only have one of them, so really I need to get another!”

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Here you can See Chino with his pedalboard. A MXR phaser can be see toward the bottom right of the board. Confirmation of this being the 45 specifically can be found in this image.

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Orange Dual Terror (top) and Thunderverb 50 electric guitar amplifiers used by Chino Moreno of American alternative metal band Deftones photographed during a shoot for Total Guitar Magazine, February 18, 2013

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Chino Moreno is noted to have used the MXR M169 Carbon Copy delay pedal during the Deftones' Diamond Eyes Tour in 2010, as detailed on the A2aThoT Official Website.

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Chino is seen using a Knaggs Keya T2 onstage with Deftones in this picture.

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Chino Moreno used the Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive during the Deftones' Diamond Eyes Tour in 2010, as detailed on A2aThoT's official website.

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Chino is seen using a black HSS Fender Strat in this 2010 performance of "Beauty School".

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he plays an esp sunburst tele in this live performance

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The author of this article interview of Deftness says, "If Moreno wanted to use a hand-held mike, Raskulinecz and his engineer Paul Fig assembled a U87 with one of those old radio-broadcast windscreens on it, with a lot of duct tape and a large piece of foam around it."

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"... a music stand with some of my lyrics on it, some candles burning, and instead of using a hand-held microphone like I usually use, I was using a really nice microphone. I just stodd there and let loose. It was something I'd never done. I think that's how singers usually record, but on the first record I recorded everything live with the band in the room, with a little Shure 58 microphone." - via an archived Circus magazine article from 1998. Unfortunately, the original PDF is not available. Other sources are welcome.

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Orange Dual Terror (top) and Thunderverb 50 electric guitar amplifiers used by Chino Moreno of American alternative metal band Deftones photographed during a shoot for Total Guitar Magazine, February 18, 2013

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he's seen playing this guitar live, 0:42 gives a clear view of the guitar

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DEFTONES' Chino Moreno using a Fender Stratocaster in "Hole In The Earth" music video

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Listed on Chino's official Yamaha artist page.

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In this image you can see a Mini Chorus to the left of the phaser pedal. A close up shot of this board can be seen here.

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Drew Foppe, Chino's guitar tech: "...Using the 50 watt Tre Reverb and the 100 Watt backup..."

For a 2015 tour, playing songs from Koi no Yokan but not Gore. Also Using a Rivera 2x12 cab with vintage 30's and a Rivera Rock crusher

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This picture from July 2016, taken by Drew Foppe, Chino's technician, shows the modifications of Chino's sunburst SG Special.

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A Telefunken 251 was used to record Chino Moreno's vocals during the "Diamond Eyes" recording sessions, as stated in this interview. The interview reads, "most of the ambience comes from Chino Moreno’s vocals, the clarity of which was ensured with a Telefunken tube 251."

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In this 2016 video of "Beauty School", Chino is seen using a Yamaha Revstar.

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seen in this live performance, such as at 1:18

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In this 2016 performance of "Swerve City", Chino is seen using a White Gibson SG Special.

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This photograph of Chino's 2016 rack, shows that he is using the Rivera RockCrusher with two Orange Dual Terrors.

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This article by Orange Amplification reads, "Chino Moreno uses a Thunderverb 50 paired with a PPC412…"

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Chino Moreno uses the Electro-Harmonix Memory Toy delay pedal, as featured on his pedalboard in MusicRadar's "In Pictures: 68 Pro Guitarists' Pedalboards."

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Chino uses a Seymour Duncan '59 bridge pickup in one of his guitars according to his page on the official Seymour Duncan website.

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In this 2010 picture from Premier Guitar, an Ernie Ball 6181 Vp Jr is seen at the far left of his Pedalboard.

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Album Credits

  • Vices

    Vices

    Dead Poetic · 2006

    Producer

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