Chris Shiflett

These are his strings for standard tuning.

In a video by Michael Weinbaum titled "Foo Fighters - All My Life @ Nola Jazz Festival 5-3-2024," Chris Shiflett is seen playing a B.C. Rich Mockingbird - Koa guitar. This is also confirmed on his podcast "Shred with Shifty."

In the official music video for "Breakout" by Foo Fighters, towards the end, Chris Shiflett can be seen playing a Gibson SG. Although the guitar is not shown in full detail, its bright red color and double cutaway design are clearly visible.

In this photo, you can see that Chris Shiflett is using the Jim Dunlop Solid Strap D3809 Black.

Chris explains how he called dave freedman who put together his rig and how he utilizes the switcher to eliminate tap dancing.

Chris Shiflett is confirmed to use Dunlop Tortex Standard 1.0mm Guitar Picks, as evidenced by a photograph where measurements taken with a digital caliper indicate the pick's thickness. This particular pick was used during either the Medicine At Midnight Tour or the But Here We Are Tour. The image provided as proof can be seen here.

In the comments section of the post titled "Chris Shifty Knows" that D'Addario shared on their official Instagram account, it is mentioned that Chris Shiflett uses D'Addario EXL115 Nickelwound Guitar Strings 11-49.

Chris Shiflett, guitarist for Foo Fighters, has confirmed the use of the Neural DSP Quad Cortex for all the electric guitars on his latest EP. In an interview with Guitar World, Shiflett stated, "I used a Quad Cortex for all the electric guitars. We recorded everything pretty quick. Truth be told, I didn’t have a lot of time and didn’t want to grab all my old amps and set them up. So I just brought the Quad Cortex, baby. It really did the job… I think it sounds very close to vintage amps. If I hadn’t told you that, you probably wouldn’t have guessed, right?" He further explained the practical advantage of using digital modelers like the Quad Cortex, saying, "I know some guitar players purposefully use things like Fractals on their records because then they have the exact same tones for the live shows. That’s what I was thinking. I’ll record with this thing and then I’ve got those sounds on my little device wherever I go on tour." This information was reported by Janelle Borg for Guitar World.

Chris Shiflett is confirmed to use the Dunlop Tortex Standard 0.73mm guitar pick, as determined by measuring it with a digital caliper, as shown in the provided image.

In this video "Exploring the Chris Shiflett Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe | Artist Signature Series | Fender" Chris discusses his signature Cleaver guitar from Fender and says:

Hey, I'm Chris Shiflett, and I'm out here hanging out at Fender today, and I'm very excited to talk about my new signature model, the American-made Cleaver. It's such an amazing thing to have your name on a Fender. You know, this logo means a lot to guitar players. That's like, you know, one of the big two. Really, it's always a source of pride. And to have gone through a few different versions of my signature models over the years has been a lot of fun. You know, I've learned a lot, but this thing is really special. It's it's uh, it's I think it's going to sit really nicely uh with the other two. This one kind of sits neatly between the two of them. It feels like a like a nod to certain aspects of the past, but it's kind of new at the same time.

The first Fender I ever played was my brother Mike's Strat. The original version of my signature model was based on I had gotten a um, I think it's a 72, you know, with the wide-range pickups in it, and I loved it. And I used it a lot for my solo stuff 'cause it had just a nice jangle to it, but it wasn't quite gritty enough for for what we do in Foo Fighters. So the original version we put uh humbuckers into it, and then that was great, and that's for that big, you know, rock sound that that we that we have. But somewhere along the line, I started using uh some guitars with P90s, and I just fell in love with the P90s. And they nailed it on the pickups, man. The pickups are great. Really sound good. The P90s just kind of sit in a perfect spot to cover a lot of ground for for what I do in Foos. If you think about our guitar tones, Pat tends to be pretty heavy, you know, saturated overdrive. Dave's a a little, you know, he's still pretty gritty, but maybe a step down from that. And then I love the P90 'cause it just kind of sits in a different place for for what we do. So there's kind of a range of sound, and it works with with sort of what my role in the band is.

As far as the colors, the pickguard is technically mint. It reads white. This red, this was 100% inspired by my love of Arsenal Football Club. That was kind of the inspiration of this, and it's just a classic 60s color. The charcoal, we looked at a few different colors um, and uh, and made some prototypes, and, and the the charcoal just jumped out at me. I just think it's a cool color. I you don't see too many of them around, and it just it just looks nice. It's you know, you don't know until you see it all, you know, all built and put together how it's going to read um, and the charcoal was just it seemed like a good uh, a good balance to the red.

The name Cleaver came from um exactly that actually. So you need something that's going to cut through and have its own kind of little sonic space. So yeah, just that was it. Hacked through like a Cleaver.

So some of my favorite features on this thing, well, first off, one of the key differences is we painted the headstock, so which gives it I don't know, it just gives it kind of a a little 60s pizzazz, which I like. We have the rosewood fretboard. We got the block inlays, so that's a little bit different than the production model. And these pickups are noiseless P90s, which you know, anybody that plays P90s knows that they can be a little noisy on stage sometimes, but not these. They're great. And we put 500k pots in in in here as well, so you have a nice taper. Noways, you know, I have all my channel changing and everything, but when I was growing up, everything was in the hands. I never had an amp that had multiple channels or anything. So if you needed to clean up, you just got to roll off the volume a little bit. And that's what I love about these pots. You get a nice slow easy taper on them.

The finish on the neck was was a was a big thing that we worked on 'cause it uh as far as you know, the sort of the color and the aesthetic, but also the feel. A lot of guitars nowadays can be kind of gummy on the finish, and this one is is not. And we worked uh quite a bit to to find the perfect balance, you know, so it's got a nice finish on it, but you won't hang you up when you're playing live. And I like the painted headstock, and I like the way it looks with the rosewood fretboard. It just the whole thing kind of just looks nice. I'm always a sucker for block inlays, you know, yeah, all that stuff.

I think this guitar works, you know, for me for everything I do because the P90 is like you can get like a real nice twang out of it for when I'm doing more kind of Americana country rock kind of flavored stuff. And then it just grits up real nice with still with a lot of clarity for the heavy rock stuff. So just for everything that I do, this this kind of covers all the bases.

I was kind of a late bloomer as a songwriter, really. I didn't really start writing songs till I was probably in my late 20s. And I figured out kind of over the years, both with playing with songwriting, the only way for me to kind of work through moments where you're kind of in the doldrums or maybe not inspired is just to play. You know, the more I play, if I'm I probably write most of my songs sitting on the couch watching soccer highlights, you know, and just with a guitar in my hands, just noodling around, and then you kind of oh wait, what's that? So yeah, I think just the more you play, the more the more you find the ideas.

When I was a little kid taking guitar lessons at Jensen's music in Santa Barbara, the last thing I ever even dreamt of was that someday there would be a Fender hanging in a guitar store somewhere with my name on it. So it's just kind of one of those things that that wasn't even part of the dream 'cause I just never like, I just never would have considered it. So to have that be the reality now is it's wild.

At the 00:35 mark in the video titled "Chris Shiflett's Foo Fighters Pedalboard for 2024 World Tour," posted by Premier Guitar on YouTube, Chris Shiflett is shown using the Fulltone CS-WF Custom Shop WahFull pedal.

At the 00:34 mark in the video titled "Chris Shiflett's Foo Fighters Pedalboard for 2024 World Tour" by Premier Guitar, Chris Shiflett can be seen using the Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe compressor pedal.

In an Instagram post by Chris Shiflett, he showcases a mini pedalboard used for a performance, which includes the MXR CSP102SL Script Logo Dyna Comp Compressor Pedal. This information is confirmed by the post captioned "This was a fun little setup for the @blueelan party last night!" on his account, shifty71.

In this Instagram post, Chris Shiflett shows off a mini pedalboard he used on his solo tour, which includes an EHX Nano Pog.

In this Instagram post, you can clearly see an MXR Carbon Copy on Chris Shiflett’s pedalboard

In the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024," published by Premier Guitar on YouTube, it is confirmed that Chris Shiflett uses Friedman BE-100 amplifiers. At the 25-second mark, these amplifiers are visibly featured as part of his music instrument setup.

In the video "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar on YouTube, a Chamberlin The M4000D Digital Mellotron is visible at the 0:25 mark, positioned above the Friedman amplifier.

In the "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" video by Premier Guitar on YouTube, Chris Shiflett can be seen using a Shure Axient AD4Q Four-Channel Digital Wireless Receiver, as it is visible in the stack tray at the 3:31 mark.

In the Premier Guitar video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024," at the timestamp 3:31, Chris Shiflett is shown using the Radial JX42 V2 Guitar and Amp Switcher, as seen in a stack tray on stage.

At 3:34 in the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, Chris Shiflett can be seen using the RJM Music Effect Gizmo, which is visible in the stack tray.

In the "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" video by Premier Guitar on YouTube, Chris Shiflett discusses his 1983 B.C. Rich Mockingbird guitar at the 11:00 mark.

In the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, Chris Shiflett is shown with the Gibson Explorer Korina reissue guitar at the 17:34 mark.

In the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, Chris Shiflett is seen using a Vintage 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Electric Guitar at the 23:54 mark.

In the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, Chris Shiflett is shown using a Friedman Tour Pro 1530 15"x30" Pedalboard with Buffer Bay at the 26:41 mark, where it is seen alongside the RJM Mastermind GT/22 MIDI Foot Controller.

At 27:12 in the video "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, the Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Bass Compressor is visible in the stack tray. Chris Shiflett discusses this piece of equipment later in the video, confirming its use in his setup.

In the video titled "Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett Rig Rundown Guitar Gear Tour 2024" by Premier Guitar, at the 27:12 mark, an Andy Green Pedals Seaverb reverb pedal is visibly present. Chris Shiflett discusses this pedal later in the footage, confirming its use in his guitar rig.

In this image found on the BIG EAR website, Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters fame can be seen holding a BIG EAR Luck Drive pedal, 1 of 45 ever made. This limited edition guitar/bass overdrive pedal was made exclusively for the artists performing at Willie Nelson's "Luck Reunion" Festival, March 14, 2019.

According to his artist page on the official MESA/Boogie® website, guitarist Chris Shiflett uses the Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Recto Standard OS Straight Cabinet.