James "Munky" Shaffer's Amplifiers

According to Guitar Geek, James uses a Diezel VH4 amp head. This amplifier is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

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at 1:20, he mentions that in the studio he uses bogner amps

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On the Mesa Boogie website, it is stated that Shaffer uses this cabinet. This cabinet, loaded with Celestion Vintage 30s, is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

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At 1:20, he states he uses bogner amps in the studio. This amplifier is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

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In this picture, Munky is next to his Triple Rectifier and his Road King heads.

This picture is from the Mesa/Boogie website at this link: http://www.mesaboogie.com/amplifiers/electric/rectifier-series/triple-rectifier/index.html

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In the TC Electronic video titled "Munky (Korn) creates his 'The Munk 3/4 Trident' Loop for Ditto X2 Looper," James "Munky" Shaffer is seen using a Marshall MG10CD amplifier throughout the video.

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At 0:45, Shaffer talks about his Kemper Profiler. This amplifier is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

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In this Rig Rundown you can see them showing hius Rig wich features two Triple Rectifiers:

"Munky and Head each run a pair of 150-watt Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier Solo heads loud and proud. To help control stage volume, both Munky and Head isolate the cabs for their dirty Triple Rectifier offstage inside a road case, and capture the thunder with three mics: a Shure KSM27, Beta 52, and Beta 56".

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If you click on the link and click on James "Munky" Shaffer under Artist you will see the two pics from Kemper's website showing Munky using these. Munky also uses the Kemper rack unit.

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According to Premier Guitar's 2020 interview, Munky uses Celestion Vintage 30s in his Mesa Boogie 4x12 cabinets.

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Used by Munky on "Lies", "Shoots and Ladders" and "Kill You". It was also used on Mr Rogers

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Shaffer is seen with his bandmate Brian "Head" Welch next to this amplifier on an advert for it from 1999.

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At Woodstock '99, this pedal can be seen behind Munky in a rack, alongside two Mesa Boogie Rectifier heads.

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Taken from Mesa Boogie's official Twitter account.

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The Roland JC-50 amp can be seen at the 1:15 mark in this Youtube documentary.

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This is a community-built gear list for James "Munky" Shaffer.