James "Munky" Shaffer

"It's something I picked for a song a long time ago, 'Did My Time', and it, like, turns it into an AM radio sound, a lo-fi sound is what we use that for" - Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech) on the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Guitar Effects Pedal. This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

Malekko has made some really cool shit lately. They have a few pedals that I used on the new record. One of them is called the Downer. It’s a pretty crazy-sounding octave-fuzz type thing. I also have a few of their modular things because I’m getting into that old modular scene.

"We use that for mostly on clean, it's just set on a little warble sound, I really like the sound of that one." – Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech) on the Electro Harmonix Memory Boy. This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

"The first thing we go through is the XP-100, and I have a gain control on the back of that so if anybody's looking at all these pedals thinking 'You're gonna lose a lot of signal', you can get it back by just turning up the volume on the XP100." – Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech) on the DigiTech XP-100 Whammy-Wah.

This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

Our go-to’s are the XP-100 [Whammy] from DigiTech and an old Ibanez chorus pedal.

"The MicroSynth is cool. It has a really quiet output when there's nothing going on, so I think there's a gate in there, I'm not sure. We get a crunchy synth sound out of that one, it sounds really cool." – Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech) on the Electro-Harmonix MicroSynth XO Guitar Effects Pedal. This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

On this artist page for James Shaffer of Korn from the TC Electronics website, displays some of his guitar pedals, including a TC Electronic Corona Chorus TonePrint Series Guitar Effects Pedal.

At 9:55 in this Rig Rundown for James Shaffer of Korn, his gear is shown, displaying a Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb Effects Pedal. This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

On this artist page for James Shaffer of Korn from the TC Electronics website, displays some of his guitar pedals, including a TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion.

On this artist page for James Shaffer of Korn from the TC Electronics website, displays some of his guitar pedals, including a TC Electronic Flashback Delay TonePrint Series Guitar Effects Pedal.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used an Ibanez Tone-Lok LF7 Lo-Fi Filter pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

on the tc electronic website, it states munky uses this pedal

at 0:30, the korg tuner is present

"We go to the Phase 90... it's set on a slow setting for whatever Munky wants to fade that in and out on, not really specific to any song in particular." – Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech, from this video: http://bit.ly/ZkUTOi). This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

"The DD-3 we use for a long delay, for the song 'Dead Bodies [Everywhere]' and we use that with the talk box, so he gets a long droning sound, almost like a didgeridoo sound with that, and the thing about the DD-3 is that, when you disengage it it stops the delay immediately, as opposed to the newer delays that will trail out." – Jim Otell (Munky's guitar tech) on the Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal. This pedal is also mentioned in the 2020 Premier Guitar interview.

At 9:5 in this Rig Rundown for James Shaffer of Korn, his gear is shown, displaying a Whirlwind Selector A/B Box.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a Perscription Electronics Outbox in his 2002 guitar rig.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a Digitech XMM Metal Master heavy metal distortion pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a Dunlop UV-1 Univibe pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used an ElectroHarmonix/Sovtek Small Stone Version 3 pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

at 1:20, he states that he uses the big muff pedal in the studio

Further, on : https://www.guitarworld.com/gw-archive/seven-string-summit-korns-munky-and-incubus-mike-einziger-worship-feet-steve-vai

quote SHAFFER: We had problems with mud in the studio while we were doing our first record [Korn (Immortal/Epic)] because we tune down and use a lot of gain. When you have two guitars that sound like that, it becomes too much. We tried to get rid of the mud by bringing in a Big Muff pedal that we turned all the way up, as that usually compresses the frequency response and tightens up the sound. The Big Muff actually made it sound even more muddy, but it also created this really cool texture, so we decided to take what initially appeared to be a problem and incorporate in into our music.

This pedal was used by Munky during The Serenity of Suffering tour. It functions as both a flanger and a chorus. The pedal can be seen at minute 8:48.

This pedal was used by Munky during The Serenity of Suffering tour. It functions as a reverb. The pedal can be clearly seen at minute 8:25.

At 1:24 of this video, James Shaffer can be seen using a Strymon BigSky during studio recordings.

Another pedal that I love is called the [WMD] Geiger Counter. It has endless amounts of fuzz. It’s the one sound you hear just before the bridge of “You’ll Never Find Me.”

On this artist page for James Shaffer of Korn from the TC Electronics website, displays some of his guitar pedals, including a TC Electronic PolyTune Polyphonic Tuner Pedal.

On this artist page for James Shaffer of Korn from the TC Electronics website, displays some of his guitar pedals, including a TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay.

James Shaffer uses a Pigtronix Class A Boost, according to Pigtronix's website.

According to Pigtronix's website, James Shaffer uses a Pigtronix Disnortion.

According to Pigtronix's website, James Shaffer uses a Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser pedal.