James "Munky" Shaffer's Gear

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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at 1:13, munky is seen using the ebow on the song "insane"

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

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at 0:37,he is seen playing this guitar

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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.”

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At 5:17 you can see the Ibanez APEX20, and after that appears James "Munky" Shaffer himself talking about the guitar with some live clips of him playing it.

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According to Native-Instruments official site James is a user of the Native Instruments KOMPLETE software package. James says "I have my Guitar Rig set up on the road with me and in my studio. I can't get over how incredible my guitars sounds through it. Guitar Rig is amazing!"

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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James Shaffer uses a Pigtronix Quantum Time Modulator Chorus/Vibrato, as shown on Pigtronix's website.

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James Shaffer uses the Pigtronix Gatekeeper noise gate pedal, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Imgur.

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This detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup shows that he uses an X Wire XR 905 Digital Wireless unit.

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In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a Boss RV-3 pedal in his 2002 guitar rig.

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In this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup, you can see the guitarist used a custom chrome plated Dunlop Heil HT1 talkbox in his 2002 guitar rig.

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"I have my Guitar Rig set up on the road with me and in my studio. I can't get over how incredible my guitars sounds through it. Guitar Rig is amazing!"

Throughout the "Blind" video he uses a custom Ibanez S5407 first seen at 0:15.

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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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James Shaffer uses the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 PLUS on his pedalboard, as featured in MusicRadar's "In pictures: 68 pro guitarists' pedalboards."

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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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Este pedal fue usado por Munky en una parte de la gira de el album Untouchables, en el año 2002, no encontre ningun video asi que puse una imagen de la pedalboard de Munky del año 2002.

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In the video @0:35 he says "this is actually probably the the body of this is actually is my very first universe I've been as that I bought when it first came out and I think it was 1990, yeah and it's been rebuilt so many times and you know the original the original neck on here was the disappearing pyramids you know that Steve I designed, and but you, know I sent it to Ibanez and they coated this with I had it covered in duct tape so yeah, it's been rebuilt probably ten times because I kept breaking the neck on it so they had to put this uh, we designed this this neck to reinforce the neck you know because I would I'd slip on the stage a lot and fall on the guitars and they would break or the straps would come off and you know I'd just kind of like kick them across the stage it was complete guitar abuse but yeah, this is one of the original ones and it's I've been using it for the last year or so kind of brought it back into the arsenal of of guitars so it's, it definitely a special a special guitar I think I'm going to retire it after this tour just because uh, kind of, sentimental value to it what do you tune - um this is tuned drop down a whole step so which makes the low be an A and then the e a D and so on".

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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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This pedal was used by Munky between 2002 and 2010. It was a fixed part of Munky's pedalboard during the albums Untouchables, Take a Look in the Mirror, See You on the Other Side, Untitled, and Korn III – Remember Who You Are. Later, this pedal was replaced. It is unknown which songs he used it on. I couldn’t find a video, but I did find an image of Munky's pedalboard from 2007.

Also this detailed gear diagram of Munky's Korn stage setup shows that he uses an Ibanez DE7 Stereo Echo/Delay Tone Lok.

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