John Frusciante

This is a scan of a magazine interview where Frusciante talks about using a Fender H.O.T. practice amp during the recording of Blood Sugar Sex Magik:

"I like to keep things simple. Those MESA/Boogie amps were too hard for me to understand. For most of the basics, I used two Marshalls: a guitar head for edge and a bass head for punch and low end. I split the signal with a DOD stereo chorus pedal. For some overdubs I used a Fender H.O.T. practice amp, but for a lot of parts, even solos, I just went straight into the board. You can get amazing, funky tones that way. In fact, a lot of my distortion is from overdriving the board."

John is clearly seen here using a Vox AC30 during a gig with Ataxia in 2004.

John Frusciante's Marshall Silver Jubilee 25/55 100W Amp Head can be seen during his Fuse Studios performance of “How deep is your love”.

In this photo John is clearly using Marshall JCM800.

In this rig diagram of John Frusciante's rig circa 2001, one can see a Fender Dual Showman.

John Frusciante has been associated with the Marshall Major Amp Head, a key piece of gear in his setup. However, the current submission on Equipboard lacks a valid source to confirm this association. If you have a reliable source, please update the submission to reflect this information accurately. Otherwise, the submission should be rated as "Completely Incorrect."

John Frusciante in a band called H.A.T.E. along with Flea. Roland JC-120 can be seen behind him.

In this rig diagram three 1960B cabs can be seen

In this photo of Frusciante's "live room", included in this June 16, 2016 article on his official website about The Almighty Instrumental Mixes, a Supro amp can be seen at the back of the room. Based on the pin pattern that attaches the grill cloth to the cab, it appears to be the 1624T Dual-Tone model.

My live room, created by contractor Jacques Lacroix, acoustician Vincent Van Hoff, and my studio manager Anthony Zamora, was the main place I got room sounds, reverbs, and atmosphere on these recordings. I sent sounds and performances from my computer into the room where they would come through a speaker, making the room reverberate, which would then be picked up by a room mic, the cable of which would bring this sound to my mixing board, from where it would return to the computer, where I would combine the rooms acoustics with the source sound. I’d generally do a certain amount of subtractive eq on my computer when sending the sound into the room, then on my mixing board when the sound came back to me, and also on the computer again when fitting it into the entire mix. These are two pictures of the room, each from opposite angles.

Used at the Tibetan Freedom Concert 1998

Used right after joining the Peppers in late 1988. The amp was a X-100B or X-60B head, connected to a pair of 4×12 Carvin cabinets. Based on the logo design, and speakers having black rings instead of white – the amp was made sometime in 1987.

This is the amp that John used during the ‘Mother’s Milk’ studio sessions, however, during the album tour, he used either a Mesa/Boogie (unknown model), or a Marshall JCM800.

(For the album, I played through a Soldano head, which goes to “11.” [Guitar Player (USA), April 1990])

In the film "Psychedelic Sexfunk Live from Heaven," John Frusciante is shown using a Mesa/Boogie Quad Preamp. This is supported by a photo from Daisuke Hirata on Flickr.

During the first few live shows after Unlimited Love has released, you can see that instead of using his Silver Jubilee, John Frusciante opted for a Marshall JMP 2204 head to pair with his Marshall Major. You can get a clear look at it at 5:04, and you can differentiate it from the JMP 2203 by the smaller logo and the more squared off EQ cutout.

1:41 and 1:142 you can clearly see JCM 900 on one of John's cabinets

In this video of the Peppers' cover of "I Get Around" , a Diezel Herbert 180W Tube Guitar Head can be seen next to one of John's Marshalls, at 0;33 into the video. The reason I am adding this to John's page is that the Diezel amp seems to be turned on and recorded, which would make no sense if John wasn't playing through it. Clearly,it's not a part of his rig but it may be a responsible for a big part of John's guitar tone during this performance

Used for recording on several records

In the VPRO documentary "A Dutch Connection", at 42:39 you can see a scene where John Frusciante is playing guitar in his bedroom through a Squier 15 practice amp.

John Frusciante clearly seen playing through a mesa/boogie triple rectifier head.

John Frusciante is clearly seen using a Hiwatt Custom 100 Amplifier Head in the provided image.

John Frusciante's gear can be seen hear before a show supporting The Will to Death album. This amp was also featured at live Ataxia shows and was most likely used on some of his 2004 efforts.

John Frusciante is confirmed to have used the Fender 70's Era Twin Reverb amplifier during his 1997 Nuttstalk tour, as evidenced by an image showing him performing with the amplifier among others.

John can be seen here using a Fender Bassman amp, this amp was used on most if not all the shows based in 2004