John Frusciante

The Fender 63 reverb unit can be seen here at the front of John's 2002 By The Way pedalboard.

In this interview from an April 2001 issue of Guitar One magazine, John Frusciante talks about the recording of his solo album, "To Record Only Water For Ten Days".

Guitar One: Your first two solo albums were recorded on a 4-track. On what was this album recorded?

John Frusciante: It was all recorded on a digital 8-track machine -- a Yamaha MD8. Then I had somebody dump it onto 2" tape so everything could be separately EQ'd at length, and separate types of compression could be given to each separate thing. I don't have any understanding of the science of how to "separate" things with the equalization, and most of these songs have a lot of different types of sounds going on; it's important for you to be able to hear each thing. On a lot of my mixes, you couldn't really hear the acoustic guitar because I would sort of favor the drum machine or the synthesizers or something; I'd kind of bury my voice and my guitar a lot, which actually should probably be the main things. So the guy who mixed it made those the main things.

"But Frusciante now calls the Shadows Collide with People recording experience “frustrating.” Although he doesn't disown the album, he speaks with more affection about the demos he made for it with Klinghoffer on a Tascam 488 mkII 8-track cassette recorder."

In the Premier Guitar article "John Frusciante: War and Peace," it is mentioned that John Frusciante uses the Roland TR-606 Drumatix. This drum machine was notably used during his performance at "Rock Am Ring" in Germany.

"With the Monomachine and the Machinedrum you can have a drastically different sound per note, yet following a coherent train of thought."

Posted by his Label "Acid Test" John Frusciante names various Instruments he used over time. One of those is the Roland R8

"Frusciante extensively used his Clavia Nord Lead 2, a Casio SK-1, and the Akai MPC3000 on the album To Record Only Water for Ten Days. Other electronic instruments used during Frusciante's recent recording spree include a Chamberlain, a Moog Voyager, an Arp String Ensemble, a Korg MS10, and a late-1970s Synare analog drum synthesizer."

Featured in a now deleted January 27, 2021 Facebook post by Fulltone, preserved in this January 28, 2021 post by fansite John Frusciante Effects and this January 30, 2021 Alternative Nation article. It is the first one made with a blue LED jewel.

John Frusciante (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) is holed- up in the studio and he bought a TTE today. His will be the first TTE sold with a Blue jewel, which will be the color for all subsequent TTEs:

A picture of Speed Dealer Moms gear before their canceled performance on the 26th April 2009. This is John's setup. Speed Dealer Moms is the side project of John Frusciante and Aaron Funk.

It's the smaller mixer to the left of the large centre console.

"And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb."

John Frusciante, in a post by his label "Acid Test," mentions using the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer among various instruments throughout his career.

"In the living room I have an 8-track tape recorder and a Neve console. I have really cool outboard gear like early digital reverbs and that. It’s my favorite place to be in the world!"

"And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb."

"I also have a Studer A800 24-track recorder, but it's not here because my house isn't big enough to hold it. I'm trying to find a place, separate from my house, for a studio.”

And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb.

Posted by his Label "Acid Test" John Frusciante names various Instruments he used over time. In this picture an Apple Keyboard can be seen.

On this Groove interview, John Frusciante explains what he used to make the track "After Below", mentioning the Tascam CD-RW2000 as the CD recorder which he used on that particular setup.

"And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb."

John Frusciante, in a post by his label "Acid Test," mentions using the Roland TR-505 drum machine among other instruments throughout his career.

Posted by his Label "Acid Test" John Frusciante names various Instruments he used over time. One of those is the Oberheim DX.

This photo is of John Frusciante's studio, from his article "Foregrow". If you look to the far right hand side of the desk, below the two knobs underneath the right hand side meter, you can see a piece of tape with the writing "EMT 252".

Used on Stadium Arcadium, particularly on the tracks "Dani California" and "She's Only 18", as stated by Frusciante in this Guitar Player interview.

"Dani California" I played the original solo when we recorded the basic tracks, and then doubled it later, except for the super-fast wah part at the end, which was too difficult to double perfectly, so I put that section through a Delta Labs Effectron II digital delay set to a quick delay with just a touch of slow modulation.

(...) “She's Only 18” The delay effect on the verses and solo were inspired by Hendrix’s “If 6 Were 9.” They were processed with the Effectron II, set to a quick delay with a little bit of modulation to provide movement. The engineer also created a really good backwards reverb for the vocals on the choruses.

In this interview, John says he used a Yamaha RY30.

In this article: ''One bedroom is filled with a vintage API console, a huge Doepfer modular analog synth, and an effects rack with a Fairchild 670, Pultecs, 1176s and vintage Neve and UA modules.''

"And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb"

John Frusciante, in a post on his label Acid Test's Facebook page, mentions using the Simmons SDS 8 among various instruments throughout his career.

Posted by his Label "Acid Test" John Frusciante names various Instruments he used over time. One of those is the Casio RZ1

"I also did this same thing with my AMS digital reverb, the only other source of reverb I used on the record. A good example of this is the tune Techniques And Shockwaves, where midway into the song, the only drums are just a series of tom hits which are all preceded by a long backwards reverb, as if each sound was coming from thin air; a natural, forwards reverb then follows."

"And I have six old 1176 compressors, a Fair-child, three Lang equalizers [a PEQ4 and two PEQ2s], two Pultec [EQP-IA3] equalizers, an EMT plate reverb, and an EMT 250 digital reverb."