Josh Klinghoffer

A Korg MS-20 can be seen in this photo of Josh Klinghoffer in his studio.

Josh Klinghoffer can be seen using a Gibson ES-125 in this photo.

At 21:15 you can see the Ernie Ball Poly Strap Black on one of Josh's guitars, he uses the same strap with different colours on his other guitars. An Ernie Ball Poly Strap Black can also be seen in these BBC4 Sessions with PJ Harvey, e.g., at 15:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQlbJnAmg4

According to this website he currently uses the Ibanez BS-10 Bass Stack on the Getaway tour.

At 25:00 you can see Ian, his guitar tech, showing his pedals. In this moment he's showing the Death By Audio Interstellar Overdriver.

Josh is doing a small jam in october, 2017 and the camera pans to see his amp at 0:09. it appears to be a Marshall JCM 800 4210 from the 1980s based on the bigger logo size, and the button placement.

"The Cybertronic here, for example, would have to use a reverse wired expression pedal of its own but now I can just have one pedal, and the taper is reversed on the expression instead… This is a really, really high-end, whispy, headphones-are-broken kind of filter," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Lastgasp Labs Cybetronic Pedal.

"We've got the Boss Slow Gear which is sort of fun for messing around with. It's basically just like a violining pedal, it just responds to the attack of your picking and just fades in correspondingly depending on how you set it. I'm not terribly convinced by it to be honest. I think people buy it because it's rare. I think you could just do the same thing with a volume knob," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"It's a series of reverbs just set for different size rooms," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

A Marshall JMP-1 Tube MIDI Guitar Preamp appears in this Josh Klinghoffer rig rundown video.

An Analog Man Peppermint Fuzz pedal can be seen on Josh Klinghoffer's pedalboard in this photo.

In this photo, Klinghoffer is playing Gibson SG Special, likely vintage.

In a photo posted on Twitter, Josh Klinghoffer can be seen using the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer.

In the first picture, Josh Klinghoffer is seen with an Ibanez BC-9 Bi-Mode Chorus pedal.

In the Premier Guitar article "Dot Hacker: Psychic Friends Network," Josh Klinghoffer is noted for using the Univox U-1095 Super-Fuzz pedal.

At 3:41 into this Rig Rundown of Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tracy Robar (Flea's tech) shows the shell pink Fender Bass VI, which he says is played by Josh Klinghoffer on “Happiness Loves Company”, through Flea's rig (while Flea plays piano). One detail about the guitar is a string mute, which Tracy Robar says they don't use.

From Fender Guitarchive:

John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer. Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarists past and present, Frusciante and Klinghoffer both have Bass VIs. Frusciante plays his early-’60s three-switch model on “Dark/Light” and “Central” from 2009 solo album The Empyrean. Klinghoffer plays his on “Happiness Loves Company” from 2011 Chili Peppers album I’m With You.

According to this website Josh uses the DS2 Turbo Distortion by Boss for the Getaway tour.

According to this website he currently uses the Boss SP-1 Spectrum on the Getaway tour.

During The Getaway Tour, Josh Klinghoffer used the Xotic Effects SP Compressor, as detailed in Alessandra's article on Eye Opener.

He used this pedal at the Chili Peppers performance in front of the Pyramids of Gyza in Cairo Egypt. You can see this pedal along with it's classic EVH paint job on the far left hand side of Josh's pedal board at 17:02 and at 19:20 in the video, while he is playing "The Zephyr Song".

Used live with RHCP, as featured in this May 16, 2012 Electro-Harmonix Blog post

Congratulations to the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

Chris Warren (tech + keyboardist) with the band texted Suzi Matthews while on tour to let her know that Anthony Kiedis is using a V256 Vocoder on “By the Way.” And Josh Klinghoffer’s rig includes a Cathedral Stereo Reverb, Freeze Sound Retainer, Holy Grail Reverb and a Deluxe Memory Man Analog Delay/Chorus/Vibrato.

Josh played this 1960's Silvertone Silhouette in Lollapalooza Argentina 2018, during "If". The best frame for you to see it, is at 56:06. https://youtu.be/XLjyliMHX3U

"We got the Pigtronix with a nice little bit of protection for the knobs because that's going to get stomped on," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Pigtronix PolySaturator Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal.

"We've got a modded one which is really, really wide and out of tune. Then we've got a classic. The mod on the first CE-2 is literally just to widen the sweep. So you get a really almost Leslie-like out-of-tune for the wobble to that. The right hand of those CE-2s just has a very warm, I guess you might almost say a slightly 80s sounding chorus on it. Then people will hear that and say, 'Oh that's a sound I know'," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Boss CE-2 Chorus Guitar Effect Pedal.

"We've got the Line 6 doing the job of all the weird synth experimentation that came from a lot of Chili Pepper songs… This one is for a bunch of the synth sounds, like sequential kind of noises and some really heavily synthed out tremolo sounds," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler Guitar Effects Pedal.

"The Moog 12-stage phaser, that's just one sound that is on 'Throw Away Television,' which he uses in conjunction with the sequential synth on the FM4," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"We've got the Freeze here. Josh likes non-guitaristic appraoches to guitar playing. Sometimes he'll just flip between that and the DD-6 next to it," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"The DD-6 is set for the cascading repeats and the hold. So if he keeps his foot on it it will just build and build and build. So he'll flip between the DD-6 and Freeze and sometimes go one foot on each, and be sort of tap dancing between the two," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"At this point I'm just using these little Bright Onion things. This is just a single looper, but I just use it as a kill switch mostly just because when you start turning up all these pedals on towards the end of a song it gets very hard to turn them all off at once and get one of those nice cleaning endings of a song. So that's really just to kill all the gain that he's gathered along the way as the song ends," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"We have the old Silvertone. I mean I worried so much about these before I set my eyes on them. I thought they were going to be a nightmare, but they have given me no problem whatsoever. I've got the same amp, the same cab, I mean this is just for show really - we just use the bottom cab. They've come out of the box and have worked every day for nealy a year now, and we've been all around the world so they're good. They're basic engineering, but it still works. It's from 1963, you can't really argue with that. I mean you can see that it's made of press board but it's holding its end up," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.