Matos de John Frusciante!!!!

on m'avait dit que ce n'était pas le mec de la pancarte qui avait joué , mais un autre mec qui a été opportuniste après car john voulait excuser sa boulette .

The main stuff for guitar sounds was that rig, and I was treating it with a modular synthesizer. So the recordings usually had nothing more than a wah pedal, distortion and fuzz. I use the Boss Turbo Distortion pretty regularly, and an Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n tube fuzz, which has really extreme EQ and a big, thick, meaty sound. I used it on the solo for Enough Of Me. I turn the EQ up, but leave my guitar tone knobs down and use either the middle or neck pickup so the initial source sound is really dark and kind of plain. If you blast the tone controls on the effect, you get a really thick, beautiful sound that reminds me of an exaggerated Eric Clapton tone in Cream, where you have this really smooth fuzz. For that solo, I was jumping from low to high notes rather than following a linear train of thought. I was kind of thinking in two ways at once by alternately playing very low notes with high notes, where the octave was displaced by a couple of octaves, and it worked really well.

I also used the Mosrite Fuzzrite a lot, and a Maestro Fuzz-Tone, which is a funny one. It's got a cord that goes to the guitar, and there's only an output top the amp. The E-H Holy Grail reverb is a pretty normal thing for me, and the Ibanez WH-10 is my standard wah since BloodSugarSexMahik. I don't think there's a better wah. When we were making Stadium Arcadium, there was so much wah I figured I'd use a variety of pedals and there wasn't one that came close to the Ibanez. There are a couple of Crybabys that are cool, but for me, they weren't as good, because I use a lot of feedback. I want something that when I put it in one position, one note is going to feed back, and when I put it in another position, another note is going to feed back. You just have more variation with the Ibanez because there's a wider frequency range. Another pedal is a Boss Chorus Ensemble, which I use to split the singal in my rig.

Do you have guitars set up different ways to achieve certain sounds?
I do. I use D'Addario .010s on my main guitars and the action is between high and low. Whenever I play a gutiar with really low action, there doesn't seem to be as much of a difference when I hit it really hard or when I hit it really soft - there's less vibration in the body. I would imagine if I picked the strings lighter, I would probably do better with lower action. But I go through extremes of hitting the guitar really soft and really hard, and there's also a difference of sound in fretting the strings hard and soft.

What type of picks do you use?
I use orange .60 mm Dunlop Tortex picks. When I play with a heavy pick, it seems like there's less difference in the sound from picking softly to picking hard. I like the acoustical relationship to the instrument and the way it vibrates the instrument more. It seems like I can apply more variation in sound by having a pick like this, depending on how you hold it. You can do the same thing you can do with a heavy pick, but a heavy pick can't ever really do what a lighter one can do in terms of rhythm playing. I used to use heavy picks when I was a teenager and into playing fast heavy metal. But as I gradually got more into playing the textural way, I've used the orange Tortex picks.