John Frusciante's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment

John Frusciante is the guitarist for the funk rock band, Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has also made a number of solo records. If you want to know how he gets his funky guitar sound, read further.

John uses has used a wide range of guitars throughout his years with RHCP and as a solo artist. He is known for using a lot of guitars under the Fender brand. Below is a list of equipment that John has used through the years.
 
The Red Hot CHili Pepper's John Frusciante's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment

Guitars
- 1962 Fender Strat (John's main guitar, he adores it)
- 1955 Fender Strat with a maple neck
- 1963 Fender Telecaster
- 1955 Gretsch White Falcon
- Taylor 314ce Acoustic (for Venice Queen)
- 1960's Fender Jaguar (for warmups) and other Jags
- 1961 Gibson Les Paul SG Custom
- Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty (for a cover song called Black Cross)
- Vintage Gibson ES-175
- Fender Mustang(s)
- 1961 Rickenbacker
- Martin acoustic Guitars (two 0-15s and a 0-18)

Amps and Cabinets
- Marshall Silver Jubilee 100W for his "crunch" channel
- 200W Marshall Major (clean sound) (KT 88 tubes)
- Marshall 1960's (A and B) cabs
- 1965 Fender Reverb head

Effects
- Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion
- Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble
- Boss FV-50 Volume pedal
- Boss Master Switch (the red one)
- Digitech Whammy
- Digitech PDS-8000 Digital Delay (2x)
- Dunlop DB-02 Dime Custom CryBaby
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi
- Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger
- Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n
- Electro-Harmonix POG Polyphonic Octave Generator
- Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
- Ibanez WH-10 Wah (2x)
- Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler
- MXR Micro Amp (2x)
- Moog CP-251 Control Processor
- Moog MF-105B Bass MURF
- Moog MF-105 MURF
- Moog MF-103 12-Stage Phaser
- Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator

Strings, Picks and More
- D'Addario XL .10s-.046 (with a .11 on the high E string)
- levy's strap (mss8 is the model)
- Orange Jim Dunlop Tortex 0.60mm picks