Foo Fighters tone

[RiffGuy]

Can anyone tell me what pickup Dave Grohl uses on "The Color and The Shape"? I love his tone, especially on that one.

Thanks.

 

[Byakhee00]

As best I know, he plays stock pups, and gets his tone from a combination of a Vox AC-30, and a Dual Recto

 

[HolyDirt]

recto tone is the foo fighters

 

[dalastcaffeine]

a hollow body gibby

 

[RiffGuy]

a hollow body gibby

Really? I figured he always played solid bodies--Les Pauls, Explorers.

 

[butnut]

It don't get more solid than an Ampeg plexi body!!! I love that thing, it's pretty darn heavy. Yeah, the Foo tone rocks.

 

[Rich_T]

he'll have been using the Explorer, SG and that other hollow body thing with the diamond F-holes and strat headstock. Into a Recto and a Vox AC-30. All stock pickups.

 

[dalastcaffeine]

he uses a hollow gibby to record.......

 

[y2stevo]

Wow i've never heard anyone talk about how much they liked the foo fighteres tone, IMO i think their sound is kinda standard..but thats My opinion..

 

[dalastcaffeine]

the foo fighter tone gives me an headache......i can't stand it.....

 

[RiffGuy]

Yeah, it's pretty basic sounding, but I like it.

 

[Brow]

On the 1st Foo Fighter's album Dave Grohl used mainly a LP and a Marshall JCM900 head and cab.

On 'The Colour And The Shape' (if I remember right) he used a Gibson Explorer, a Gibson RD and maybe a LP? I can't remember what amps though

On 'There Is Nothing Left To Lose' he mainly used a Gibson Trini Lopez, a Telecaster, a SG tuned to A (for Stacked Actors) and amps were a Vox Ac30 and a Mesa Dual Rectumfrier.

As for gear on 'One By One', I know when he toured the album he was using a Dan Armstrong Plexiglass guitar and Rectumfriers. I assume he was using his Gibson Trini Lopez to record the album too.

There may be some mistakes in my info, but as far as I remember, this is what I read in guitar magazines and interviews

Craig

 

[Marcel]

I'm a bit confused. What about Chris Shifflet the Ex-Guitarist of No Use For A Name. Isn't he now playing with Foo Fighters?

 

[Brow]

I'm a bit confused. What about Chris Shifflet the Ex-Guitarist of No Use For A Name. Isn't he now playing with Foo Fighters?

Yeah, Chris is playing with Foo FIghters. He was when I saw them at Birmingham NEC November 2002 anyway, dunno if he still is

 

[dannywild]

I get a headache too every once in a while. Like when my Johnson hits me in my noggin. (Cause the dang thing is so long)

 

[Marcel]

I've just found this in the database:

Chris Shiflett / Foo Fighters, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Pickup Models : SH-4