Alternative Rock1999Californication

Scar Tissue Amp Settings

by Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Original Recording Settings

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Original Gear

Guitar: 1954 Fender Stratocaster (rhythm) / 1960 Fender Custom Telecaster (slide solos)
Pickups: Seymour Duncan SSL-1 or stock USA Fender single-coils (Strat); standard vintage Fender single-coils (Tele) (neck or middle (Strat rhythm); bridge (Tele slide))
Amplifier: Fender Blackface Showman
Channel: Single channel
Tuning: standard
Pickup Selector: neck or middle (Strat); bridge (Tele)
Strings: [ESTIMATED] .009-.042 or .010-.046

Chosen because 'the Marshall wasn't clean enough.' Bright switch likely ON.

Amp Settings

Bass

5.0

Mid

6.0

Treble

6.0

Volume

4.0

Volume 4-5 clean with slight edge. Bright switch likely ON. Reverb at 2-3. Frusciante confirmed B string was accidentally tuned slightly flat.

Effects Chain

→

Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble

chorus/preamp

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Boss FZ-3 Fuzz

fuzz

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1.Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble — Used as preamp/buffer — NOT for chorus effect. Signal: Guitar → CE-1 (preamp) → amp.

2.Boss FZ-3 Fuzz — Used on second slide solo ONLY. First slide solo recorded completely clean with no effects.

Playing Technique

Slide guitar (glass or metal) for solos. Influences: Snake Finger, Jimmy Page. Clean, melodic phrasing. Main riff/rhythm is NOT slide — only solos use slide.

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