git sound on chili peppers "turn it again"

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anybody heard the new chili peppers album "stadium arcadium" ?
it´s great, and i dig the sounds that john frusciante gets.
in particular, that rad sound on the tune "turn it again".
i´m a bass player, so i´m no expert...what do you guys think he is using there ? fuzz ?
also. in the end he is playing really high, so maybe a sg ?

cheers,
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[blanik]

i haven't heard that song but i know Fusciante has every Electro Harmonix pedal available... 
so you might go on the EH website and listen to the soundclips they have for each pedal (some are even dry studio tracks by Fusciante) so you might find it there....

R.

[boogietube]

It's insane what he does.
The latest or last month's issue of Guitar player or Guitar world has him on the cover as an angel and the devil.
Anyway, it has a full interview with him on how he achieved the tones.
There was a lot of trickery and feeding back signals back into devices and such.
Just not a plug and play situation.
Pick it up - A freaky read.
Sean

[christobean]

you can check out john's setup at one point here:  http://guitargeek.com/rigview/576/

he could be using some sort of EH pedal like blanik said, but it sounds more like just guitar->distortion->amp.  cant say whether its the distortion on the amp, but right before it goes into that high part you described, there are some growly type notes that i have only ever heard come from a marshall amp.

with certain guitar and amp combinations you get that sortof screaming type effect where everything just gels together, i dont know really how to describe it, but it could just be johns strat into marshall.

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i read some guitar mags yesterday with some interviews and he says he recorded some parts slower and then played them back faster on the tape...maybe that could be that really high part in the end, cause since he doesn´t play sg´s (now i found out) i think it would be out of the range of a strat, right ?
christobean, i´m fascinated by those exact tones that you also described, where the sounding together of two notes really makes that scream.

cheers,
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[bdevlin]

That really high part at the end sound exactly like he recorded at a slower speed and sped it up.  I'd be surprised if he got that sound any other way.