Nuno Bettencourt's Guitar Gear rig and Equipment

Nuno Bettencourt has been one of my favorite guitar players since I discovered the band Extreme back in the 80's. His Washburn N4 guitar has always been an instrument I want to buy, and the relic version looks awesome.

Nuno Bettencourt's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment

Guitars
- Homemade guitar with Schecter body and Warmoth neck (used during first Extreme album)
- Takamine acoustic guitar (first Extreme album)
- Washburn N4 electric guitar (A Duncan '59 and a Lawrence L-500 in the bridge) - N4ESA
- Washburn N5 electric guitar
- Washburn N6 electric guitar
- Washburn N8 electric guitar
- Washburn P4 electric guitar
- WASHBURN EA-45 acoustic guitar
- WASHBURN EA20 acoustic guitar
- WASHBURN EA22 acoustic guitar
- Mouradian Custom Guitar

Guitar Amplifiers
- ADA MP-1 Preamp
- ADA Power amp
- Fender Vibroverb
- Fender Twin Reverb
- Marshall TSL amp heads (3 channel)
- 69' Marshall cabinets
- Hughes and Kettner TriAmp heads
- Marshall JMP head
- Marshall JCM head

Guitar Effects
- Boss ME-5 Multi Effects
- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
- Boss LS-2 Line Selector
- Boss MC-1
- MXR Phase 90
- MXR Phase 100
- Heil Talkbox
- Hughes & Kettner Tubeman
- Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay
- Digitech XP-100
- Boss GE-7 Equalizer
- Boss OC-2 Octave
- Demeter Amplification THE TREMULATOR
- Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere
- Rat pedals

Guitar Strings
- Dean Markley Nuno Bettencourt Signature guitar strings NB-LTHB gauges .010 - .013 - .017 - .028 - .038 - .052
- Dean Markley Nuno Bettencourt Signature guitar strings NB-CL gauges .009 .011 .016 .026 .036 .046

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

John Myung guitar gear and rig

John Myung is a bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater. John plays some really cool looking 6-string basses, and as you can imagine, being a member of Dream Theater means his chops are top notch.

Dream Theater's bass player John Myung uses for gear and equipment in his bass rig.

Bass Guitars
- Yamaha RBXJM2 John Myung Signature 6-string
- MusicMan Bongo 5/6 HS basses (this appears to be his main bass now)
- 12 string Grand Chapman Stick




Effects, Gear and more
- Two Demeter HBP-1 preamps
- Demeter VTDB-2B mono tube direct box
- Demeter HXC-1 optical compressor
- Ashdown ABM RPM1 EVO II preamp and ABM APM 1000 EVO II power amplifier (checkout the EVO head below if you need a head instead of just power amp)
- Pearce BC-1 preamp
- Framptone 3-Banger and Amp Switcher
- Mesa Engineering Big Block 750, Tri-Axis, etc.
- Eventide DSP4000 Ultra-Harmonizer (checkout the newer ultra-harmoniz below)

Strings and Picks
- D’Addario round wound EXL170-6 strings gauges (.032, .045, .065, .085, .105, .130)
- heavy-gauge Dunlop Tortex Triangle picks