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Rig Rundown: Red Hot Chili Peppers [2017]

See how the extensive live setups used by Flea and Josh Klinghoffer have morphed since their 2012 I'm with You tour.

When we met with RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer in the summer of 2012, his pedal rig was one of the largest, most sprawling we’d ever seen. As of early 2017, plenty of the pedals have changed, but the extensive scale remains. While Klinghoffer’s stomps were previously spread across three boards, they now occupy two, plus four rack drawers. The larger board contains a Catalinbread CSIDMAN glitch/stutter delay, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man and Holy Grail Nano pedals, a Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver, an Xotic Effects EP Booster, and a bunch of Bosses (DM-2, DD-3, and DD-6 delays, a VB-2, vibrato, a CE-2 chorus, an RV-5 reverb, a DS-2 distortion, and a couple of FS-5L footswitches for activating a vintage Tone Bender MK 1.5 and a Klon Centaur).

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