Foo Fighters Tone

[Tom@thenewculture]

Gear I currently use:
Rockerverb MKii 50 watt 1x12 combo
Epiphone ES-335

I'm looking to get a foos sorta sound out of my amp, and I have no idea where to begin.
Any help is much appreciated cheers!

[Jondog]

I always just set the amp up with a medium amount of gain. Foo fighters is a mix of many different amps over the years. Fender, Mesa, Vox, Marshall, Peavy.

[Mystic38]

^^ agreed, and an assortment of guitars too

I always just set the amp up with a medium amount of gain. Foo fighters is a mix of many different amps over the years. Fender, Mesa, Vox, Marshall, Peavy.

[fiveightandten]

Bridge position humbucker.
Lots of mids.
Only as much gain as you need to to make the guitar signal distort (this will be below 5 on the gain knob on your amp)
10 or 11 gauge strings.
Hit the guitar. Hard.


As others have said, they have changed what they used quite a bit. But this is an easy type of tone to get. It's the bread and butter of any decent tube amp paired with a humbucker guitar.

-Nick

[johnnyblues]

Check out proguitarshop's opening demo of the EQD Palisades. I thought that was the closest FF recorded tone that I've heard from any non-FF setup.

[b80]

Big Foo Fighters fan here.

It's less gain than you think it would be. I remember hearing that Dave sets his amp for his lead/solo tone and rolls down the volume for his main rhythm tone. Also, he has recently been seen with a Keeley Katana or an Xotic EP boost added to his board (in addition to his delay & phaser). Maybe he's using these to push even more gain from the amp? But, it's a mix of three guitars that give it the hugeness.

[Dark Helmet]

WHICH guitar? Dave, or the other guy...