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Stephen Carpenter is the lead guitarist and occasional multi-instrumentalist in Deftones.
Carpenter has a side project called Kush, featuring Christian and Raymond from Fear Factory and B-Real from Cypress Hill. Carpenter also recently formed a second side project called Sol Invicto that is described as metal meets drum and bass.
Let's look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Stephen Carpenter's Guitar Rig.
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Guitars
- Stephen Carpenter ESP model guitars:
- ESP Stephen Carpenter 7-String Stef-7 Electric Guitar
 
- ESP LTD Stephen Carpenter 7-String SC-207 Electric Guitar
 
- EMG-707-85s pickups (these are the 85's for the 7 string)
- ESP LTD SC-608B Stephen Carpenter Baritone 8 string guitar
Note: Carpenter brings tons of guitars on tour with him
Amps and Cabinets
- Marshall JCM 800 heads
 
- Marshall 9200 Dual MonoBlock Power Amp
- Marhsall EL34 100/100 power amps
- Marshall 1960B Straight Cabinets / 4x12 (80 watt and 75 watt speakers are used in the various cabs)
Notes: He's been playing Marshalls since he began playing guitar
Effects
- Zvex machine wah and fuzz factory
- Digitech Whammy
 
- Electro-Harmonix Bass micro synthesizer
- Boss PS-5 Super Phase Shifter
- Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
- Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
- Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
- Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
- Boss FL-2 Flanger
- Whirlwind A/B box
- Boss FZ-2 Fuzz / Boost
- Boss OC-2 Octave
- Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pan
- Rocktron All Access Midi Foot Controller
- ADA MP-1 Midi Preamp
- Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner
- Marshall JMP-1 Midi Preamp
- Rocktron Patchmate Switcher / Router
- Rocktron Replifex Multi-FX
- Native Instruments Guitar Rig
- Line 6 POD XT Pro - "In my guitar rack I have one POD Pro so I can use it strictly for my direct signal" - Stephen Carpenter
- Furman Power Conditioners
- TC Electronic 2290 signal processor
- Ernie Ball Volume
Strings and picks
- Ernie Ball .011-.059 gauge strings
Quote: "I like my action set a bit high" - Stephen Carpenter
- 1 mm Dunlop Tortex picks (black with custom logo)
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Comments
I have to agree. I just heard some youtube video of Stephen talking to some guy a few months ago and he said that the other guy in the band uses orange amps and he does not himself.
I don't think that's his, dude.
I would like get more information about his distortion. Can somebody tell us? and... i saw a video which stef used the "guitar rig 3", and his distortion was pretty cool and huge like always :P, That´s all!!
Take care! bye..
(the first three albums were recorded using 6-strings)
Adrenaline= E Standard
Around the Fur= Drop C#
White Pony= Drop C
(At this point, Steph switched to his 7-string baritones)
Deftones= G# Standard 7-string variant
Saturday Night Wrist= Drop F# 7-string variant, for the exception of "Beware" which is in G# Standard
(he began using 8-strings after Saturday Night Wrist, and first recorded with them on the postponed Eros album)
Diamond Eyes= F# Standard 8-string variant
Chino Moreno, when he plays guitar, is tuned to Drop C for songs off White Pony, and C# Standard for the songs from Deftones and Saturday Night Wrist
Hope you guys found this informative!
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back in the Adrenaline days for sure.