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Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 13:12
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Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment
Dave Grohl Guitar Rig Pictures

Dave Grohl became really well known as the drummer of the band Nirvana. After Nirvana he switched from drums to guitar and vocals in the awesome band The Foo Fighters. Let's take a look at some of the guitar gear and equipment that Dave has been seen using in his Foo Fighter's guitar rig.

 

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Dave Grohl has had a very large collection of guitars over the years. Below is a good listing of the types of gutars that have graced his collection.

Guitars

- For you real Dave Grohl fans, check out the new Dave Grohl inspired Gibson DG-335:

Gibson Inspired By Dave Grohl DG-335 Electric Guitar Pelham Blue

- Gibson Trini Lopez

Gibson Custom Trini Lopez Standard Custom Shop Reissue Electric Guitar with Trapeze Tailpiece Antique Red

- Gibson Firebird Studio electric guitar

Gibson Firebird Studio Guitar Ebony Chrome hardware

- Gretsch Duo Jet electric guitar

Gretsch Guitars G6128T-DSV Duo Jet with Fixed Arm Bigsby Black

- Ampeg Dan Armstrong model electric guitar

Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi Guitar See-Through

- Gibson SG custom electric guitar

Gibson Custom Shop SG Custom VOS Electric Guitar Classic White

- Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar

Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded '50s Neck Heritage Cherry Sunburst Nickel Hardware

- Gibson SG electric guitar

Gibson Custom Shop SG Standard VOS Electric Guitar Faded Cherry

- Fender Deluxe Telecaster electric guitar

Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar Black

- Gibson Explorer electric guitar

Gibson Explorer Pro Electric Guitar Ebony

- Gibson Les Paul Custom electric guitar

Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom Electric Guitar Antique Ebony

- Gibson RD Artist electric guitar

- Gibson Marauder electric guitar

- Washburn Dimebag Guitar with lightning bolts

Dean The Dean From Hell CFH Electric Guitar

- Gibson ES-335

Gibson Custom ES-335 Satin Finish Electric Guitar Faded Cherry

- Epiphone Riviera

Epiphone Elitist Nick Valensi Signature Riviera Vintage Sunburst Nickel Hardware*

- Gibson Elvis acoustic guitar

Martin Special Edition D-28 Elvis Presley Acoustic Guitar with Case Natural

- Martin D28 acoustic guitar

Martin D-28 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Sunburst

- Robin Savoy Standard (according to Robin Guitars site)

- Taylor 814ce and 612ce flattops

Taylor 814ce Grand Auditorium Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

- Dave Dearnaley custom V guitar, seen in Rope video (original built for Phil Campbell in the 80's)

 

 

 

Amp

- Fender Tone Master amplifier heads (x2)

- Hiwatt Custom 100 amplifier

Hiwatt CP-103 Custom 100 100W Pete Townshend Signature Tube Guitar Amp Head Black

- Custom Audio Amplifiers PT100 amp heads (x2)

- Mesa Boogie Road King (replaced the Vox/Dual rectifier setup in 2009)

- Vox AC30/6TB Top Boost Combo Reissue - 2x12

Vox Custom Classic AC30CC2 30w 2x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp

-Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Head

 


Cabinets

- Fender guitar cabs (blonde. 4x12. Probably tonemaster cabs.) (Supersonic cab pic below - they look very similar)

Fender Super-Sonic 100 412 4x12 Guitar Speaker Cabinet Blonde Straight

- Mesa/Boogie Straight Cabinets / 4x12

 

 

Effects Pedals

- Boss DM-2 Analog Delay

- Boss DD-3 pedal

Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal

- Boss Chromatic Tuner pedals (x2) / Power Supply

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner

- MXR Phase 90 Phaser

MXR M-101 Phase 90 Pedal

- Whirlwind A/B Selector

Whirlwind Selector A/B Box

- Rat distortion pedals

Pro Co RAT2 Distortion Pedal

- Dunlop Univibe pedal

Dunlop Uni-Vibe Effect Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Memory Man

Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man Pedal

- Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron

Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron+ Effects Pedal

- Dunlop Heil Talkbox

Dunlop Heil Talk Box

- Shure Guitar Wireless UHF-R with auto-assigning belt packs

- Keeley Katana pedal (pictured in 2007)

Keeley Katana Pre Amp Guitar Effect Pedal

- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply

- THD Hot Plates (purple)

- Ebtech Hum eliminator

Ebtech 2-Channel Hum Eliminator

- MXR Smart Gate pedals

MXR M-135 Smart Gate Pedal

 

 

Strings and Picks

- D'Addario EXL115 strings with .42 for the A-string and a .60 for the E-string

D'Addario EXL115 Nickel Blues/Jazz Electric Guitar Strings Single

- Dunlop Gator Grip .70mm guitar pic

Dunlop Gator Grip Standard Guitar Picks .71MM 6 Dozen

 

Go to the next page for awesome pictures of Dave Grohl's guitar rig!

 



Last Updated on Friday, 22 July 2011 07:36
 

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0 #50 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJuan 2012-01-30 20:15
2 Questions:
1 does Dave use the orange distortion pedal from Boss?

2 Do you know if it's possible to buy the DG-335?
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0 #49 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentGfeller 2012-01-21 13:43
Quoting MMike:
What kind of studio mic does Dave prefer?

They used a Neumann U67 on There's Nothing Left To Lose.
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0 #48 Just a thoughtSpud 2012-01-17 09:08
Quoting Conner:
what les paul does he use in the breakout video?


It lools like a vintage red 58 Gibson les Paul. Hope this helps a little
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0 #47 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentConner 2012-01-16 20:27
what les paul does he use in the breakout video?
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0 #46 Studio Micuberproaud 2011-12-22 15:26
Quoting MMike:
What kind of studio mic does Dave prefer?

As reported in Electronic Musician mag, Dave uses a Bock 251 mic in the studio for vocals :)
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0 #45 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentMMike 2011-12-22 09:50
What kind of studio mic does Dave prefer?
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0 #44 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentParker 2011-12-13 09:41
Quoting Jonathan:
HUGE FAN!!! What is the black acoustic that Dave plays?

It's either that elvis sign. or a gibson songwriter
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+2 #43 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentJonathan 2011-12-13 06:45
HUGE FAN!!! What is the black acoustic that Dave plays?
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0 #42 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentRaff 2011-12-12 17:39
are you sure that the pick that he uses is that one?
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0 #41 EverlongSpud 2011-10-27 07:25
Does anyone know the guitar he uses in the everlong video cheers, I think pat smear uses the same guitar but not in the video. I hear pat plays custom hagstrom guitars :sigh:
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-2 #40 L.E.S lightingxcfvgbn 2011-08-27 09:52
I worked lights on their last tour and dave has added an mxr carbon copy analog delay to the pedalboard and has an Olympic white american deluxe hss strat that he only uses as a backup. He only used it twice on the whole tour
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+3 #39 New guitar gear pictureuberproaud 2011-07-21 10:50
Hi all. Just added a new Dave Grohl 2011 Foo Fighter guitar rig picture (pedalboard) to the rig page!
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0 #38 Other HeadJ-and 2011-06-16 11:23
He has been using a Hiwatt Head, maybe you can add it :lol:

I Think is a Hiwatt Custom 100!! :P
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0 #37 Dave Dearnaley custom Vuberproaud 2011-04-18 10:48
Quoting roberto:
for the music video in "Rope" from wasting light you can see a Gibson flying V so add it if you can :P

It's a Dave Dearnaley custom V guitar. We added it to the gear list.
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0 #36 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentNathan 2011-04-18 10:39
Quoting roberto:
for the music video in "Rope" from wasting light you can see a Gibson flying V so add it if you can :P

It's actually not a Gibson, it's some other obscure brand, I don't know what it is but I know it's not a gibson
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0 #35 gearroberto 2011-04-17 16:39
for the music video in "Rope" from wasting light you can see a Gibson flying V so add it if you can :P
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-1 #34 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentLuke 2011-04-17 02:16
In the booklet of Wasting Light you can see a Boss Ge-7 Equalizer.
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0 #33 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentdman 2011-04-07 09:36
acapella.harmony-central.com/.../page273

scroll down and it shows you close up pics of dave pat and chris pedalboards racks and guitars
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+1 #32 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and EquipmentParker Rhea 2011-03-29 14:06
He's using Fendertone masters and a gibson flying V that was used on Motoerhead's Ace of Spade. I only know it has three humbuckers.
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+2 #31 RE: Foo Fighters - Dave Grohl's Guitar Gear Rig and Equipmentdanny 2011-02-19 14:52
Nowadays they uses Fender amps..
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-6 #30 The same brands?Pawel 2010-02-11 01:08
Quote from the www.foofighters.com FAQ says:
"Dave uses Rat Distortion Pedals, Boss Digital Delay Pedals, a Dunlop Univibe Pedal, and a Retrospeck Squeeze Box Pedal."
He uses amp distortion or a Rat. Cobain use Rat only in a studio for few songs.
Foo Fighters aren't grunge? I think Nirvana weren't strict grunge also, ... maybe on a first album only. The rest is indie rock with a little of grunge.
;-)
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0 #29 matthew 2010-01-20 15:14
its the ampeg guitar i forget the model number
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+1 #28 EXL115uberpro 2010-01-19 05:02
Here is a quote from Dave's tech in Performing Musician 2009 mag: He also has to Frankenstein strings for Grohl because of the sheer heaviness of his live axe playing. "I use D'Addario EXL 115s, but I throw the bottom two strings away and I replace them with a .42 for the A-string and a .60 for the E-string", explains Beebe.
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-1 #27 Billy 2010-01-17 16:01
Anyone know what string gauge Dave uses?
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+1 #26 Guest 2010-01-05 18:59
It's the Ampeg listed up there.
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-6 #25 He used the sam brands!NAD 2010-01-04 04:44
:sad: He uses a lot of the same brands of pedals Kurt used. Kurt used a a Boss Ds-1 and he used a lot of electro harmonix stuff too. And he also used a rat and so does Grohl. Of course their pedal boards aren't the same because the foo fighters aren't grunge
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0 #24 james 2009-12-14 04:52
what are you on about
kurt only ever used boss ds2 and ehx small clone and polychorus....dave doesnt use any of those
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-7 #23 ND 2009-12-13 12:42
You can see how Dave's time in Nirvana influenced his gear choices. He uses a lot of the same pedals Kurt Used.
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0 #22 Guest 2009-12-12 02:48
anyone know what guitar he was playing...i cant remember the award show but it was a clear, electronics exposed guitar?
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0 #21 Foo Fighterswareagle1807 2009-12-05 08:33
In american version he uses and Ampeg Ada6 in the UK version its the Gibson Trini Lopez
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0 #20 aRAGman 2009-11-21 20:28
does anyone know what guitar dave uses in the resolve video?
i think i know what it is, but i can't find it on the internet anywhere.
fantastic list by the way.
thanks
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0 #19 Dave guitar on TLT videoLeonDave 2009-11-10 03:05
is the Gibson Trini López, in the shot of Times Like These UK
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0 #18 Olli 2009-10-23 06:34
He also uses a Keeley Katana boost pedal as seen here www.bbandhisfob.com/.../DSC_0035wtmk.JPG - it's the little white one between the BOSS delay and the amp footswitch
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0 #17 drums?jack 2009-09-14 15:06
hey what about daves drums? i think they were tama but other then that i do not know
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-1 #16 Ampeg Dan Armstrong plexikyle 2009-08-19 19:54
This might not be the EXACT guitar, but I know it's the right brand.
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+1 #15 Guest 2009-08-11 17:42
the mesa roadking replaced the vox/dual rec in 2002 and he also uses a keeley katana boost pedal now
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0 #14 Jon 2009-07-19 09:19
Execellent list. Can anyone name an exmaple where the q tron is used?
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0 #13 foofan829karl zerfoss 2009-06-03 08:24
his new blue one is the dg335 it has abody of the es335 but the neck of a firebird and head stock of a firebird
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+3 #12 uberpro 2009-03-23 04:38
Looks like the Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar in the video.
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0 #11 amy 2009-03-22 09:08
Which guitar does he use in the Times Like These video..?
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0 #10 Piers 2009-03-05 08:01
Definitely now a Mesa Roadking MkII v 2 (almost exclusively in channel 4 - modern with the full suite of 4x6L6 and 2xEL34 selected) with a 4x12 Roadking Straight and 2x12 Roadking straight cabs.
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+1 #9 Guest 2009-01-18 17:19
dave grohl uses the phase 90 for breakout set at 10oclock
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0 #8 Guest 2009-01-18 01:44
no daves grohl rig now is a mesa roadking boss tu-2 boss dd-3 mxr phase 90 and a 2nd tu-2 for acustic set blue gibson dg-335 standard tuning blue gibson firebird drop a black gibson dg-335 drop b and a elvis presley acustic
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0 #7 Shredmonkey 2008-07-16 05:26
He's got a red trini lopez model and the blue one's his Dave Grohl inspired by model =]
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0 #6 MXRuberpro 2008-05-05 12:44
word on the street is that it was the MXR, but not 100% sure.
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-1 #5 flangeKris 2008-05-05 12:37
in the song breakout what did he use for flange or was it the phase 90?
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0 #4 The One and OnlyNoiseBox 2008-03-03 04:22
He's got a blue firebird (about the same color as the signature) too. I can't remember if it's a studio or a firebird IV, tho (I was a little more than too drunk at the show to remember).
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-1 #3 Kris 2008-02-29 01:32
Thanks that was the one I was talking about.
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+1 #2 GibsonUberProAudio 2008-02-28 03:03
The blue one you speak of may be a Gibson Trini Lopez signature model which the new Dave Grohl inspired Gibson DG-335 is inspired after. I'll include the DG-335 guitar in the list.
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-1 #1 Kris 2008-02-28 01:54
So what kind of guitar is that blue one he plays lately?
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