Stadium Arcadium Modular Funk — Filtered Verse, DS-2 Chorus & Wah Solo
Frusciante used his 1954 Stratocaster, beginning with a straight clean tone before splitting the signal into dry and Doepfer-filtered stereo paths. The chorus was doubled through a Boss DS-2, while later sections used MuRF processing, tape phasing, wah and Delta Labs Effectron delay; settings are approximated because the interview documents techniques rather than knob positions. Source: Ground Guitar’s Stadium Arcadium song-by-song breakdown, based on Frusciante’s 2006 Guitar Player interview.
Signal Chain
Notes
Begin with a genuinely clean Strat sound and let the filtered stereo layer remain secondary. The solo should grow from doubled melodic lines into a looser wah-heavy final run.
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