Californication

Clean and slightly overdriven lead tone. Frusciante uses a Strat and Tele through a Mesa Boogie Trem-o-verb.

Frusciante played the track on his 1957 Gretsch White Falcon, most likely through the Fender Showman used for several of the album’s spacious clean sounds. No reliable song-specific amplifier settings or distortion-pedal assignment has surfaced, so the controls below are restrained approximations based on the documented guitar and probable amplifier. Source: Ground Guitar’s Californication rig breakdown and White Falcon history.