r/John_Frusciante

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I've assembled this pedalboard to play RHCP songs, I'm so satisfied, the only thing I would eventually change is the Golden Plexi, but for now, playing with a solid state amp at home, it's a must.

I'm looking for some kind of headphone solution, I've heard Boss KATANA:GO is pretty good, do ya'll have any experience with it at the end of such board as a pedal platform and some sense of room acoustics? I feel like playing through IR via soundcard feels weird, like I was standing right next to the speaker.

I’m quite disappointed that Genex had its awesome samples removed? I was so excited for that track and it was dismembered in the new pressing..

Just started wondering about this because I was reading an interview with John from the time of the 2004 releases where he was quite adamant about a fully analogue process being the best for sound quality.

So I was looking at the JF records I have and wondering which, if any would be AAA. I'm not a total purist about this, plenty of records with a digital step sound fantastic, but I'm curious.

I feel like the original 2004 albums that were pressed in the US are quite possibly AAA, and some of the US pressed reissues too. My 2019 Curtains reissue has a sticker stating "cut from the original analog tapes" which is usually in the vinyl world taken to mean no digital step in between the tape and the cutting (although post Mofi-gate, who really knows). This pressing has 'BG' (Bernie Grundman) in the runout, and he has cut countless records AAA, so it's believable.

My 2023 reissues of TWTD and IOE however were cut by Daniel Krieger at SST in Frankfurt, Germany, and I think pressed at MPO, probably in France. In this day and age, as far as I know, it’s extremely unusual to ship a tape or even a tape copy over continents to cut from it, usually AAA records are cut by someone not that far away from the original tape. So these ones I’m thinking are probably cut from a hi-res digital file. They do sound very good.

The Superior Viaduct reissue of Niandra is probably cut from a digital file. It sounds really good, I’ve just never known Superior Viaduct to go that extra step to produce completely analog records. The two other Superior Viaduct records I have sound great BTW (Roberto Cacciapaglia’s Sei Note In Logica and Cluster’s Zuckerzeit).

I don’t have the Empyrean, but there’s some talk on Discogs that the Bernie Grundman cut is AAA?

Anyway, this discussion is probably too nerdy for most people, but would love to hear people’s thoughts on this, or if anyone has some insider knowledge they could share.

What if John have instagram or tiktok. What he would probably post ?

I sell a first U.S. press Vinyl for $650. Dm if you re interested

I just got a martin 0015 and have watched all the bootlegs of 2001 along with the ATP festival for the millionth time. Are there anymore videos of solo acoustic shows that aren’t on youtube?

Also, how much did John tour for his solo records? And why did he do the ATP festival in 2005 all the sudden?

Hi,

I'm looking for an image of a magazine article where John lists 3 or 4 albums that inspired his acoustic output, I think for the album Curtains. He lists nick drake, cat stevens, fairport convention, and Joan baez 2. It seems to have disappeared from the internet. Can anyone hook me up with it?

Thanks

The big question is: is it clicking because I’ve just listened to it enough times now, or is this mental health speed bump I’m experiencing bigger than I thought? 🤔🤣

Looks like my box set should be at my house in a few days! Can't wait to see it. I haev no idea if there is a larger outside box to hold all 4 records, or if they will all be loose. Don't really care either way.