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Morello has sculpted his own unique sound using the same Marshall amp, a small selection of effects and just a handful of guitars over the years. When it comes to drop-D riffing, he turns to a black stock 1982 Telecaster:

“I needed a guitar that I could down-tune, and my roommate at the time traded me his Telecaster for an extra amp that I had, and that became my drop-D guitar.

“It’s ironic as the Telecaster is not a ‘heavy metal’ guitar, yet it was the guitar that played all of the Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave riffs that are in drop-D tuning.”