Music
Loeffler primarily plays PRS, two of which were custom-built for him. He also uses two PRS Custom 22s, one red (which can be seen in the music video for "Send The Pain Below") and one white custom 24 (his main live guitar) and 2 Custom 24 baritones (one of which is a baritone with red "X's" on the neck as inlays, the other is gold-top). Pete also owns Fender Stratocaster Baritones (two were stolen along with the rest of the band's gear on May 9, 2007).
Throughout Chevelle's career, Pete's tunings have ranged from Drop C# (Sci-Fi Crimes) to D Standard (Point #1), to Drop C ("Hats Off to the Bull"), to C# standard (some tracks on Wonder What's Next), to Drop B (all albums since Wonder What's Next) to Drop A# (This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In, Vena Sera). He uses an array of pedals, including Boss' BF-3 flanger, PH-3 Phase Shifter, TR-2 Tremolo and a TU-2 tuner, DD-3 Digital Delay, and a OC-3 Octave. It is known Pete has made use of the SansAmp GT-2 on tracks such as "Wonder What's Next" as well as for feedback during live performances. His live amp of choice has long been a Mesa Boogie Mark IV. His onstage rig has two Mark IV heads, with one as a backup. Aside from the Mark IVs, Pete also owns several Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers, a Mesa Boogie Lonestar, a Mesa Boogie Roadster, and an Ampeg V4 (reportedly purchased from Josh Homme of the band Queens of the Stone Age).
On This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In), Pete has stated he used an Orange head to handle all the clean tones. More recently, in 2009 while recording Chevelle's 5th album, Sci-Fi Crimes, Pete is shown to also own several Bogner amplifiers (two Shivas and an Überschall), a Diezel VH4, a mid-70s Marshall JMP, an early-70s White Marshall Super Lead, and a HiWatt. In Pete's live rig, he handles channel switching with an Axess Electronics MIDI pedal. He is also well known for always playing guitar with his foot propped on his toolbox. As of 2009, Pete no longer uses a Boss Flanger, instead using a MXR Phase 90, Boss Tremolo, a Boss GE-7 Equalizer and a Sansamp GT-2, as well as a Custom Audio Electronics A/B amp switcher.
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