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Rex Brown Bass Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Thursday, 20 March 2008 12:04

Rex Brown is a bassist, who is best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Pantera from the time the band formed in the early 80's until 2003.

Rex has played on many tracks including ones with Jerry Cantrell.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Rex Brown's Bass Guitar Gear Rig.

 

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Basses
- Spector Rex Brown Signature Basses (live and studio)

Spector REX2000/4 Rex Brown Signature 4 String Bass Black Stain

- various Fender Precision Basses (studio)
- Fernandez 8-string (studio)


Amps and Cabinets
- Ampeg SVT-4 Pro amplifier Head

Ampeg SVT-4 PRO Series Bass Head

- Ampeg SVT-II amp (used along with the SVT-4 on Down III: Over the Under album)

Ampeg SVT-2 Pro Series Amp Head

- Ampeg SVT410HE Bass Cabinet with 4x10 speakers

Ampeg SVT-410HE Bass Enclosure

- Ampeg SVT-810AV bass cab (live and studio) with 8x10 speakers

Ampeg SVT-810E Bass Enclosure




Effects and More
- Boss CH-1 Super Chorus

Boss CH-1 SUPER Chorus Pedal

- Morley PBA-2 Dual Bass Wah

Morley PBA-2 Dual Bass Wah Pedal

- Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner

Korg DTR-1000 Rackmount Digital Tuner

- Rocktron VooDu Valve Preamp Multi-FX

Rocktron VooDu Valve On-Line Tube Guitar Preamp

- Ashdown Bass Chorus Plus
- MXR Phase 90

MXR M-101 Phase 90 Pedal

- Musician Sound Design Earthquake Bass Wah

Musician Sound Design EQ-2 Earthquake Revolution Mark II Bass/Keyboard Wah Pedal

- MXR M-80 BASS DI+ with distortion (reportedly his settings are in the back of the manual)

MXR M-80 Bass Direct Box with Distortion

 

 

Strings and Picks
-  Dunlop Tortex 1mm triangular picks

Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks 1.0MM 1 Dozen

- medium light Dean Markley Blue Steel bass strings

Dean Markley 2674 Blue Steel Cryogenic Medium Light Bass Strings
Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 05:29
 

Comments 

 
0 #6 Cowboys from hell — Riley 2012-01-27 21:37
He played a four string Jackson then
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0 #5 Rex Browns bass sound — Nick Rea 2009-10-31 04:55
i hate to break it to you but you will find that to get the sound that rex uses you have to use a Rocktron Voodu effects preamp to get that crisp crunchy tone that we all know and fu$kin love.
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0 #4 Stephen 2009-10-11 14:43
He does use the MXR M-80, or at least has used it, because his settings are in the manual.
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+2 #3 Olli 2009-07-19 10:43
It could be a mxr. But he is also listed as a SansAmp user on the Tech21NYC Website. I had once an MXR M-80, but constantly over the past 10 years i play the SansAmp Bassdriver. From the sound it's also possible that it's a SansAmp. The MXR has much more distortion and in my opnion it's more difficul to get just a lil dirt into the tone.
Maybe he put a bassdriver to the box of a m-80;-) for the m-80 it has to less controls.
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0 #2 UberPro 2009-06-23 13:54
The mystery MAY be solved. Check out this video where Rex walks through his gear www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsYNy2kapk at second 15 you can see at the top right some pedal...looks like MXR, but not sure. There are some other very quick shots of it later on in the video....what could it be...
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+1 #1 Rex brown distortion — ****waffle15 2009-06-23 13:12
I have looked everywhere and all I can find about rex browns distortion is that he wont tell anybody. He is not even on the mxr M-80 bass di+ artist list and nowhere does it say that he uses dunlop or mxr pedals but it does say that those are the settings used by rex but the artist list includes bassists less popular than rex such as Juan Aldrete but still no rex. It is possible that he does use this pedal but putting his settings in the back of a pedal manual hardly counts as keeping his distortion secret. It could be that the settings in the back of the manual are just to make a "rex brown like" distortion. This comment is not to put down the person who suggested that this pedal be rex browns but I wouldnt want rex brown fans spending 140 bucks on a pedal that has absolutely no similarities between rex's sound. I don't know when this pedal was released but if it was after cowboys from hell then ideas of rex's use of it in pantera is pretty dead because this is where his distortion sound is really obvious.
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