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Dimebag Darrell was one of heavy metal's great guitarists. Darrell played in bands such as Pantera, Damageplan, Rebel Meets Rebel. Let's look at some of the guitar gear and equipment that Dimebag Darrell was seen using in his guitar rig.
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Guitars
- Washburn 333 Dimebag Darrell Electric Guitar
- Washburn Culprit Dimebag Electric Guitar
- Washburn Stealth Dimebag Electric Guitar
-A Large variety of Dean guitars are sold under the Dime name
    
   
- Dean ML model guitar (main guitar from 1980 to 1994)
- Dean Dime O' Flame
Note: Dean makes a DimeTime pickup which is said to be a close replica of the pickups dimebag used
Amps and Cabinets
- Randall Randall RG100ES heads and cabinets (1983 - 1991, 1996 - 1999)
- Randall Century 200 heads and cabinets (1992 - 1995, 2000)
- Randall Warhead heads and cabinets (2000 - 2004)
- Randall X2 Warhead heads and cabinets (2004)
- Krank Revolution heads and cabinets (late 2004)
In 2010, Dean started making a Dime Amplification head and cabinet:
Pedals and Effects
- Furman PQ4 parametric equalizer (1990 - 1995)
- Furman PQ3 parametric equalizer (1996 - 2004)
- MXR Six band graphic equalizer
- MXR 126 flanger / doubler (1990 - 2004) - blue rack unit
- Lexicon effect modules
- Korg Ax30g
- Rocktron Guitar silencer
- Digitech WH-1 Whammy Original pedal (newer whammy pictured)
- Jim Dunlop Crybaby 535Q Crybaby From HELL (Designed in conjunction with Dimebag Darrell)
- Whirlwind A/B Selector
- Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner
 
- Dunlop MXR Dime Distortion (designed in his name - don't believe he was around to use this one)
- MXR Wylde Overdrive pedal
Strings and Picks
- Dunlop Tortex .88mm guitar picks
- DR strings
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Comments
He used Bill lawrence Pickups throught out his career that was one of his only constants. the Seymour Duncan Dimebucker is supposed to have been a pickup designed to take over the live side of his rig as they would have been a cheaper alternative for his guitars he used live (which got broke quite often) he also used the lawrence flipped (bridge rail nearest the neck)
Even then he used randall's in damage plan, He had a bunch of krank fake cabs and heads up front and at the back he had a bunch of randall's including randall X2 Rm100s V max i think and cyclone.
The amp he used at the time was a modified Revolution head. It didn't get the Krankenstein until after he died, I believe.
I've not heard of this problem before and i never really thought about it being my amp as the problem more of a missing piece of gear but i'll look into it and see if it needed tightening up.
Also I don't think any of the RG100es were any different as far as "better gain" because dime's were carpet ones and they were just as good.
I've read may times of people saying it's probably a good idea replacing the caps in the amp, has anyone done this and if so what were the parts you used and their effects ?
Also to respond to the chap asking about what grady was doing, he would turn up the doubling effect manually when dime hit harmonics or dime squeals on the mxr flanger/doubler.
Thanks for the info people.
Take your RG100ES to an amp tech and have him make sure the mainboard screws are tight, fixes gain problems. I know the RG100ES has a lot of gain on tap, and pushing the front with the Furman and MXR 6 band should definitely give you enough gain. So I am thinking that you have loose mainboard screws, a guy on youtube mentioned that his RG100ES had gain problems, then he took it to a tech, the tech tightened the screws and presto, tons of gain. Also make sure you are pulling the Treble knob out for the gainboost, but there is a volume drop by doing so. Also one quick question, is your RG100ES a Carpet or Tolex head? Because I have heard that the early Tolex RG100ES heads tend to have more gain than older ones.
The 6-band MXR pedal you have up there is the wrong one. He used the vintage blue one without an on/off button or 9 volt A/C adapter (which is a pain in the ass but ONE HELL OF AN EQ!!)
Dime did play his signature wah he's been in a video using it, and i think i heard he used his little mxr distortion pedal backstage while he warmed up too, But i can't remember the source of that info.
Also dime either used a dimarzio super distortion in the neck or a Seymour duncan 59.
I also suffer for a complete lack of gain in my rig with an rg100es furman pq3 and mxr 6 band ..... just not enough gain .. the tone is right just need to be pushed more and more but i don't know what's missing.
I run an X2 at the moment as i can't keep playing my other rig as it just disappoints me every time i hook it up.
I wish someone would chime in with the something we all missed and solve this puzzle haha.
Try taking your amp to a tech and have it looked over, and in particular get him to make sure that the Mainboard screws are tight, a guy was having gain issues as well, but having the Mainboard screws tightened fixed the gain problem. It was one of the Tolex headshell RG100's though. But the guy had his guitar plugged straight in with not even very high power pickups and was getting the kind of gain and harmonics that Dime had, he did however have the treble knob pulled. here is the vid link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BheB7agxFBE
Hey, do you remember what vid that was, since I would like to check it out.
run the guitar into the mxr 6 band with the 2 middle sliders all the way up,the next 2 outer sliders an 1/8 inch lower,and the last 2, 1/8 lower than that..it will look like a frown face..run that into the hush and then into the amp on the dirty channel.run the furman in the amp loop(use the lo in and outs)don't raise the volume on the furman past 6 or 7 or else it wont be so tight sounding..the only bad side is that the signal going into the amp is so hot you can't get a clean channel..thats why dime used a separate amp for clean sounds...and there it is,good luck!
i also found this, hope it helps! www.guitargeek.com/rigview/415/
the 2 units with all the blue knobs are furman pq 4's,the unit on top of those is a TC electronic G-major,the bottom is a rocktron guitar silencer.
yeah some of it, he's got a rack mount tuner, wireless unit, 2 quad noise gates, multi effects processor, and the bottom one is also a gate, "guitar silencer". sorry if thats not too helpful i can't remember the exact brand on the quad gates, i know metallica uses the same ones so if your wanting to find out go to theirs and find the quad gate, but thats all i can get from what i can see from the picture, any more questions?
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Does yours have the carpeting over it and do you have the sustain boost engaged?
I have a 1989 Randall RG80ES (with carpeting), and it doesn't sound as good as the ones online. I believe (from what I've read) the 1986-1987/1988 versions were the best ones.
My advice for you is to probably spend some money on an overdrive pedal. I have a Bad Monkey overdrive and I use it on the dirty channel without the boost and it sounds A LOT better.