How do I get Dimebag's tone with a Mark III?

[scottm]

Oh yea it's definitely all in the hands. Here he is using a Marshall - an MS-2!!!! Amazing.... :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0j8arXzu0

 

[#2121313]

Yeah but no live tho

 

[eltib]

He has been known to borrow or rent Marshall cabs way back in the day but never used a Marshall head live.

FWIW - Marshalls...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qX-r3_hn4U

Facelift is right on the money with his original reply, those are the exact pieces of gear and settings he used. I had a book called Riffer Madness that has a bunch of things written by Dime about his sound and he mentions how he specifically uses the 6 band eq (as Facelift said) and stresses how it must be that particular blue one.

Although it's all in the hands, Dime would sound good thru any amp, check how it buzzes and then needs a good kick to work again lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2ToYJ7pQE

Don't forget to tune down a quarter step too eh! 15 cents if I'm not mistaken...

I also read somewhere that it was Vinny who actually got Dime "his sound" by messing around plugging all sorts of pedals/gear together in different order and f*n with the EQ and all...Read that once.

A guy I know on the Dean forum who knew Darrell said "He was using Randalls at that Foundation Forum show." Personally when I first heard Pantera when CFH came out, I thought Darrell was using a MB studio 45 preamp.

I tried Randalls out in the 80s, and could never could get a good straight sound outta them without outboard gear. They were too flubby on the bottom end.

 

[eltib]

Oh my. Any idea when or where he used a Mark 1?

Trendkill

WOW!!! :shock: Sorry to dig this thread up. Im a big Pantera fan (RIP Dimebag). Thanks for all of your detailed info on his setup. Do you have any other pics of Dime's rigs? You can see exactly where he "chose" to tuned his guitars from this pic - too cool!

Btw, afxwinter over in the rigs and tones section covered 5 Minutes Alone on a Mark III and I thought it sounded (kinda) close.Linked here.

Funny, I swore I saw a Boogie in the "Drag The Waters" video. I guess that photo is proof now. But its a reissue Mark1, and not a original.

 

[Facelift]

Funny, I swore I saw a Boogie in the "Drag The Waters" video. I guess that photo is proof now. But its a reissue Mark1, and not a original.

It was said that he only used the Mesa for cleans, never for distortion. So that makes sense, especially for the date of that song ans whats written on the amp.