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Rex
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I know a little bit about Rex's rig since I'm a big fan of all his work with Pantera, Down, etc. On Far beyond driven, he used a 4-string black Spector bass (lent by Rachel Bolan from Skid Row), a 5-string Music Man and 2 fretless basses : a Music Man (originally fretted but the company sent to him a fretless neck) and a Fernandes. Considering he doesn't use the low B on "I'm broken", I pretty sure it's the Spector (unlike, for exemple, "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" which should be the Music Man because of the low B). For the amps, I'm pretty sure he used an Ampeg SVT2 w/810 cabs, mixed with either a Sansamp or a little Marshall solid state guitar amp (a white head) for some dirt. After this album, it was the Spector only.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but that's what he said in some interviews, his autobiography...
And forgive my bad English !
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but that's what he said in some interviews, his autobiography...
And forgive my bad English !
Your English is excellent. Your post is more well-written than many native English speakers
Thanks for the kind words !
I forgot one thing : you guys have to visit the website of Joe Giron, the longtime Pantera's photographer. There are 30 galleries, and one includes a photo of Rex while he was recording FBD. We clearly see the Marshall head and the black Spector I mentionned. We also see the gear he used on "The great southern trendkill". For me, he has the best sound of his whole career on this one cause his clean sound (and Ampeg SVTII preamp powered by a Crest 8001, running 8x10 cabs) is absolutely cristal clear. For this album, he blended this clean signal with a Sansamp PSA1 (you can see it in the pictures). And there was also a third signal : the DI of the SVT2 preamp (in pre mode).
I forgot one thing : you guys have to visit the website of Joe Giron, the longtime Pantera's photographer. There are 30 galleries, and one includes a photo of Rex while he was recording FBD. We clearly see the Marshall head and the black Spector I mentionned. We also see the gear he used on "The great southern trendkill". For me, he has the best sound of his whole career on this one cause his clean sound (and Ampeg SVTII preamp powered by a Crest 8001, running 8x10 cabs) is absolutely cristal clear. For this album, he blended this clean signal with a Sansamp PSA1 (you can see it in the pictures). And there was also a third signal : the DI of the SVT2 preamp (in pre mode).
