Krank Krankenstein - Dimebag's Tone 

Friggin funny AF also! 😁 some of the s**t he would say would make me bust up!🤣

Absofuckinglutely! Dimes playing is what made me pick up a guitar, I was 10 years old when I first heard Vulgar Display Power. That album irreparably warped my young mind from the second I first heard Mouth For War, it made me go buy the cassette. The guitar solo from Rise, and the riffs from By Demons Be Driven compelled me to pick up a guitar.

@@freedomseeds8194 the Black Album made me pick up the guitar and then Countdown to Extinction and Vulgar is what I wanted to be able to do with it. Vulgar really is an awesome guitar album loaded with riffs and they showed everyone how to do it with a three piece metal band in my opinion, I always loved that there was no rhythm guitar under the solos. That album has everything By Demons Be Driven is a fun riff I wore out once I learned how to do pinch harmonics. Hollow is a great ballad. Regular People grooves like a MF’r of course Walk has one of my favorite Dime solo, the first time I saw him do that “fake echo” as he called it my mind was blown it sounded cool and looked cool when he did it and he was so smooth with it.

Just an observation of mine is that Dime would use what would be considered extreme EQ settings to dial in his tones. Now it seems like unless they are using a plexi most players keep all their amp knobs around noon. I started playing in the 90s and no one ever assumed an amp was meant to sound its best with all the knobs around noon. We would Dime the treble and bass and dump the mids and when we started down tuning found out we needed to dump the bass and push the mids and treble. I’ve always favored a brighter sound anyway so I’m sure my tone would be ear piercing to some. Anyway just a thought everyone sounds the same now because everyone is running recto or 5150/6505 knobs on noon with a boost in front. It’s a great sound but it’s been done to death. It’s interesting that Dime always played SS amps until nearly the end, I think he really would’ve embraced the profilers and modeling stuff once it got to sounding good, but who knows he used a lot of gear to get his tones and he always had a tight tone. I just think he would’ve taken advantage of being able to capture all of his eqs and his Randalls. Dime came along when the guitar community needed a new hero at least in the metal genre and he was doing something quite different at the time. I love all of the Pantera albums but his tone didn’t get great until Far Beyond Driven and for me peaked on The Great Southern Trendkill, Vulgar is their best album to me but his tone wasn’t there yet. I wonder if he would’ve stayed with Krank and tube amps or if he would’ve went back to SS . I also think he got away with playing SS because he was in a one guitar band and they didn’t step on each other Rex’s tone was always more mid focused and clanking but it worked. Long scattered comment sorry but no one has changed or innovated heavy guitar like Dime did since Dime. I know there’s fantastic players who are technically flawless but it ain’t got the swing the masters like Dime, Eddie, and Billy Gibbons you know? Edit: I thought when I heard the first demo of the 5150 iconic the crappy sounding EVH one, I bet Dime would love that amp and could do something with it.

@@brandonjackson5865 One thing about Dime...he never took real influence by what was popular...he would always find his own nitch and other players would ape his sound. Even in the end when using some tube amps he still aimed for a similar sound to his solid state days.

@@ivsiguitarist you are right I remember reading that he never learned anyone else’s stuff note for note he said he would learn a couple Randy Rhodes licks and then he would add that to his arsenal and change them up to suit him, then he’d learn some Van Halen , some Billy Gibbons, I think ZZ Top and all those great Texas blues players influenced the brothers more than anything else but Dime said he never wanted to play anyone else’s stuff note for note and I think that’s a great way to think about it. The Pantera reunion proves what a unique player he was. I’m sure Zakk could probably sound closer to Dime if he chose to do it that way, but I think by sticking fairly close to Dime’s rhythm and just hitting the high points of his solos he’s doing it right and very respectful. No one can sound just like anyone else but Dime especially his bends and vibrato is unique to him, but all the greats have that, Marty Friedman ? No one nails his stuff either.

Think he maybe used the warheads for clean tone & the x2 for some dirty tones. But mostly it was the century 200 & rg es on the albums

@@sheldonwright8770 I played the Warhead...that clean tone was pretty awful.

Thank you very much. I'm so glad you found my channel. Welcome to the community. It was a lot of fun getting to know this amplifier .

Thanks for commenting. Yeah I'm so glad I did this video. And yes, I will definitely have some QC captures of it very soon. This amp is too good to not capture.

Thank you! I was literally surprised at how good it sounded. There's something very unique about this amp

Thank you!!!

That tone 🤟🤟🤟

Thank you! I'm definitely gonna learn more of his riffs

I like Michael Romeo's tone when he switched to ENGL amps.

Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you. I really hope the channel starts growing a lot faster very soon. It's been a long haul.

Thank you very much. I've always wanted to try one of these. It was definitely worth the effort.

Thank you!! I'd love to compare the Rev 1 and the Krankenstein. Hopefully I get the chance. I hope you get your hands on one too

Yeah his riffs are sick, but his tone is too scooped and fizzy sounding for my taste. His tone reminds me of a Line 6 spider amp.

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I also appreciate the information that you shared. I literally know very little about this amplifier...any information I can learn about it is definitely helpful.

@@TONEWARSgearshow not a problem, it's an amplifier I have a ton of experience with, and happen to love. It's a beast. As a Kemper owner/user, I'm going to have to buy your profiles to get that tone back in my arsenal.

There were 2 versions. The plus and the regular version.

Thanks for commenting. Hopefully you can find one used out there. I just checked reverb today and there's several of them for sale.

Thank you very much. He definitely had a very unique style.

@@TONEWARSgearshow He really did hell on my most recent cover i legit improvised parts in a dime way it is super kick ass and fun

@@d3adlym3rcy25 his riffs are really fun and challenging to play....cant wait to learn more

@@TONEWARSgearshow yessir a good one is war nerve, shedding skin, anything off of trendkill

One thing that Fricker really isn't, is fickle 😂😂😂

Thank you. Absolutely!! They'll be on the website Friday

Will do!

Thanks for the info. I'll have to check out those albums.

Love my GK 85’s in my Peavey 2/12 cab

Cybermantis>>......word up dude. Peavey cabs are the best. Ever try the old scorpions? Those were some serious speakers. Talk about overbuilt. But all of this is a moot point when I own the GREATEST GUITAR PROCESSOR EVER BUILT.......THE LINE 6 HELIX. All others will bow before my Helix and worship the Godliness that comes from it's XLRs. All Hail, Helix. And If I didn't own a Helix I would own a Katana.

@@benburnett8109 Truth! My Peavey 4x12 cab is built like a tank. Thick internally braced birch ply. Yes, the Scorpion speakers were really good! I had an old Peavey Special 130 1x12 combo amp many years ago. It had the Scorpion speaker.

He only used the Krank cabs onstage. He had his Randall heads backstage including an MTS head and an X2. The revolution heads were never plugged it. Pics available all over the internet.

Haha I'm tempted

Haha you're so right!!

@@TONEWARSgearshow I need to stop commenting in the first few minutes and wait till the end. That riff was sick mate, when inspiration visits it is a magical thing. Maybe you could develope a custom version of the amp and we could call it the KariStein? #don'tkillmeKari

Thank you. I've never thought about doing STP tones. I would consider it though.

@@TONEWARSgearshow I recently caught the Rick Beato interview with Robert DeLeo and it gave me an entirely new perspective on their music. I was in 4th grade when Core came out and I've been a fan ever since. Thanks for the consideration!

Thanks for commenting. I didn't even notice that knob there. I just checked and it was all the way down. That explains the issue. I appreciate the information.

@@TONEWARSgearshow no probs. Great vids by the way. 👍

@@Witty8Name8Here glad you like the vids. Much appreciated

Also the rev matching cabs had Eminence legend v12 speakers, and I think the krankenstein had Eminence Texas Heat speakers in the matching cab. Apparently the amps were made specifically to work with those speakers. But what I know for sure is those cabs sound killer with the amps. 😊

Probably the mud killer

Hmmm....

The Stealth will eat it.

@@TheCyberMantis I'm afraid you are correct!! Lol

Looks good to me

Hell yeah!! Such a great riff! This amp really did that riff justice

It's tempting

Thanks for asking. I used to be in a band called REIGN. After that, Anastasi. I just do RU-vid now. music.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pIHGG2OpqMU.html&feature=share music.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nI2fPWsLJno.html&feature=share

@@TONEWARSgearshow very cool content and the amps you demo are great picks. Love the krank

@@BattleDroid134 thank you!!

Lol that would be awesome