Cannibal Corpse – Vile album cover

Cannibal Corpse – Vile

Album 1996

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1996 album Vile.

Music from Vile

Gear Used On Vile

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Cannibal Corpse – Vile (1996). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Guitars used by Rob Barrett on Vile

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Gibson Les Paul Standard

Avg price: $2,582.33

At 7:45 in this video, Rob Barrett shows his 1989 Les Paul Standard. It has a Charvel passive pickup in the neck and an EMG 81 in the bridge. It was used on Retribution (Malevolent Creation album), Vile, and all the C# Standard Malevolent Creation and HatePlow songs. It's now retired but still gets used for rhythm tracking on Cannibal Corpse albums.

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Gibson Les Paul Showcase Edition Silverburst

Rob used this guitar on one song on the "Kill" record, practiced with it during the recording of "Evisceration Plague" and most of the time used it on the B Standard tuned HatePlow and Malevolent Creation songs along with the Les Paul Standard used on the "Vile" album for the C# Standard songs.

Other Gear used by Rob Barrett on Vile

Electric Guitar Pickups

EMG 81 Active Ceramic Humbucker Guitar Pickup

Avg price: $96.91

Rob started using EMG pickups during the "Vile" era, in his Les Paul Standard he has an EMG 81 in the bridge position and a charvel passive in the neck, the rest of his guitars with EMG's have an 85 in the neck (which he doesn't use live, not sure if he uses them in the studio).