Kerry King

Blood Crackle finish, Reverse Bananna Headstock, EMG 81/85 pickups, Kahler tremolo, neck-thru construction. Kerry Played these guitars during the period of time when bc rich wasn't making guitars.

At 0:44 of this rig rundown Kerry shows and talks about his signature Warlock 6 in a custom fire finish. This particular guitar is set to drop D.

At 1:56 of this "Rig Rundown" Kerry shows this guitar where he says it is one of his main guitars! Premier Guitar writes in this accompanying article that this is a "2nd generation B.C. Rich Kerry King V loaded with his signature EMG KFK 85 in the bridge and a Sustainiac in the neck (which he uses on the intro to “Dead Skin Mask”) along with a Kahler 2315 tre."

At 1:10 of this "Rig Rundown" Kerry talks about this original signature V that he uses on any songs that needs a clean sound.

Kerry playing on a B.C. Rich Mockingbird

Kerry here playing on a B.C. Rich Warlock.

Kerry can be seen here playing on a Dean ML 79.

Kerry King’s Signature Marshall JCM-800 Amps are shown at 7:35 in this video interview. He describes the amps saying “The one that this is based on is called the beast and I had it sent to Marshall to find out what was so great about it and see if anyone modded it over the years before I got it. The reason that head was so good, Marshall has parameters, and every transistor, everything has to be within this range. My entire head, everything was straight up. It was the perfect head. It’s how it was supposed to be and they don’t all come out like that, but that was the perfect one and they based this off of that.

He continues “It’s got the beast button which engages the assault mode and the assault mode’s got a built in gate because it’s basically taking my 10 band equalizer with a decimal boost and putting it in the head. And you can’t change the parameter, but it’s the parameter that I always had set. And you can add more or less of it. It’s really cool. I could go anywhere in the world and if this rig didn't show up, I don’t care, I’ll play through a cable if I have to. But if I have one of those heads, you wouldn’t notice any difference in my sound because I go directly into that.”

Kerry King describes how he uses the Marshall Mode Four Cabs in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown. At 8:52, he says “If I’m running 3 heads and I have 6 cabinets, I don’t have one head running these two, one head running these two, and one head running these two. Because then you have 3 distinctly different sounds as you walk across them and you’ll notice. So the way I set them up, if I have 6 cabinets, one head goes to 1 and 4, another one goes to 2 and 5, another one goes to 3 and 6. So you just get a big wash of the entire sound. You don’t stand in front of one and hit a spot on stage you don’t like. It’s really cool. I don’t think a lot of people do that, but I just did it naturally because it seemed right to me.”

Kerry here holding a Marshall JCM 800 2203 head.

During an interview w/ Premier Guitar for their Rig Rundown series, Kerry King talks about his Zakk Wylde Wah [@ 11:09]

"I'm running a Zakk Wylde Wah... it's nastier [than the Cry Baby]."

During an interview w/ Premier Guitar for their Rig Rundown series an MXR ZW44 Berzerker Overdrive can be seen [@ 11:09] on Kerry Kings pedal board.

During an interview w/ Premier Guitar for their Rig Rundown series an MXR Flanger can be seen [@ 11:10] on Kerry Kings pedal board.

The CAE MC-403 can be seen at 10:50 in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown with Kerry King.

At 11:05 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar, Kerry King discusses his Rack Wah. He says “We have the Rack Wah, which I have out there as a back up. The cool thing about this Rack Wah is you can run 6 pedals into that and just have pedals like Kirk Hammet does when he’s playing. He’s got Wahs all over the place because he’s running one of these. But I only do that in one song which we’re not playing right now. I’ll have a way set up on Gary’s side so we can double lead over there. But it’s versatile, you can have a million sounds coming out of it, there’s presets, there’s dials you can dial in the way you want each preset so it’s a really cool piece.“

Kerry King uses an MXR KFK, according to Dunlop's website.

According to Dunlop's website, Kerry King uses an MXR ZW38 Black Label Chorus.

Kerry King's gear includes an MXR Smart Gate Noise Gate, according to Dunlop's website.

"Its signal goes through an MXR Smart Gate Pro and then through a Crybaby rack." - Warren Lee, guitar tech de Kerry King.

Jamesound mentions in this blurb that Kerry uses a MXR Cry Baby KFK.

The 2nd pedal on the bottom

Kerry King’s pair of Shure UR4D’s can be seen at 10:45 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar.

On Radial's website, King was mentioned as a user of Radial Phazer.

Kerry King states that he uses Dunlop .010–.046 strings at 5:45 in this video interview from Premier Guitar. “My C# is .010–.046.”

Kerry King states that he uses Dunlop .009-.042 strings a 5:42 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar. “All my D# tuning is 009–.042”

Kerry King states that he uses Dunlop .010–.056 strings for B at 5:48 in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown.

Kerry King uses his signature Dunlop strings, according to Dunlop's website.