Kerry King's Studio Equipment

In an image from Guitareuromedia, Kerry King is shown using the Rocktron HUSH Super C Noise Gate 19" 1 HE/U, highlighting its role in his gear setup.

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Kerry King’s Radial JX44 can be seen at 10:45 in this Premier Guitar Rig Rundown.

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Kerry King’s Furman AR-PRO can be seen at 11:00 in this Rig Rundown from Premier Guitar.

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On Radial's website, King was mentioned as user of Radial JD7.

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The JDX captures my sound with previously unobtainable control and clarity, offering our soundman a direct injection of sonic rage!... "Radial gear is incredibly roadworthy and has improved my overall tone. I get less hum and buzz and a cleaner signal. Awesome! Radial gear rules.

King about Radial JDX and Radial gear.

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Kerry King uses the Radial Engineering JDX 48 Guitar Amplifier Direct Box, as noted on Radial Engineering's website by Ben Chudyk.

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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.“

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In this tour of Kerrys Rig you can see the Smart Gate Pro.

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

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In an image from Guitareuromedia's gallery, Kerry King is shown using the Rocktron Patchmate Loop 8 MIDI Channel & Loop Switcher, highlighting its role in his gear setup.

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In a 2002 GuitarGeek rig rundown, Kerry King of Slayer is noted to use the Rocktron All Access MIDI foot controller as part of his guitar setup.

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In the studio footage for the last Slayer studio album, you can see the Distressor working in the background while Kerry is tracking at 1:16

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