Kerry King's Gear

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Picture of Kerry King in the 80s using an MXR M-117 Flanger.

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you can clearly see him playing his dean signature guitar here

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Used by Kerry according to this old Capture of the Marshall website.

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

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

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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As of late october 2019, Kerry King has moved on to an endorsement with Dean guitars after being with BC rich for so long.

"I'm super stoked to be part of the Dean Guitars family. This has been an insane long time coming! Together we're going to create some amazing guitars that Dean, Slayer, and Kerry King fans will be as excited as I am to play them. It's gonna be a wild ride for years to come!

Kerry King"

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A faithful emulation of the Kerry King Signature amplifier, Marshall 2203KK a.k.a. “The Beast” Two studio setups and one live stage setup recorded respectively by producer Terry Date and FoH engineer Chris Paccou Over 25 finely tuned Kerry King-inspired presets that define the sound of Kerry King

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In this photo https://www.gitarrebass.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Slayer-Kerry-King-im-Interview-effekt-rack.jpg of Kerrys rig you can clearly see it. The articel is in german unfortunately.

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Kerry King uses the Celestion G12K-100 100W 12" Guitar Speaker, as highlighted on the Celestion website by Geoff Howorth.

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The Guitargeek Rig Diagram from 2002 shows Kerry King of Slayer using the Nady 950GS in his live sound 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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According to his GuitarGeek Rig Diagram.

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Screenshot from Kerry Kings Softube Plugin. The picture shows the micing of his live cabs.

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The picture shows Kerry Kings studio cab/mic steup for repentless, as cpatured for his Softube signature plugin. See also this article: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/18-Amp-Simulator/6127-Marshall-Kerry-King-Signature

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The picture shows Kerry Kings studio cab/mic steup for repentless, as cpatured for his Softube signature plugin. See also this article: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/18-Amp-Simulator/6127-Marshall-Kerry-King-Signature

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"Guitar rigs for Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman have the same treatment: dual Radio [sic] JDX DIs, two PR 40s and two PR 31s."

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"He gets his aggressive crunch, overdrive and sick lead tones from the EMG 81, EMG 85 and the PA2 Gain Boost Switch that makes up his signature EMG KFK Set."

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"The A/B switch takes me from my crunch sound to my clean tone. Basically, it switches from my Marshall 2203s to a direct injected signal."

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In this tour of Kerrys Rig you can see his JX-2 Pro. Best shot at about 2:00.

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Tour of Kerrys new signature Dean guitar, his Kahler system is mentioned at 1:08. You can also see Kerrys signature engraved into the Trem system.

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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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Kerry plays a Mode Four at this promo event.

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In an interview featured on B.C. Rich Guitars' YouTube channel, Kerry King mentions that he started playing guitar on a Gibson ES-175.

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From the November 2009 issue of Guitar World magazine:

Q: Kerry, what were your first Instruments? Kerry King: [...] My dad had a Gibson ES-175 [...] and I learned to play on that for a while. He also had a Fender 1963 L Series Strat with a tobacco sunburst finish.

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From the November 2009 issue of Guitar World magazine:

Q: Kerry, what were your first Instruments? Kerry King: [...] When I started doing shows, I had a Fender Super Showman.

Also visible in the background on this Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQr0BUipuE0/

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