Rex Brown's Amplifiers
Rex Brown, bassist for Pantera, Down, and Kill Devil Hill switched to Samson/Hartke products in 2013. Larry Hartke sent him the Hartke Kilo Bass Amp and Rex Brown has used this head at every performance since. This photo from SamsonTech.com is a promotional Hartke shoot of Rex with his new rig.
The Hartke Kilo is a 1000 watt, Hybrid Tube Stereo Bass Amp featuring a 10 band graphic equalizer.
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This photo shows bassist for Pantera, Down, and Kill Devil Hill, Rex Brown performing live. The photo shows him using 2 Ampeg SVT bass cabinets . The one of these on the bottom standing nearly shoulder height to him is the Ampeg SVT 810 Bass Cabinet.
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The photo shows the SVT-VR Reissue 300 watt all tube bass heads behind Rex Brown, the bassist for Pantera, Kill Devil Hill, and Down. The 4 input jacks are a dead give away.
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This video from SkullsNBones.com features Rex Brown, known for playing bass guitar for Pantera, Kill Devil Hill, and Down, with his brand new touring rig. The majority of his equipment is now gear given to him from Larry Hartke. This video shows him playing through a Hartke HyDrive 810 Bass Cabinet. The spacing between speakers 3 and 5, as well as 4 and 6 shows that this is not in fact 2 hydrive 410 cabinets stacked, but the big 810 itself. This Hartke HyDrive 810 is a 2000 watt beast featuring half paper, half aluminum cones.
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This photo shows Rex Brown with an Ampeg SVT 3 Pro bass amplifier head. Also pictured is Sean Yseult from White Zombie, providing context for the setting.
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In this video at 13:34 is is said that Brown used two Randall RBA-500 ES Amp Heads, he wound run each of these Heads through one 4x10 Cabinet and most likely one 1x15 cabinet.
This setup was used until the relese of "Cowboys From Hell" in 1990.
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In this video at 13:49 Brown says around 1990 he used two Ampeg SVT-Pro Amp Heads run through 8x10 Cabinets, the number of these 8x10s went up or down depending on the size of the venue they played which was around 2-6 cabinets.
This setup can be seen in the video for "Cowboys From Hell".
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Behind Rex we can see four amp stacks. The top cab in each stack is a Warwick WCA 208 LW.
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Deleted instagram photo showing the SVT4Pro beneath the pedal tray.
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