Tom Araya's Bass Amplifier Heads
"Yeah, I just use Marshal stock heads. There's nothing really special about them," says Tom Araya, at 13:02.
He says he likes their "brightness and punch" at 13:12.
In this video at 1:10 Tom explains that he was using a Marshall 1992 Lemmy Kilmister Signature Amp for recording the "Repentless" album, and at 1:28 you can see a Marshall 1992LEM Amp behind him.
Tom Araya is reported to use the Ampeg SVT-4PRO 1200-Watt bass amplifier head, as mentioned in a forum post on TalkBass.com, which references the May 2002 issue of Bass Player Magazine.
Picture from the early to mid 80s. Ampeg SVT Head visible in front of the Drum set.
According to this forum post the info was in May 2002 issue of Bass Player Magazine. Apparently he used 2 of them as backups for hsi SVT-4 PROs.
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