Ty Tabor

"I played Orange amps in high school. Lately I'm playing them again thanks to Orange Amplifiers." Ty's Facebook photo from July 2014 shows him using this Orange Crush 120 Head (it's the topmost one).

Guitarist Ty Tabor of King's X is known for using the Gibson Lab Series L5 solid-state amplifier, as highlighted on Abalonevintage.

The gear Ty Tabor used to create his highly coveted tones on the first four King’s X albums — particularly the amp that was the source of his richly distorted yet surprisingly crisp and clearly defined rhythm sounds — was one of guitardom’s best-kept secrets until early 1996 when Tabor finally revealed the details. For years, guitarists guessed that Tabor played through an expensive custom or heavily modified tube amp, but actually he was using a long-discontinued solid-state Lab Series amp that was — and still is — an inexpensive bargain on the used market. The rest of Tabor’s rig was similarly modest, including budget Alesis Midiverb II and Ibanez DD200 rack effects and his beloved Fender Elite Stratocaster — a darkhorse ax from the last days of CBS’s ownership of Fender.

Ty Tabor shows off his amps in this Facebook photo from July 2014. The first head on top of the cab is the Orange AD30HTC 30W Tube Guitar Amp Head. He says, "I played Orange amps in high school. Lately I'm playing them again thanks to Orange Amplifiers."

Two Egnater M4 Modular Preamps loaded with VX, SL, Gretchen and XV modules (one M4 for backup).

"I was running it through several different amps. I ran it through a Marshall 25th Anniversary, a Marshall 30th Anniversary, a Lab Series L5, a Vox Nighttrain, a couple of smaller amps like an old ART Rules Breaker."

"I played Orange amps in high school. Lately I'm playing them again thanks to Orange Amplifiers." Ty's Facebook photo from July 2014 shows him using this Orange PPC412 speaker cab.

Recently I got something from Demeter called a VTMP-2b, which is a really classic tube microphone preamp. John Myung purchased two of those, one for me and one for him, just for working on the new Jelly Jam album. And they don't make them anymore, so he had two of them specially made for us. So, I've got a brand new one of those and it sounds amazing!

"I was running it through several different amps. I ran it through a Marshall 25th Anniversary, a Marshall 30th Anniversary, a Lab Series L5, a Vox Nighttrain, a couple of smaller amps like an old ART Rules Breaker."

In a 2008 feature on Guitar.com, it is detailed that Ty Tabor of King's X utilizes a Randall RT2/50 Power Amp, configured with 6L6 tubes on one side and EL34s on the other.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Tabor uses 3 Randall 4x12 Cabinets.

The preamp sections are tweaked for me by the people at Egnater. One of the modules I have is something that they don't sell. I have two of them. We call it the Gretchen Module because it was designed to emulate the Lab Series L5 as best as possible, and they did a really good job at getting very close on that. So, I have a couple of those and then I have a couple of Egnater EG5 preamps with a mid-boost added to them for me. Then those run into my power amp.

Ty Tabor uses Celestion Vintage 30 12'' 60-watt speakers in his Randall cabinets, as detailed in his 2008 rig setup on Guitar.com.

In the video description Ty Tabor states: "I’m running straight through an Orange Super Crush 100 and a 4x12 cab with Vintage 30s, using an SM57"

Ty Tabor is confirmed to use the Yamaha DG-1000 as evidenced by his inclusion in a Yamaha catalog, where he is specifically mentioned as a user of this amplifier model.