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Dimebag Darrell

Dimebag drove his Randall amplifiers with two deliberately opposed EQ stages, controlled the resulting noise with a rack gate and placed the wah last before the amps.

Board
Vulgar Display of Power core path
Context
Studio and live core rig
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Source-described
Scope
Core signal path
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
4 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Vulgar Display of Power core path

Artist-described signal order

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Source-described order · Serial path

Dimebag directly gives the order as Furman PQ-4, blue MXR six-band EQ, Rocktron Hush 2-B, Cry Baby and amplifiers. Guitar World's later gear history independently explains how the parametric EQ made a broad cut and the MXR restored a narrow mid band while both boosted the amp input. The documented MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler is excluded from this core path because neither source fixes its insertion point for the 1992 rig. Amplifiers and switching utilities are omitted.

Cited sources

  1. Guitar WorldDimebag Darrell: Home of Deranged
  2. Guitar WorldDimebag Darrell: Reinventing the Squeal