Dimebag started using Krank amps around 2004. On stage, he used three Krank Revolution heads, connected to 2 cabs each, loaded with Eminence Texas Heat speakers. This is the first tube amp that Dime used, or intended to use regularly, as all of his previous amps were solid-state.
Apparently, Dime saw one of Krank amps somewhere and decided to contact to company and see if they’d be up for a collaboration.
I told the old lady, I said give them a ring and see if they wanna shoot one out to me to check it out, to see what’s going on with it. Odly enought, there it was. I plugged it up, and I was like “god damn”.
Because you see, I never played tubes before. A lot of people always thought that my old sound was tube becasue it was worm. I just – every tube amp I ever played I could never get enough gain. (But) when I plugged into the Krank, it was like I’m getting the warmth and the shred your fu*king face off – whats going on?
Dimebang Darrell at Krank Amps, 2004
A few weeks before Dime was shot, Krank produced his own signature amp called “The Krankenstein”, which Dime got to use only a few times.
No, Constantine.. You are incorrect!!
Dimebag only used one Warhead for clean tones (with PanterA). The amp didn’t come out the way he had hoped. He only used the cabs. The heads were just there for looks. He was really using his RG100HT’s up until the end of PanterA.
By the time Damageplan recorded their album, Dime was mainly using Titan heads. In an interview, he said he just used an X2 into a 1×12 ISO cab, but he later said he actually used an X2, a Titan, a V-Max, and an RM100M, using an ISO cab AND his Warhead cabs.
Live, he used 2 Titan heads (for his main “wet/dry” amps), an X2 (for “over the top” gain), and 2 RM100M tube heads (all going into his Warhead cabs). On-stage, there were X2 heads on top of the cabs (often stacked on top of original Warheads… also just for looks). Even with PanterA, Dimebag never used the heads on stage. He always kept his amps backstage (with Grady) in a large case, with his rackmount gear (and pedals) on top of the amps.
Once he switched to Krank, he used 3 modded “Rev1” heads (2 for his “wet/dry” sound, and 1 for “Clean”) and 6+ cabs, depending on the size of the venue (and I’m sure at least half of them were “dummy cabs”).
*Nobody said he didn’t use Krank amps. The guy was just saying what Dime was using before Krank, including Randall tube heads.. (and you’re wrong about the Warheads actually being used).
Dime actualy never got to use his Krankenstein live. They made him 2 silver ones and the day they were going to ship them to him, he was shot the night before. Got the story from Jeromy Graves at Krank when I was endorsed with them. I got to play those amps at the Krank Factory just as they finished them.
With Damageplan, Dime used a Randall RM100 head, along with an X2, and 2 Titan heads. The RM100 was what first got him interested in tube heads.
This is incorrect.
Dime was using 8 Randall Warheads with Damage Plan until around September 04. After that Dime was using 2 Krank Revolution Heads with Damage plan going into 2 Krank Revolution cabinets loaded with Eminence Texas heat speakers.
You can find a photo of the Cabs he was using the night he was shot in this Video https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/look-back-murder-dimebag-darrell-and-alrosa-villa-shooting/530-b81743cc-f7a7-445c-8f6a-4b8de589823c
Nobody said he wasn’t using Krank amps when he passed.. It’s common knowledge for Dime fans.