The Guitars of SLAYER - South Of Heaven era Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King gear revealed.
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Notes I used for this video:
Jeff Settings on JCM800:
Pre on 7
Bass 10
Mids 7
Treb 6
Master 1.5
Gain 10
On the album it states Slayer plays B.C. Rich Guitars. He was spotted playing a rich bitch, Warlock and a mockingbird in the 80's among others.
Jeff used 1986 Marshall Jcm800 2203
BOSS Rge-10 confirmed by Jeremy
On the heniken baffle amps they are reissue 2203 with Kt88 power tubes. He had multiple made, less than 20.
Before the Jackson he used Gibson Les Paul modified with a Kahler Pro tremolo and a Joe Barden Two/Tone Humbucker bridge pickup
King’s rig on Reign In Blood was (I think) Marshall 1960 4×12 cabinets.
Boss 10-Band EQ with the sliders set in an upside-down “V” shape,
King old JCM800 settings: Bass between 4-6, Mids around 8, Treble around 6-7, and Presence around 7. His preamp gain is set to 8-9 with his master
Kerry King signature amp settings:
Gate 3.5
Assault 4
Switch?
Treb 3.5
Master 4.2
Pre 7.3
Pres 4.7
Bass 5.6
Mid 5.4
Jackson wouldn’t give Jeff an endorsement so he spent $2000 on it. He only had one JACKSON!!
1980's Jackson soloist Jackson
Bought in 1988 for $2000 - it featured a 24 fret neck-thru design [maple neck with poplar wings], ebony fretboard, and a Kahler Model 2315 Flatmount Tremolo. The guitar originally came with passive pickups from Jackson’s shop [typically this would mean a J-50 and a J-80] and featured a mid-boost circuit. Soon after Hanneman got the guitar, he put EMG 81s in and removed the mid-boost circuit. He also changed the locking nut from a Kahler style to a Floyd Rose style sometime in the early 90s.
South of Heaven
They actually discussed slowing down
Jeff's last album when it came to writing every song. Kerry wasn't as involved and it's his least fav album.
Kerry King talking about his old JCM800 "the beast"
“That amp hasn’t been modified in any way, shape or form,” Bowcott says. “It’s completely stock. Component drift and tolerance deviations have made that amp something special and-as Kerry sometimes says-the ‘golden child’ when it comes to his trademark tone. Back in the Eighties, you couldn’t enforce the sort of tolerances that we demand from our suppliers today, which is plus or minus one percent. Back then, the plus-or-minus percentage was much higher. As a result, Kerry’s amp sounds different from a lot of other JCM800s made in the mid Eighties.” Originally supplied with a quartet of 6550 tubes, King’s Marshalls are beefed up with heavier duty KT88 tubes. “They have a nice, fat low end that Kerry loves,” Bowcott says. “Those tubes add a lot to his vibe and make his sound even bigger.”
While Marshall’s Slash and Zakk Wylde signature amps were essentially reissues of the original JCM 2555 Silver Jubilee and JCM800 2203 heads, respectively, the Marshall 2203KK JCM800 Kerry King head is a unique new product. “This is an exact duplicate of the Beast,” Bowcott says. “It’s a much more aggressive animal than our current 2203 reissue, which is based on the early Eighties circuit.”
“Part of the secret to the Slayer sound is what Kerry and Jeff do to the front end of their amps,” Bowcott says. “Kerry used his 10-band graphic EQ to push the front end of the amp harder. What’s interesting is that 99 percent of players out there think that you need to scoop the mids out to get Slayer’s guitar tone. Kerry does the exact opposite-he boosts the mids. A scoop is a smile,” he explains, referring to the shape of a scooped-mid EQ curve. “You can’t have a smile when you’re playing Slayer’s music! His EQ curve is a fairly radical frown, which makes more sense.”
This Marshall had his RGE-10, dialed in to the exact EQ curve that he uses.
• You can either add more or less of my tone,” adds King. “You can’t adjust all 10 EQ bands individually. My chunk comes from those boosted mids.”
Marshall Mode IV cabinets.
Gibson Explorer during the band's early days. Rich Bich model he bought off his bandmate Kerry King His first Bich, DiMarzio Super Distortion pickups. He also used a B.C. Rich Ironbird. B.C. Rich Gunslinger
In 2000, Hanneman switched to ESP guitars
• Kahler Pro bridges
• Dunlop .009-.042 Strings
• D'Addario .009-.042 Strings (earlier)
EffectsEdit
• Shure Wireless System
• Eventide H3000S Harmonizer
• Yamaha SPX-90 Effects Processor
• Rocktron Super C HUSH
• MXR Smart Gate
• BOSS RGE-10 (10 band EQ) - เพลง
I love it when bands who normally go kind of fast slow down- Morbid Angel, Nile, etc. have some awesome slow, crushing songs
Agreed. Mesmerized by Celtic Frost is my fav of thiers
@@CIRCLEOFTONE Totally- slow CF is the shit. Oh man, the version of Procreation of the Wicked that Tryptikon does is so heavy haha
Man yeah like God of Emptiness by Morbid Angel after listening to Maze of Torment. First two songs on my daily pre work commute playlist for like a month now, funny you mention them.
@@jeradrhone8773 I love the contrast- like right after Dominate it slams right into Where the Slime Live- that contrast is so goddamn heavy, I love it
My favorite Slayer songs are the slow and mid-tempo tracks(such as "Dead Skin Mask", "Seasons in the Abyss", "Divine Intervention", "Expendable Youth", "Beauty Through Disorder", etc. Those songs have a powerful darkness that the fast songs lack in my opinion.
Yep. It's so evil and crushing.
GEMINI. That somes up what your saying. Bostaphs fills are so nasty. I love that tune.
Love playing those songs something about them that puts me into this mood when play them everything clicks and I'm in a different state of contentions at that point its like my 3rd eye opened
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i completely agree i am a huge fan of leaving space between notes and brooding atmosphere. i love the bangers etc but i also love a great build up. i mean its always fucking slayer lol. and this guy is right they used to go into the writing process with ideas then rehearse the shit out of those ideas and build on them, and then record the album. so in this new era of recording its fucking crap. when i last recorded shit i recorded on a fostex 4 track. it fucking sounded awesome i thought i was james hetfield lol. alas i turned out to be a skilled slave. anyway i digress.the thing was to catch the magic of the people together and not just the parts that make up a song.
South of Heaven is a masterpiece. Some of the best drums ever recorded. I always think they show perfect comedy timing too.
Most Powerfull album...
Comedy?
@@GordonHeaney Yeah I think their timing is funny, eg the feedback bridge into Silent Scream. Best not to take Slayer too seriously IMO.
Lombardo never been equaled
100% agree ...
Slow Slayer is more evil. Hell awaits is a great example; the beginning of that song is slow and it’s diabolical. South of Heaven is a perfect album. No filler. Live Undead is probably my favorite song on there. The tempo changes, multiple riffs, and drum chaos is amazing.
I always liked South of Heaven the most, my friends who were Reign in Blood supremacists thought I was crazy, but when Slayer slows down then pure evil starts to churn and they gain like an another level of heaviness. This video turned out amazing man, worth the wait! :D
im exactly the same, except Seasons was my favorite album by them.
Absolutely! hail Satan and his minions .
I started with Seasons, then South of Heaven THEN Reign in my teens and thought RIB was the most mental album I'd ever heard (I was 14 in 93) then, when I came back to it later, I just thought it was slopppppppyyyy!
Just when I thought I was out, they pull my back in
Our true enemy, has yet, to reveal himself...
Jeff and Dave are the sound of Slayer. Jeff wrote all the best riffs and defined the sound of Slayer. Not surprised Kerry hates it
Incredible and overdue episode! Yes, slower Slayer is better. The music had room to breath and came off powerful.
Thanks man! Agreed.
It's a corollary to the loudness wars: if there is no slow, there is no fast.
Especially compared Slayer's later works. Super aggressive, yes, but it just becomes a blur of monotone, lacking the visceralness of the South of Heaven era.
@@quintessenceSL yep. Add modern mastering and when everything is huge, nothing is huge. I talk about it here th-cam.com/video/YCoqAjrGOo8/w-d-xo.html
I am a Bostaph fan. It's kind of popular to diss him in some circles. I dont feel that liking Bostaph means I dont like Lombardo, both great drummers. Slow Slayer is my favorite.
Awesome episode. Jeff in my eyes was Slayer
I discovered Slayer in the 8th grade when Reign in Blood was released and I warped my mind in such a beautiful way. been a metal head ever since
Glad to see you in it. I was wondering for awhile.
Great Video as always !! Thanks Owen for the awesome content
Man, you seriously nailed the tone here, fantastic video as always Owen.
Amazing tone! well recorded! 👍👍👍👍
So glad to have you back.
Great video and I'll spread the message!
Missed you, big man. So good to see another from you.
Thanks man!
That Godflesh name drop was just icing on this video
Hehe. I did a vid on Godflesh guitars a while back: th-cam.com/video/jWmYkeRoRPA/w-d-xo.html
Can you do a deep dive into DOWN someday? I feel like that first album "NOLA" is an absolute masterclass of an album.
That would be a good one
@@CIRCLEOFTONE
There's not a ton of info about what exactly was used on that album in detail. But from what research I was able to find in DOWN forums back in the day and from interviews with Guitar Magazines was that Pepper Keenan and Kirk Weinstein both used their respective live rigs from their own bands, plus a few Marshalls and other miscellaneous amps that Phil Anselmo had in New Orleans. Pepper Keenan was primarily using Gibson SGs and a Les Paul with P90s into Mesa Boogie .50 cal+ and a Marshall cab. Kirk was using Explorers with a boss metal zone as a boost into solid state Randall's. I'm not entirely sure what Marshalls were used or what any of the other amps used for layering were.
@@Forests0fFantasy mostly Peppers 50 cal+ i think the Marshall was a 2203 Super Lead
It definitely is.
First album is definitely a work of art. Everything after is super meh for me. But that first one...
Always enjoy your vids, great work again
Thanks man
Owen, Great to see and hear from you, Great job as always on diving into the sound of these bands. Hope you keep them coming. Type O Negative weather is here in the Northeast at night.
Yeah I wish I was there for the late summer and Autumn. Florida is a gas cloud of heat right now.
Damn Bro, Looking Great! its been awhile from last check in, looking fresh crisp and still rocking! love your channel!
wow a new video nice that you make your great gear and guitar speakers videos again
This is awesome dude! Great video!
Great to see you back
I always liked South of Heaven, the slowing down made their music sound a lot less two-dimensional to my ears. Most notably were Araya's vocals and Lombardo's drums. Obviously, if you're not going a million miles an hour all the time it opens things up to be a bit more musical and melodic as well. It may not be that popular but a recreation I'd like to see/hear is Static Age era Misfits. For an album that likely cost about two-bob to make I still think it sounds fantastic.
CIRCLE OF TONE?! What year is this?! Lol glad to see you back bro, I've seriously missed your gear deep dives.
...also I'm very jealous of that sick ass Ergodyne.
Thanks man. It's a poor man's Warmouth haha. Love it.
@12:07
How did you know I needed one of your videos? Nice to see you back... although I guess there's a tone of older ones I should check out
That was very satisfying. It's not every day my favorite band of all time gets their tone recreated. Keep up the awesome work
Thanks man. Appreciate it!
South of Heaven and Seasons are my two favorite albums of Slayers. There are songs from their whole catalog that are incredible but those two albums blew me away. They felt more orchestrated and yes more wicked. Wonderful stuff, thank you.
They are so evil and creeping.
Awesome video!
Spill The Blood was always a killer track. Agree on the slow Slayer being great.
Seasons In the abyss is my favorite. Not fast not slow but groove tempo. Good to see you making videos again
It was a glorious period when all the Bay Area thrashers had hit 29-30 and finally decided to try something new. Megadeth and Metallica did some of their best stuff in the same period too.
excellent video bro, good points, i loved it when they slowed down too..
Good to see you back. I'm waiting for a reignwolf episode...even though he is not among the most popular artists his live sound is so unique
Good to see you Owen 👍.
The slow middle part of Angel of Death is my favourite Slayer riff . . .wish it was an entire song!
Maybe best metal breakdown ever
Liked, subbed, all that shit. First time I've ran across your channel, and I gotta say. The title lured me in, the slow Slayer hooked me because I believe that too, Jeff was my favorite guy in Slayer and I say the same thing about Gary Holt in the band that you said. I agree with your opinions on Kerry, and the little rant about how everything's changed was interesting as hell! I completely agree with you! Its almost like you read my mind and made this fucking video! So this was a very fortunate thing for me to run across your channel, man! Thanks for this video! 🤘😈
Great video!!!
Looking svelte and healthy there O! Glad to see you back on the scene, I'm sure you've been missed brutha.
Glad you're back! A video on Joey DeMaio from Manowars bass weirdness could be cool...🤘
I didn't understand the "cold naked beauty" comment until I saw it... now I do... now, I do.
I was watching some of your old videos recently and was thinking man, it would be cool if you did Slayer. The universe works in mysterious ways! I’m with you, I think slow Slayer is best Slayer. Glad to see you put out another excellent video!
Seasons in the abyss is my favourite slayer album , all the aggression of reign in blood ,all the musical expertise of South of heaven , in my opinion it's slayers best album .
Absolutely nailed it on the death of vibe through digital production. Cheers, mate.
Sweet medley bro!
Dude you really knock these topics and tunes out of the park man !!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟
I wasn't a big fan of slayer back in the day but I wasn't a fan of thrash when it came out so I may have overlooked their slower stuff !!!!!!!! Saw them with Priest tho 🤟🤟
This track and Seasons In The Abyss are my favorite slayer tunes
Great insight into the recording of metal music. The talent has always been there, even the experts have to agree on that, what is missing is the group dynamics. The interaction between band members. That's when the magic happens, where it lives, not on a computer program. Take out the human emotion and you get what you get. Might be good but not stellar. In my opinion you hit the nail on the head.
Dave & Jeff had groove!
25 years ago I used to use a boss bass EQ pedal In front of my Marshall to boost the mids and lows Because I was the only guitarist in the band.
Dude, you're getting shredded, look at those shoulders. Keep it up!
Back sounding great and looking good. Where the hell have you been?
I've been traveling, moving around etc with the fam.
I have to say, we were discussing this last friday, while cranking SOH..we all agree, we like the slower grinds
Nice! So many thoughts on this! XD 👍👍👍
lombardo plays such groovy memorable parts and catchy killer fills.
AH! Brother, you're back and swingin'! (and I don't mean the 'clean bits' of the video LOL). That was awesome with the Slayer 'South Of Heaven' action. I remember when that came out and I too consider it THE BEST Slayer album. Nothing like it before or after. It's like 'Don't Break The Oath' by Merciful Fate (suggest you tackle that at some point? Great guitar work there.) I agree about the DAW thing, especially running the studio. We've been doing a lot of work lately, but trying to keep everything as real and natural as possible. We don't use sample replacement, rarely use click tracks on anything we personally record, and most clients don't request them. Forget grid snapping.
Awesome to see you're doing good. I'm looking forward to more videos in the future. You need to feed those Marshalls some wattage for a bit. Oh! Besides the Merciful Fate I mentioned, how about a look at Kings X, their guitar and bass (especially) sounds? There's some fun there. They just put out a new album and it's very good. Anyway, great work! Cheers!
Good suggestions. I almost had the merciful fate gear lost but then he ghosted me. Haha
@@CIRCLEOFTONE Ah damn! That would be interesting to find out. Good to see you back and out of the gate with a really good video t'boot!
Brian G, one of your patrons, is here! Great video. Could you take a look at Diabolus In Musica? There is something inherently dark about that album and I would love to know more about the recording/production.
Fair play mate I’m a big slayer fan classic era ,Jeff is greatly missed still till this day and I think the point about daws becoming the bog standard effecting that raw band dynamic is spot on.
Fantastic video. Loved it. Agree with so much. Love all Slayer albums. South of Heaven and Seasons is my favorites though.
Bro, awesome shirt!
Yeah I love it. Looking forward to the new evil dead movie.
12:08 What a great point you make right here
This is awesome!!!!!!!!!
Jeff was the best RIP
Killer! Great vid!
South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. When is came out we were floored at how up front the drums were in the mix.
Reign in Blood is their masterpiece. Their Sargent Pepper.
Great demo. Nailed their tone. Totally agree - Slayer slow just feels so much heavier & interesting than flat out speed. Cool vid - tks
4:42 the tan face JCM 800 Jeff is with proudly belongs in my collection.
Awesome
Great video. Been waiting on this one for a while. Would also love to see a tone recreation of S.O.D.'s monster tone on Speak English...
Yeah that's on the cards.
Scott used a Marshall JCM800, some TC Electronics distortion pedal, a Jackson Randy Rhoads with a Floyd Rose, and a Gibson Flying V. Both guitars have Seymour Duncan JB's. Danny used some Acoustic amp with Scott's TC Electronic pedal. He never said what bass he used but I'll assume it was a Rickenbacker because that's what he used primarily at the time.
@@gavin6666 I know the gear he used, I would just love to see a tone match video. To get close the settings as possible.
Seasons on the Abyss is my favorite album and South of Heaven is very good too.
South of heaven is my fav Slayer album hands down
The early Tame Impala record from 2012 is recorded on Boss BR-864 . There is a lot of info about that . "Innerspeaker" is great sounding album recorded in a very cheaply way . These Boss digital recorder feature a kind of synthic effect which became also part of Tame Impala's tone , f.e. on "Alter Ego" , "Why won't you make up your mind"
Great cover, think your tone is thicker than on the album. I never really got to grips with the guitar tone on this album, I thought it was a bit thin compared to Reign....
When you said "naked", I didn't think you meant literally. Lol
Drink it in hehe
@@CIRCLEOFTONE I definitely had to drink something strong after seeing that, especially the creepy grin. Lmao.
What your are saying is so true. Thanks.
Great video, these are always fun.
Also, was the "naked riff" section added to flex all the gains you've been making? Looks like you've been hitting the heavy weights as well as the heavy riffs. Congrats man.
I've been going as heavy as I can at 50.hehe.
I don’t know if I missed it but what speakers do those 1960 Marshall cabs had in the 80s? I’m not familiar with Marshall cabs and I think speakers are a big influence in the tone.
Back then they were usually g12t-75 but I don't have proof of that one.
Dude! Awesome vid. Loved the rant! I feel the same way, things in the 'mainstream' metal are too polished, too on the click... We need a little mud, some sludge and filth! 🤘🏼 That rant perfectly complements goes with your RAT pedal video.
Thanks for your content!
I couldn't help but think about the nude piano player in Monty Python!
Glad to have you back on yt and also to see you do Slayer.
I've lost count of how many times I've had to try to correct other guitarists who think Slayer's sound was scooped, only to be ignored.
Haha. Laughed out loud at that python ref. Loved that sketch.
South and Seasons have always been my favorites. Always thought too much praise was thrown on Reign, although lately been revisiting it and the production is way better than I remember and so are the songs, like Postmortem. So it all just goes in a circle for me.
Nice to see ya back at it! Always look forward to you content, just wish you finally clone yourself a few times so we could get more!
Congrats of getting into better shape! That's not easy in our age group.....I'll try to take some inspiration from that. I have a little one too, won't be able to legally have a drink with until the mid 60s so it's time to get after some better health on my end too.
I play a lot of acoustic for the baby, he crys of I play semi loud electric. Please do a video on heavy acoustic riffs, I need to sneak some good tone into his brain.....apples and bananas isn't going to cut it haha
Yeah getting into shape after I hit 50 is hard. Gains can be gone with three days of eating bad. Boring lifestyle but has to be done.
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I love the fast and slow slayer. They are at their beat when they do the mid tempo grooves and have parts that speed up and slow down.
I could not agree more with you on King! Thank you Owen!.. the solos of Slayer are as much of a middle finger as the rest of it!
Great video man, South of heaven is the best Slayer album no doubt. We loved your final rant! As a band we recorded our albums live in the same room in a day., for the same reasons you say in this video. We are MAGMA a power trio of Dark Hard Rock from Mallorca (Spain) Keep it up man! Rock on!
That's why I love to listen to audience live recordings. Musician playing together and the audience reacting.
Spill The Blood is a perfect example. Groovy and evil as hell.
The Return of The King!
Off beat question...is that a Rectoverb combo behind you? If yes , I have one myself ..one of my "Never Sell" amps....love it so much I bought a version 1 Rectoverb head
Yep. My fav are the 50 Watter rectos. It gets a bit stupid on the triple rectos to get a sweet spot.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE I have a Single Recto head also....I am a Mesa lover and have had a few different models but have the ones I mentioned and also a Dual Rec Multi watt and Triple Rec .... Still think the Single Rec
(50w ers ) are SuPeR underrated
That click is like a drug, the kids can't get off it now!
Click Cocaine
Well said.
12:12 I don’t like it when he makes eye contact and smiles
Too true about metal/rock becoming too nice. What happened to the bad ass lead guitarist of the '70's. How many times have I read in comments sections people slagging off EVH calling him an asshole thanks to Hagar's constant bitching. Or Ace Frehly being drunk, unreliable etc thanks to Gene bitching that band members aren't as reliable and professional and nice and polite ike his accountants. Usually I leave a comment saying something like that's the way I like my rockstar lead guitarists drunk and badass then I cop abuse.
Good to see you back bro, keep the vids coming, the guitar community needs you.
Dead Skin Mask is probably my favourite Slayer song, sounds so different to most of their other stuff. Love fast Slayer too, but after a while the songs almost blend together.
No horse in the race. Came of age in the ‘90s and Divine Intervention is my favourite Slayer record.
I wish Kerry King didn’t put tribal patterns on all his sigs.
NEW Sub! A long time ago someone asked me why I was so heavy into SLAYER.... As he handed me the bong I said, 'If I had to explain it to you my dude, you wouldn't understand.', then I took a massive toke., and cranked up the car stereo loaded with Decade of Aggression Live. Yeah, those were the days.
Great explanation of a great era created by real musicians.
This is a age of tiktok everything is expendanle almost and temporary. The era of crafted things has gone but will be back sooner or later.
True art never dies maybe slows but never dies. Cheers man. Great episode again and you nailed it !
Wow! You are truly hilarious, insightful, intelligent, well educated and skilled!!! So refreshing. Glad that you are back!
I will say that one band that rocks and blew up from the DAW generation is Rammstein. Mechanical and heavy
They were birthed from the likes of Laibach, Ministry etc
Yep I'm suprised industrial isn't bigger now since it had so much in common with EDM.
Not necessarily. It depends on the song. Psycopathy Red, Unit 731, Angel of Death, War Ensemble, Jesus Saves, Silent Scream, Hell Awaits - all examples of fast slayer songs that are brilliant. Live Undead starts off at a slow pace but gets extremely fast at the end. One of my favourite songs to drum along to. So slow Slayer isn't necessarily better. It's a perspective that depends on the taste of the individual listener and what they're in the mood for.
Well, that's something I didn't expect to see today.
I AGREE....MY OINION of course but I love ALL slower metal than the faster stuff...slow steady head banging...GREAT video dude....love South of Heaven