King, Kerry (Kerry King)

Kerry King (Kerry King) was born June 3, 1964 in Anaheim, a suburb of Los Angeles. In 1982 he organized a group Slayer, which, along with Metallica is the founders of the direction Thrash Metal. In 1983, Kerry repeatedly at concerts helped Megadeth, had trouble finding a second guitarist.

C early 80's, Kerry plays guitar BCRich.

Main guitar Kerry BCRich KKV. This black V-shaped instrument with a maple body and maple neck with a cross-lining of ebony, 24 frets marked with diamonds. Scale Length 245 / 8.

Maple shell provides the most hard aggressive sound with a failed middle, underlined the low frequencies and a huge amount of squealing high harmonics. Through the neck softens the sound and in combination with a rigid lining of black wood provides a long melodious susteyn. All guitars Kerry found Kahler Pro tremolo system.

This docile machine with great progress in both parties popular in the 80 years, has several advantages over Floyd Rose. To install it, you want to remove a smaller amount of wood, a massive bed rigidly attached to the body, providing better transmission of vibrations of strings in a tree. Kahler has a softer turn, allows more deeply shook both sides, and better keeping system. But because of the complexity of design, this system did not take.

To achieve maximum distortion Kerry uses the most powerful pickups, EMG-81 in combination with preamplifier EMG P-92. At grifhead decorated like a model Assassin installed splitting Grover with higher gear ratio 1:18. Kerry uses strings D'Addario .009 -. 042.

At concerts, Kerry also uses dvuhgrifovuyu version of this guitar KKDBLV red with black blotches, equipped pickups Seymour Duncan Blackback.



Another model, which uses Kerry is KKV Tribe. It is similar to the model KKV, and differs from it only design grifhead (based on a model with two-way arrangement Widow headstock), colors (black with red or blue patterns), and inlaid fingerboard.



In 2000, Bernie Rico Jr.. produced for Kerry guitar KKWAR Tribe. This model has a body design Warlock. B otherwise it repeats the model KKV Tribe.



In the mid-80's, Kerry also played on BCRich Assassin. On its basis ESP signature model produces another Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman (Jeff Hanneman). Also, ESP, produces red with black copy of the divorce KKV

. Kerry uses the work of the following equipment: graphic equalizer BOSS RGE-10, . Preamp Bogner, . noise reduction system Rocktron Hush II, . Bob Bradshaw switching system, . harmonizer Eventide H3000S, . Column Marshall 4x12 "speaker with a Celestion G12,
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Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman from the early 80's use the same amps Marshall JCM-900. They both preamp Marshall JMP-1 and the pedal Dunlop crybaby. And the same wireless system Samson.