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  3. /Grunge
  4. /High gain

High gain gear for Grunge

What Grunge artists actually play that sounds high gain, ranked by how many of them use it

Also called lots of gain, heavily saturated, tons of gain, distort, distorts, distorted, distortion, fully distorted

EVH 5150 III

Evh

used by John 5

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head (Multi-watt)

Mesa Boogie

$1999via Reverb

used by Kim Thayil

Peavey VTM-120

Peavey

used by Kim Thayil

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

Boss

$89.43via Reverb

used by Kurt Cobain

Bogner Fish Preamp

Bogner

used by Jerry Cantrell

Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive

Boss

$59via Reverb

used by John 5

EVH 4x12 Cabinet

Evh

used by John 5

Marshall 1959T Super Tremolo

Marshall

used by Mike McCready

Marshall 1960 4x12 Cabinet

Marshall

used by Mike McCready

Mesa/Boogie Studio Preamp

Mesa Boogie

$1031.42via Reverb

used by Kurt Cobain

Mesa/Boogie Trem-o-Verb

Mesa Boogie

$1700via Reverb

used by Kim Thayil

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