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High gain gear for Metal

What Metal 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

MXR Flanger

MXR

used by Dimebag Darrell

Abasi Pathos Distortion

Abasi

$189.99via Reverb

used by Tosin Abasi

Friedman BE-OD Deluxe

Friedman

$229.49via Reverb

used by Tosin Abasi

Krank Krankenstein

Krank

used by Dimebag Darrell

Laney GH100TI

Laney

used by Tony Iommi

Mesa/Boogie JP-2C John Petrucci Signature 60/100-Watt

Mesa Boogie

used by John Petrucci

Port City Pearl Head

Port City

$3625via Reverb

used by Tosin Abasi

Randall Century 200

Randall

used by Dimebag Darrell

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