are there any amps out there that would give me a tone similar to that of dimebags tone on the great southern trendkill? i know obviously a randall warhead but is there anything out there that would give me a similar tone? i dont even want to think about a krank

I would say many of the Randalls from the last decade would get you close. I think its a myth that to get Dimes tone you have to use Deans/ Dimebucker and Krank. As far as I know he never recorded anything with Pantera using that setup, maybe Damageplan but not before that. Maybe check out the Randalll RG100ES.

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Any decent hi-gain amp will get close, maybe not perfect, but close. Just eq it properly.

Most high gain solid state amps can get into that realm of tone...

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It doesn't even need to be solid state though. I had a 5150 and used an GE-7 to and got pretty close in that range. I've had same results with a Mesa.

A Randall Cyclone will nail Dimes tone perfectly. It's basically a Warhead without the effects, but it still cost and they are pretty rare. I think Randall stopped making them for a while because it was shitting all over the V-max sales.

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I have a warhead.

It doesn't sound like that.

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I would imagine that some solidstate pedals might do it too. Dime liked bees.... Nah but seriously his tone is quite edgy and trebly so something like a MT-2 or that new Metalcore pedal might get close. I have no idea what your budget is here though so that advice might sound terrible.

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a friend of mine was using a really old ibanez rg with a bill lawrence xl500 pickup, going into some dodgey krank amp and a mesa 2x12, and his sound was very pantera esque,

I was really impressed with the bill lawrence pup though, sounded really defined, however it was a bit to trebly for my liking

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