10's amp settings — Marshal MG 50DFX

The Pantera guitar tone for “10's”, dialed in for a Marshal MG 50DFX with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)

Original rig

Randall RG-100ES solid-state head, Washburn Dime 333 with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup, Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ, MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler, Rocktron Hush noise gate

Aggressive scooped-mid high-gain with tight low end, searing highs, and doubled thickness

Amp settings — Marshal MG 50DFX

CHANNELOD2 (highest gain channel)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	9
Bass	7
Mid	2
Treble	9
Presence	8
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for controlling noise at this gain level. Run guitar → NS-2 input, NS-2 send → amp input.

Threshold 6 · Decay 3

02TC Electronic Mimiq Doubler (or similar chorus/doubler)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Dime's MXR 126 Doubler was always-on to thicken his tone without obvious modulation. A subtle chorus at low mix can approximate this.

Dry 10 · Effect 4 · Tightness 7

Why these settings

Your Strat's single coils output significantly less than Dime's Bill Lawrence L-500XL humbuckers, so I pushed gain to 9 (vs his amp's ~8.5) and bass to 7 to compensate for the thinner low-end. The MG's OD2 channel is mid-forward compared to the naturally scooped Randall, so mids are dropped to 2 to get closer to his signature scoop. Treble and presence stay high to retain his cutting attack.

PRO TIPDime picked extremely hard with a heavy pick (1mm+) and attacked the strings close to the bridge for maximum tightness and definition. Without this aggressive picking technique, even perfect settings will sound soft. Dig in hard and palm-mute tightly for the chunk.

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