Cemetary Gates amp settings — Blackstar Fly 3

The Pantera guitar tone for “Cemetary Gates”, dialed in for a Blackstar Fly 3 with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, Cowboys from Hell (1990) — clean intro/verse arpeggio section

Original rig

Dean ML with Seymour Duncan '59 neck pickup → Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ → MXR 6-Band EQ → Randall RG100ES solid-state (clean channel, subtle spring reverb)

Warm, chimey clean with pronounced midrange clarity and subtle room ambience — not chorused, drier than people assume

Amp settings — Blackstar Fly 3

CHANNELClean (ISF at 12 o'clock — neutral, slightly American-leaning)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	4
Presence	0
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Mooer GE200 — Parametric EQ Block

Emulates the Furman PQ-3 midrange focus — boost 800Hz-1kHz region slightly, cut highs to tame Strat brightness

Low Gain 4 · Mid Gain 6 · Mid Freq 5 · High Gain 3

02Mooer GE200 — Room Reverb Block

Very subtle — this is studio ambience, not obvious reverb. Keep it dry-sounding.

Mix 2 · Decay 3 · Tone 5

Why these settings

Your Strat's single-coil neck pickup is brighter and lower-output than Dimebag's humbucker '59. I raised mids +1 and dropped treble -3 vs the original Randall settings to compensate for the Strat's glassiness. The GE200's EQ block replicates the Furman's midrange push. The Fly 3's small speaker compresses naturally — keep gain low to preserve note separation in the arpeggios.

PRO TIPPick closer to the neck joint (not over the soundhole area) with the fleshy part of your fingertip or a thin pick held loosely — Dimebag's clean attack on this track is soft and rounded, not snappy. Let the notes bloom rather than digging in.

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