Cemetary Gates amp settings — Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212

The Pantera guitar tone for “Cemetary Gates”, dialed in for a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Cowboys from Hell (1990) — clean intro/verse riff

Original rig

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

Glassy, mid-focused clean with solid-state clarity and subtle reverb — almost acoustic-like shimmer

Amp settings — Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212

CHANNELClean (Normal input)BRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	2
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Nux MG-101 (Acoustic Simulator or EQ block)

Use the acoustic simulator patch or a clean preset with mild EQ boost at 800Hz–1kHz to replicate the Furman PQ-3's mid-presence shaping. Run into amp's clean channel.

Level 6 · Body/Low 4 · Top/High 5

Why these settings

The Randall RG100ES is a solid-state amp with tight, scooped cleans; your Hot Rod DeVille is tube-driven with natural warmth and more low-end bloom. Pushed mids to 6 (vs Randall's flatter response) to recover Dime's mid-forward clarity. Rolled treble back to 5 because the DeVille's 6L6 tubes and bright Fender voicing add sparkle the Randall lacks. Your Strat's single-coil neck is thinner than Dime's '59 humbucker, so bass stays conservative at 4 to avoid mud, and tone knob at 7 tames the quack.

PRO TIPPick closer to the neck with the fleshy part of your fingers or a thinner pick to get that pillowy, almost acoustic attack Dime had on the intro arpeggios — the tone is as much about soft pick attack as it is EQ.

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