Cemetery Gates amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

The Pantera guitar tone for “Cemetery Gates”, dialed in for a Vox Pathfinder 10 with a Harley Benton Telecaster. Studio version, Cowboys From Hell (1990) — distorted riff/verse sections, not the clean intro

Original rig

Dean ML 'Dean From Hell' with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup → MXR Six-Band EQ (V-scoop) → Randall RG100ES solid-state amp (distortion channel). Clean intro used Roland JC-120.

Tight, aggressive, scooped-mid metal crunch with razor treble and solid low-end thump — the quintessential '90s groove metal attack

Amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	7
Mid	3
Treble	8
Presence	0
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Pocketmaster (Tube Screamer-style overdrive)

This pedal IS your gain source. Crank drive hard — the Pathfinder stays clean, the Pocketmaster provides all the dirt. Tone rolled up to compensate for the Tele's brightness being different from Dime's hot ceramic humbucker.

Drive 8 · Tone 7 · Level 7

Why these settings

The Pathfinder 10 is a single-channel clean amp with no dirt — amp gain stays at 2 (just past clean) while the Pocketmaster handles all distortion. Dimebag's tone was heavily mid-scooped via external EQ, so I've dropped mids to 3 (the Pathfinder is already slightly scooped like most Vox-voiced amps). Your Telecaster's single-coil bridge is bright and thin compared to Dime's hot humbucker, so bass is pushed to 7 and tone knob rolled to 8 to add body. This will get you in the ballpark, but the Pathfinder's 10-watt speaker and clean headroom mean it won't have the chest-punch of a cranked Randall stack.

PRO TIPDimebag's pick attack was violent and precise — use a thick pick (1.0mm+), anchor your palm lightly on the bridge for tight muting, and dig in hard on the downstrokes. The tone is as much in the hands as the gear.

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