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Cowboys from Hell amp settings — Fender Frontman 20g

The Pantera guitar tone for “Cowboys from Hell”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 20g with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Main riff & rhythm, Cowboys From Hell studio album cut (1990)

Original rig

1981 Dean From Hell (Bill Lawrence L500XL bridge pickup) -> Furman PQ-3 / MXR 6-Band EQ -> Randall RG100ES solid-state head

Aggressive, razor-sharp solid-state high-gain with scooped mids and tight low-end attack

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 20g

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	7
Mid	3
Treble	7
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion

Set Turbo Mode to I (standard DS-1/solid-state hard clipping). Running direct into amp clean input.

Level 7 · Tone 6 · Dist 9 · Turbo 1

Why these settings

The Frontman 20G drive channel gets flubby at high gain, so the Boss DS-2 in Turbo I serves as your primary solid-state distortion source into the Clean channel with amp gain parked low. On your Squier Strat single-coil, the amp bass is bumped to 7 and the DS-2 tone is kept around 6 to recreate Dimebag's thick low-end crunch without single-coil shrillness. The Frontman 20G faceplate features a 3-band EQ with no presence or reverb controls, so those are nulled.

PRO TIPDimebag's attack is defined by heavy, ultra-precise palm muting right against the bridge saddles with a stiff, pointed heavy pick to get that rhythmic, percussive chunk.

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