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Cowboys from Hell amp settings — Marshall MG50FX

The Pantera guitar tone for “Cowboys from Hell”, dialed in for a Marshall MG50FX with a Tagima Tg510 tw series. Studio album cut, Cowboys from Hell (1990) — signature main riff

Original rig

Dean ML (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) -> MXR 6-Band EQ / Furman PQ-3 -> Randall RG100ES solid-state head into Randall 4x12 cab

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

Amp settings — Marshall MG50FX

CHANNELOD-2BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	7
Mid	3
Treble	8
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

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Signal chain

01M-Vave Multi EFX (TS-style Overdrive Block)

Used in front of amp input as a clean boost to tighten bass and push high-mid bite

Drive 1 · Tone 8 · Level 9

02M-Vave Multi EFX (Noise Gate Block)

Essential to clamp the extreme gain and keep the staccato riffing dead silent between chugs

Threshold 7 · Decay 2

Why these settings

The Marshall MG50FX has no presence control and naturally carries a British mid-hump compared to Dimebag's Randall RG100ES, so mid is pulled down to 3 while treble is pushed to 8 for that razor-edge cut. The OD-2 channel provides the heavy solid-state clipping, tightened up by running the M-Vave overdrive block as an EQ-shaping front boost with gain near zero and level high. Bass is set at 7 to recreate the low-end thump without flubbing the MG50's single 12-inch speaker.

PRO TIPDimebag's attack came from aggressive picking near the bridge with an ultra-stiff pick and the high-output ceramic bite of an L-500XL; dig hard into the strings right beside the bridge saddles to force out maximum harmonic aggression.

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