Floods amp settings — Behringer Gm108

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Behringer Gm108 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic clean intro into heavy riff

Original rig

Washburn Dime 333 with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup into Randall RG-100ES solid-state head, Furman PQ-3 parametric EQ and MXR 6-band EQ in front, chorus for clean sections

Scooped aggressive high-gain with tight low-end and searing upper-mids on distorted sections; warm chorused clean on intro

Amp settings — Behringer Gm108

CHANNELOD (Overdrive)

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Distortion Pedal (Boss DS-1 or similar)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. The GM108 cannot reach Dimebag's tight high-gain saturation alone. A DS-1, MT-2, or similar distortion pedal is essential. With this pedal: set amp to Clean channel, gain 2-3, and let the pedal provide all dirt.

Tone 6 · Level 7 · Dist 7

Why these settings

The Behringer GM108 is an 8-watt practice amp with limited gain and a small speaker that cannot reproduce the Randall RG-100ES's tight, aggressive saturation. Maxing the OD channel gets you partway there but remains loose and fizzy compared to original. A distortion pedal into the clean channel is the only way to approach Dimebag's chunk. Treble raised slightly vs original to compensate for the GM108's darker voicing; mid scooped harder because the small speaker already lacks low-mid definition.

PRO TIPDimebag's attack came from picking hard directly over the bridge pickup with the pick angled sharply — this adds the percussive 'chink' on palm-muted chugs that defines the Floods riff. Your Jackson's humbuckers will get you close; dig in aggressively.

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