Floods amp settings — Deviser Tg-40r-mic

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Deviser Tg-40r-mic with a Bansid Double rocker. Studio album version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo tone

Original rig

Washburn Dime 333 / ML (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) -> Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ -> MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ -> Randall Century 200 II Solid-State Head -> Randall 4x12 Jaguar cabs

High-gain, razor-sharp solid-state saturation with mid-boosted preamp front end scooped at the power stage, smooth sustaining decay, and studio delay/reverb

Amp settings — Deviser Tg-40r-mic

CHANNELOverdrive Channel

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	7
Mid	4
Treble	8
Reverb	5
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; place in front to sculpt Dimebag's signature razor attack

100Hz 7 · 200Hz 6 · 400Hz 3 · 800Hz 4 · 1.6kHz 7 · 3.2kHz 8

02Digital Delay (DD-3/DD-7 style)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; set to roughly 380-400ms to achieve the soaring solo ambience

E.Level 5 · F.Back 4 · D.Time 5

Why these settings

The Deviser TG-40R is an analog solid-state practice amp with an onboard spring-style reverb, which actually matches Dimebag's solid-state clipping character better than a tube amp would. Push the drive channel gain to 8 while cutting the mid to 4 and raising treble to 8 to approximate the PQ-3 mid-frequency spike and scooped Randall voicing. Adding an external graphic EQ and digital delay pedal in the future will bridge the remaining gap for the iconic solo wash.

PRO TIPUse heavy, aggressive pick attack close to the bridge with the edge of a rigid pick, and let your vibrato rely on wide, slow left-hand oscillations combined with subtle whammy bar flutters to mirror Dime's signature singing sustain.

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