Floods amp settings — Fender Fender champions ii 25

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Fender Fender champions ii 25 with a Lyon by Washburn Stratocaster. Studio album version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo tone

Original rig

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

High-gain, razor-sharp solid-state saturation with aggressive upper-mid bite, scooped core, and ambient space

Amp settings — Fender Fender champions ii 25

CHANNELMetal voice (Voice selector set to 2000s Metal)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	9
Bass	7
Treble	8
Reverb	5
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Parametric / Graphic EQ (e.g. MXR 6-Band EQ)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Boosts upper-mid bite into the front input while scooping the boxy lower-mids to capture Dimebag's exact pre-distortion EQ curve.

100Hz 6 · 200Hz 4 · 400Hz 3 · 800Hz 2 · 1.6kHz 7 · 3.2kHz 8

Why these settings

The Champion II 25 has only 2-band EQ (no mid control) and no presence knob, so set the Voice control to the high-gain Metal voice to replicate Dime's aggressive solid-state clipping. On single coils, max the treble to 8 and push bass to 7 to compensate for the lack of a high-output Lawrence humbucker while keeping low-end weight. The onboard FX is set to a hall/reverb blend to mimic the cavernous studio decay of the solo.

PRO TIPDimebag's pick attack on the Floods solo relies on striking hard with a heavy pick right next to the bridge saddles for maximum harmonic bite and sustain during the wide vibrato bends.

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