Floods amp settings — Fender Frontman 10g

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 10g with a Jackson Js32t king v. Studio album version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo

Original rig

Washburn Dimebag signature (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) into Randall RG100ES solid-state head, Furman PQ-3 parametric EQ, MXR 6-band EQ, DigiTech Whammy, MXR Flanger/Doubler

Aggressive, razor-sharp solid-state high gain with tight low end and doubled-tracking sustain

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 10g

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Treble	7
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Ibanez TS Mini

Clean boost to tighten pick attack and push the upper-mids before the distortion pedal

Tone 7 · Level 8 · Overdrive 0

02Nux Metalcore Deluxe MKII

Main gain source (set voice switch to modern metal voiced mode)

Bass 6 · Treble 7 · Gain 8 · Level 6

Why these settings

The Frontman 10G lacks a mid control and its tiny 6-inch speaker cannot produce Dimebag's cascading solid-state Randall roar on its own drive channel. We park the amp on Clean with low gain to prevent muddy double-gain, letting the Nux Metalcore handle the crushing saturation while the TS Mini cuts sub-bass flub and pushes the razor-sharp pick attack. Treble is dialed to 7 to recreate the L-500XL and Furman PQ-3 high-mid bite without turning piercing on the practice speaker. For the outro clean arpeggios, bypass both the TS Mini and Metalcore and play cleanly with volume at 8.

PRO TIPDimebag's singing solo sustain relied on hard pick attack right against the bridge and aggressive left-hand vibrato to keep notes blooming into controlled feedback even without a physical doubler.

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