Floods amp settings — Fender Rumble 40
The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Fender Rumble 40 with a Epiphone Les Paul Studio. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)
Washburn Dime 333 (Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup) → Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ → MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ → Randall RG-100ES solid-state head
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Bass | 7 |
| Treble | 8 |
| Master | 6 |
01Boss DS-1 Distortion (or any high-gain distortion)
RECOMMENDED — not owned. The Rumble 40 is a bass amp with no gain control and clean-only voicing. A high-gain distortion pedal is mandatory to achieve this tone.
Your Fender Rumble 40 is a bass amplifier with no gain stage or overdrive capability — it cannot produce distortion on its own. The original tone used a high-gain solid-state guitar amp with scooped mids (mid at 4/10) and aggressive treble/presence. On the Rumble's flat bass/treble EQ, bass is pushed to 7 to preserve low-end chunk, treble to 8 for bite. A distortion pedal is the only path to this tone on this amp. Your Les Paul's humbuckers are hotter than Dimebag's Washburn bridge pickup, so pedal gain can sit at 9 instead of maxing out.
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