Floods amp settings — Irig Hbd

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Irig Hbd with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic clean outro solo

Original rig

Dean ML / Washburn Dime 333 with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge humbucker, Randall RG-100ES solid-state head (clean channel for outro), MXR Flanger/Doubler (subtle), volume pedal for swells

Warm, glassy clean with subtle modulation bloom — emotional weight from phrasing and vibrato, not gain

Amp settings — Irig Hbd

CHANNELClean (or lowest gain amp model available)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The iRig HD is a direct interface with no amp modeling — you'll need amp sim software (GarageBand, AmpliTube, BIAS FX) set to a clean Fender or Randall-style model. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than Dimebag's L-500XL humbucker, so I dropped treble -1 and pushed mid +1 vs original to add warmth and body. Neck pickup with tone rolled to 7 approximates humbucker smoothness. Gain stays very low (2) — the original outro is nearly clean, relying on touch dynamics.

PRO TIPThe magic of this solo is volume swells and vibrato control — if your software has a noise gate, turn it off so note decay rings naturally; roll your guitar volume knob down between phrases for the signature swell-in effect Dimebag used.

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