Floods amp settings — Line 6 Spider 2 HD75

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider 2 HD75 with a Jackson JS32 Dinky. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic clean arpeggiated intro/verse section

Original rig

Randall RG-100ES solid-state head, Washburn Dime 333 with Bill Lawrence L-500XL bridge pickup, Furman PQ-3 parametric EQ, MXR 6-band EQ, chorus/flanger/phaser effects

Shimmering clean with subtle modulation, warm low-mids, glassy highs with reverb depth

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider 2 HD75

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Spider 2's Clean channel is voiced brighter and thinner than Dimebag's Randall solid-state clean. Rolled treble back to 6 (vs original's 6.5) to avoid ice-pick highs. Mid pushed to 5 to compensate for the Spider's scooped-by-default voicing. The original used external chorus/flanger—without pedals, the Spider's built-in modulation effects are too aggressive for this tone, so reverb alone carries the ambient depth.

PRO TIPUse your picking hand positioned over the neck pickup for a softer attack—Dimebag's clean tone on Floods relies on letting notes bloom slowly with volume swells; if your Spider has a built-in chorus effect at a very low depth setting, try it subtly to get closer to the studio shimmer.

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