Floods amp settings — Line 6 Spider V 20 mk 2

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider V 20 mk 2 with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio album version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo tone

Original rig

Washburn Dime 333 / ML (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) -> Furman PQ-3 -> MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ -> Randall Century 200 II Solid-State Head -> Randall 4x12 Jaguar cabs

High-gain, razor-sharp solid-state saturation with mid-boosted preamp front end scooped at the power stage, smooth sustaining decay, and studio delay/reverb

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider V 20 mk 2

CHANNELClean voice (flat platform into Spider V 20 front input)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Valeton GP-100: EQ Block (Parametric EQ)

Placed before the amp block to simulate Dime's Furman PQ-3 pushing upper-mid grind into the preamp

Low 5 · Mid Freq 8 · Mid Gain 8 · High 7

02Valeton GP-100: Amp Model Block (US Higain / Soloist)

Acts as the primary high-gain solid-state/lead engine; mid scoop dialed on the amp model EQ

Gain 8 · Bass 7 · Middle 3 · Treble 8 · Volume 7

03Valeton GP-100: Delay Block (Analog / Tape Delay)

Post-gain delay (~450ms) for the signature spacious, singing solo sustain

Time 6 · Feedback 4 · Mix 4

04Valeton GP-100: Reverb Block (Hall Reverb)

Simulates the deep studio room ambience of the Floods outro

Decay 6 · Tone 5 · Mix 3

Why these settings

The Valeton GP-100 acts as your full preamp and multi-FX engine, so the Spider V 20 is kept on its cleanest setting with flat EQ to avoid double-gain muddiness. The pre-gain parametric EQ block boosts upper-mids (around 1.5-2kHz) while the amp model scoops overall post-gain mids to recreate Dime's signature razor-sharp Randall bite. With your Les Paul's passive humbuckers having less ultra-high treble bite than an L-500XL, keep the guitar tone wide open and push high-end treble on the modeler. Clean intro: bypass the Valeton drive/amp blocks and play through the clean channel with light delay/reverb.

PRO TIPDig in with hard, angled pick attack near the bridge to accentuate harmonic squeals, and use wide, fast vibrato on held notes to keep the sustaining notes singing through the delay trails.

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