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Floods amp settings — Mooer hornet Hah

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Mooer hornet Hah with a Yamaha Pacifica 112V. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo tone

Original rig

Washburn Dime ML (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) -> Furman PQ-3 Parametric EQ -> 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 — Mooer hornet Hah
CHANNELOD-2 / High Gain channel
GAIN 8 BASS 7 MID 3 TREBLE 8 REVERB 5 MASTER 6
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain8
Bass7
Mid3
Treble8
Reverb5
Master6
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Mooer Hornet Built-in Delay

Onboard digital delay effect

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Level 4

02MXR 6-Band Graphic EQ

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

100Hz 7 · 200Hz 6 · 400Hz 3 · 800Hz 4 · 1.6kHz 7 · 3.2kHz 8
Why these settings

The Mooer Hornet's high-gain solid-state modeling provides the tight, aggressive clipping of Dimebag's Randall Century without tube sag. The Pacifica's Alnico V bridge humbucker is lower output than the razor-sharp Bill Lawrence L-500XL, so gain is pushed to 8 and treble to 8 to restore pick attack bite. Mid is pulled back to 3 to simulate Dime's signature EQ curve directly on the amp faceplate. Clean intro/outro: switch amp to Clean channel, tone knob at 8, onboard reverb at 6.

PRO TIPDimebag's singing vibrato relies on aggressive wide-pitch left-hand shakes combined with hard pick-hand attack right next to the bridge saddles for maximum upper-harmonic sizzle.

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