Floods amp settings — Sonicake Pocket Master

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Sonicake Pocket Master with a Schecter C-1 Hellraiser. Studio version, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) — iconic solo

Original rig

Washburn Dimebag signature (Bill Lawrence L-500XL) into Randall RG100ES solid-state head, Furman PQ-3 parametric EQ, MXR 6-band EQ, DigiTech Whammy, MXR Flanger/Doubler

Aggressive, razor-sharp solid-state high gain with tight low end and doubled-tracking sustain

Amp settings — Sonicake Pocket Master

CHANNELHigh-gain US solid-state/metal modelBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	3
Treble	8
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01EQ Block (MXR 6-band style)

Scoop 800Hz-1kHz mids while boosting upper-mid bite and tight low end

Low 6 · Mid 2 · High 8

02Delay Block (Analog / Tape)

Set subtle slapback/short delay to replicate the studio double-tracked width

Time 5 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

Why these settings

The Schecter C-1 Hellraiser carries hot active EMG pickups, which provide immediate compression and aggression similar to Dimebag's Bill Lawrence L-500XL, allowing amp gain to sit at 7 instead of being pinned. Dimebag's signature Randall tone relies on razor-sharp solid-state treble and heavily scooped mids via outboard parametric EQs; cut the mids on your Pocket Master's EQ block to 3 while keeping treble prominent at 8. Clean intro: switch to the neck pickup and roll guitar volume down to 6 with amp gain lowered or on a clean patch.

PRO TIPDimebag's screaming squeals rely on aggressive vibrato and hitting precise artificial harmonics on the G and B strings directly over the bridge pickup aperture using an ultra-stiff pick.

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