Floods amp settings — Spider V 20 Line 6

The Pantera guitar tone for “Floods”, dialed in for a Spider V 20 Line 6 with a Yamaha Pacifica 112V. Studio version solo, The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)

Original rig

Randall Century 200 / RG100ES solid-state heads, Furman PQ-3 / PQ-4 parametric EQ, MXR 6-band graphic EQ, DigiTech Whammy, Dean ML with Bill Lawrence L500XL humbucker

Saturated, scooped high-gain solid-state lead with razor-sharp treble bite, extreme sustain, and ambient delay/reverb

Amp settings — Spider V 20 Line 6

CHANNELInsane amp model (Clean channel bypass for DS-1 pedal gain)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	7
Mid	2
Treble	9
Reverb	4
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Primary gain source into clean amp model; captures Dimebag's razor-sharp solid-state clip

Tone 8 · Level 7 · Dist 9

Why these settings

Dimebag achieved his signature hyper-scooped, abrasive lead tone using high-gain solid-state Randall heads with aggressive parametric EQs boosting 5kHz and heavily cutting 800Hz-1kHz. To prevent muddy double-gain, the Spider V 20 is set to run clean at low gain, leaving the Boss DS-1 to provide the sharp clipping edge. The Yamaha Pacifica's bridge humbucker is voiced slightly lower-output than Dime's hot Bill Lawrence L500XL, so the DS-1 Distortion and Tone are pushed high while scooping the amp mids to 2.

PRO TIPFor the iconic climax squeals at the end of the solo, strike pinch harmonics aggressively near the bridge pickup while using wide vibrato, or use a whammy/tremolo dive to replicate Dimebag's pitch-shifted two-string harmonics.

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